Small and global clients alike entrust С»ÆѼÊÓƵ with their most complex and critical corporate law matters. Our counsel spans the corporate life cycle, from structuring business entities to formulating exit strategies. In between, we advise clients across industries on contracts, compliance, governance, growth, investments, and other matters both pivotal and routine.
Members of our Corporate law team have deep knowledge of tax law, accounting, securities regulations, and financing. We draw on that wealth of combined knowledge as we help clients find the solutions and close the deals that move their businesses forward.
Particular areas of guidance include:
Mergers & Acquisitions
We represent buyers, sellers, private equity firms, management buyout groups, and other entities at all phases of dealmaking for high-profile corporate transactions.
Private Equity
We regularly work with funds and their portfolio companies, providing legal advice on practically all areas relevant to their operations. We have experience across the investment life cycle and also represent companies that are the targets of PE buyouts.
Securities & Corporate Governance
We guide clients through the structuring, negotiating, and documenting of capital market transactions that are critical to long-term growth, and we partner with them in evaluating and crafting solutions to the various transactional and disclosure challenges that can arise.
Antitrust Law
We provide clients with key antitrust and competition law guidance on a range of challenges and opportunities, including corporate transactions and compliance issues.
Our team helped reinvigorate the oldest United Methodist church in Kansas City through a unique transfer of assets.
С»ÆѼÊÓƵ served as buyers’ counsel in the $118 million purchase of the Plaza Vista Office Building in Kansas City.
Business Succession Planning
Capital Markets
Commercial Contracting
Franchise & Distribution
Investment Management
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)
Startups
Enthusiasm for dealmaking is growing ahead of anticipated cuts to interest rates, which could vastly improve deal flow heading into 2025.
In March 2025, the Department of Treasury suspended enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) for domestic reporting companies—see our analysis here with an April 2025 update here. The below reflects the situation as of December 2023, when the act was expected to go into effect on January 1, 2024.
With each passing day it becomes more apparent the world that entered the COVID-19 pandemic is not the world that emerged from it.
С»ÆѼÊÓƵ served as buyer’s counsel to Legacy Sports Partners in its acquisition of Vendsyssel FF, a professional football club based in Hjørring, Denmark.
Ericka Curls Bartling will join С»ÆѼÊÓƵ as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco Bay Area office, and Andrew J. Demetriou will join the firm’s Los Angeles office as senior counsel, bolstering the firm’s capabilities and presence in California.
С»ÆѼÊÓƵ is pleased to announce that Michael Brandess has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in its Financial Services & Capital Markets industry team and Insolvency & Commercial Bankruptcy and Business Succession Planning practice groups.
Working with Ashley Edwards at С»ÆѼÊÓƵ was the best experience I’ve ever had working with an attorney! She is an exceptional communicator with keen business sense who worked hard to make sure I had all the information I needed to negotiate and then close an important deal for my company.