General Counsel

• Local Counsel for companies seeking to do business in Georgia.
• Hybrid Corporate/Legal actions involving policy projects, forecasting, governance, AI, VUCA type Black Swan realities, "Smoothing the Waters" diplomatic matters, "Rapid Prototyping" matters.
• Automated projects involving contract drafting and execution, discovery, business process logistics.
• Regulatory response including DEI/employment, Environmental, white collar crime, ESG - Environmental, Social, Governance issues.
• M&A Strategy, Board Risk Oversight projects.
• Social Media, BYOD policies, Employee Privacy.
• Automated projects involving RIM (Record and Information Management), RFPs, Cybersecurity and Encryption matters. 
• Software and Artificial Intelligence testing and rollout.

Transactions

• Preliminary negotiations and term sheets.
• Due diligence and associated memoranda.
• Asset and stock purchase agreements, merger agreements and related documents.
• Leases and related real estate documents.
• Financing agreements.
• Legal opinions.
• Closings and post-closing issues.

Intermediary Services

• Funding source shopping and negotiation including bank loans, venture capital, private equity and angels; business plan drafting, editing and updating.
• Assisting in shopping for, researching and negotiating with potential acquirors of the company's stock or assets.
• Shopping for, researching and negotiating with potential target companies.
• Shopping for, researching and negotiating with potential business partners desirous of strategic alliances.
• Alternative Dispute Resolution representation, arbitrations, mediations.
• Employee, independent contractor, vendor, customer and shareholder negotiations.
• Landlord, landowner, tenant or neighbor negotiations.
• Governmental or regulatory negotiations with federal, state or municipal authorities or agencies.

Capitalization

• Private placements, debt and equity subscriptions and associated certification.
• Securities Act and Securities Exchange Act issues and research.
• Funding agreements with banks, venture capitalists, private equity firms and angels.
• Structuring classes of debt and equity, stock repurchases.

Governance

• Corporate action, consents, board and shareholder meetings.
• Foreign/Alien corporation certification.
• Proxy statements and voting issues, minority shareholder issues.
• Organizational structure (org chart) issues, subsidiaries, short-form mergers, rollups.

Operations

• Local counsel for foreign corporations doing business or seeking to do business in Georgia.
• Support services for local corporate counsel, both on-site and remote.
• Employee manuals, employee agreements, noncompetition agreements, termination agreements, confidentiality and trade secret agreements.
• Vendor/vendee contracts, Commercial agreements, U.C.C. issues, licensing agreements, strategic alliances, many other types of agreements and structures.
• Federal and Georgia State and municipal regulatory issues associated with operations.
• Litigation prevention, insurance issues.

Litigation

• Document review and memoranda.
• Drafting - briefs and research memoranda.
• Litigation support services.

Research

• Researching Georgia state, federal and municipal law and drafting associated memoranda.
• Researching any legal question and drafting associated memoranda.