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We counsel emerging companies in connection with protecting valuable intellectual property, securing equity and debt financing, negotiating technology licenses and joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, crafting tax and deferred compensation strategies, resolving employment issues and responding to the threat of litigation. Our lawyers understand the opportunities our clients need to take advantage of and provide quality, cost-effective solutions that help emerging companies cope with the human and financial challenges of rapid growth.
Our entrepreneurial clients often enter transactions with much larger enterprises, many of which are represented by large law firms. Through our extensive deal experience, we enable our clients to negotiate on a level playing field. Our strong commitment to best-in-class client service ensures we provide effective representation regardless of the complexity of the matter at hand.
In today’s fast-changing business world, clients value a global outlook as much as global experience. We work with many Israeli technology companies in all stages of development and are committed to the success of Israeli and U.S. companies seeking to do business in each other's countries. We help global companies tap the capital markets, complete M&A transactions and seek investors through attorneys in our Tel Aviv office, as well as our U.S. offices. We leverage our experience on both sides of the Atlantic to help clients advance their objectives with maximum efficiency—whether it's raising venture capital, negotiating an M&A transaction, forming a joint venture or listing a company on Nasdaq.
We represent numerous international funds and family offices in their investment into Israeli start up companies. We also act as underwriter’s counsel in public offerings of both U.S. and Israeli companies traded on Nasdaq or the NYSE. But we do more than just provide legal services; we build business bridges for our clients, connecting them with the right players and the right resources to gain a competitive edge. With locations in the U.S., Israel and the United Kingdom, we provide completely integrated, cost-efficient legal services.
Drawing on business acumen based on years of experience and countless transactions, our attorneys understand an emerging growth company’s business needs and constraints, and act as partners in growth with our clients. Entrepreneurs look to us for sound business advice. We know the issues that may arise and pass along the benefit of this experience to our emerging company clients. Whether the issue involves structuring advice on a financing, a potential strategic alliance, a thorny tax issue, a problem with stock options, a recalcitrant ex-employee, the threat of litigation or a liquidity event, we have been there before.
We are seeking long-term partnerships with our clients and can advise them along the way as they mature. We have helped companies grow at every phase, from start-up to profitability to public company. Whether through a merger, acquisition, or initial public offering, we have helped many successful clients realize the fruits of their labors. We have represented clients in mergers, acquisitions, and consolidations, both public and private, in transactions valued at less than a million dollars to greater than $10 billion, and we have guided clients, both domestic and foreign, through initial public offerings and follow-on offerings on all of the major stock exchanges.
Our representation of start-up businesses includes reviewing business plans and meeting with founders; identifying and introducing financing sources, collaboration partners, qualified candidates for management positions and outside consultants; mediating and documenting relationships among founders; structuring the transfer and protection of intellectual property; providing guidance on the formation of an effective board of directors, as well as strategic advice at board meetings; and advising on the establishment of equity incentives. As our clients mature, we help negotiate licenses of intellectual property; document joint ventures, alliances, and other relationships; lease real estate and equipment; assist with wealth and estate planning; resolve disputes; counsel on growth by acquisition strategies and advise on all types of financing strategies and liquidity events, including Regulation D and Regulation S private placements, PIPEs and public offerings.
We represent regional, national, and international venture capital firms, family offices and Angel and other investors that invest in early-stage companies across a range of industries, most notably in software, telecommunications, therapeutics, medical devices and fintech. We help these investors deal with the many contingencies that arise in transactions such as portfolio investments, liquidity events, corporate governance and compliance matters, intellectual property and other due diligence-review services and assessments of complex patent portfolios and strategy. We also work with venture capital firms on fund formation and fund-raising efforts, and regularly advise institutions making investments in venture capital funds. We have negotiated investment terms with scores of venture capital firms around the world. A key strength is our ability to facilitate introductions between investors and entrepreneurs and emerging companies, particularly for technology companies founded in Israel and Ireland.
Sullivan was issuer's counsel for Chromocell Therapeutics Corporation, a clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing and commercializing new, non-opioid therapeutics to alleviate pain, in their $6.6 million initial public offering of common stock.
The Sullivan team was led by David Danovitch, director of the firm’s Corporate Department, with partners Charles E. Chambers Jr., Aaron Schleicher and associate Brian Hurley. Sullivan has developed a strength in working with entrepreneurial biotech and tech companies in the U.S. and in Israel.
David E. Danovitch, Charles E. Chambers Jr. and Brian P. Hurley
Sullivan represented Impact Analytics Inc. in its $5.5 million growth financing round led by Argentum Capital Partners. The company unites artificial intelligence with human validation that brings machine learning to the forefront of data-driven business decisions.
Lewis N. Segall and Johanna Colpritt
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