Corporate

Lawyers in the Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Corporate Practice have the broad knowledge, diverse skills and seasoned perspective needed to identify and resolve the complex legal and business issues that arise in our clients’ transactions.

Our Practice encompasses mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, public and private debt and equity offerings, institutional lending, securitizations, leveraged leasing, structured finance, start-up and venture capital financing, leveraged buy-outs, joint ventures and other strategic alliances, real estate finance and partnership tender offers and roll-ups.

Structuring Transactions

We work as a team with our clients and their other business and financial advisors to structure their transactions to meet tax, accounting, and regulatory requirements while satisfying long-term business objectives. 

Buying and selling businesses 

We represent buyers, sellers, intermediaries and management teams in all manner of mergers and acquisitions.  Our lawyers have experience in public tender offers and mergers, private sales, corporate divestitures, leveraged buy-outs and industry consolidations.

Shaping securities offerings and investment funds

We represent issuers, underwriters and others in connection with public and private offerings of equity and debt securities.  We counsel publicly-held companies and their investors on Securities and Exchange Commission filings, disclosure and compliance matters.  And we advise on the formation, regulation and operation of public and private investment funds (domestic and offshore).

Guiding emerging growth companies

We take pride in our track record in launching and supporting new companies: choosing the best form of entity for the enterprise, addressing governance and management issues and all manner of general corporate and securities matters.  We can also help source early stage, venture capital and later stage financing from among our many contacts in the financial community nationwide.  We have extensive experience working with growing technology, internet and e-commerce companies, helping them address the challenges of intellectual property protection, licensing and commercial agreements, employee retention and growth financing.

Acting as outside general counsel 

We frequently act as general counsel and advisors to companies and their boards of directors, handling both day-to-day matters and significant transactions, assisting with regulatory filings and compliance matters, and preparing and negotiating all manner of contracts.  Our corporate lawyers work with clients to access other Firm resources in many areas, including: 

• antitrust
• creditors' rights and bankruptcy
• customs and international trade
• employment and labor relations
• employee benefits and executive compensation
• environmental law
• FCC and telecommunications
• franchising, licensing and distribution
• intellectual property - patents, trademarks, copyrights
• litigation
• real estate
• trusts and estates

Clients and industries

We serve Fortune 500 companies and other large multinational corporations, middle-market companies, investment banks and asset managers, emerging growth companies, institutional investors and individual entrepreneurs in industries that include:

• advertising
• apparel, footwear and textiles
• automotive components
• aviation
• banking and consumer finance
• business services
• computer hardware and software
• consumer electronics
• distribution and logistics
• entertainment and media,including sports, movies, video, television, radio, publishing, recorded music and stage productions
• interactive entertainment and new media
• Internet and e-commerce
• financial services, hedge funds, investment companies and advisers, broker-dealers and futures commission merchants
• health care
• insurance and risk management
• investment banking
• manufacturing
• real estate
• hotels and hospitality
• telecommunications