Corporate

Sullivan's Corporate Group integrates and delivers comprehensive corporate legal services to domestic and international organizations in all stages of development. For mature multi-billion dollar corporations, privately held companies and start-ups alike, our skilled lawyers have handled numerous highly complex transactions.

Our work for clients ranges from mergers and acquisitions and public securities offerings, to joint ventures/partnerships and shareholder agreements, to private equity and venture capital investments, to public and private debt financings, to general corporate and commercial agreements and corporate governance. In collaboration with our highly skilled tax, real estate and intellectual property lawyers, our Corporate Group finds customized solutions to help our clients meet their business objectives. Our lawyers work together in small, multi-disciplinary teams, emphasizing close client-partner contact and collaboration.

Representative Client Work

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Represented Government Properties Income Trust, a real estate investment trust which primarily owns properties majority leased to government tenants and office properties in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. market area leased to government and private sector tenants, in its $1.4 billion acquisition of First Potomac Realty Trust, a self-administered, self-managed real estate investment trust focused on owning, operating, developing and redeveloping office and business park properties in the greater Washington, D.C. region
• Represented Iron Mountain Incorporated, a storage and information management company, in a number of transactions, including its acquisition of Cornerstone Records Management; its $2 billion acquisition of Australia-based Recall Holdings; its disposition of assets in the United States and Canada required by its acquisition of Recall Holdings Limited; and its $380 million sale of its online backup and recovery, digital archiving and e-discovery business to Autonomy Corporation
• Represented Senior Housing Properties Trust, a real estate investment trust that owns independent living and assisted living communities, continuing care retirement communities, nursing homes, wellness centers and medical office, clinic and biotech laboratory buildings located throughout the United States, in a $112.4 sale-leaseback transaction with Five Star Quality Care, Inc., a national senior living communities and services provider
• View the full Mergers & Acquisitions practice description here

Capital Markets

• Office, government properties, senior living and hotel REITs in raising tens of billions of dollars in public and 144A offerings of common equity, straight and convertible preferred equity and senior and convertible debt
• Ongoing disclosure, governance and listing advice to public companies, including public and 144A equity and debt offerings
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Private Equity

• Represented a private equity fund in its $140 million acquisition of a public software company
• Represented a European private investment fund as lead in a $17.3 million Series C financing round for U.S.-based medical device company
• Represented Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund as lead in a $25 million Series B financing venture round for a U.S.-based cleantech company
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Emerging Companies & Venture Capital

• Represented a privately held fiber optics and wireless communication sub-component manufacturer when it was acquired by a publicly traded company for $77 million
• Represented a privately held communications company when it was acquired by a publicly traded corporation for aggregate consideration of $175 million
• Secured complex source code cross-licensing arrangements for a developer of software used in the commercial real estate market
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