Commercial Transactions & Capital Markets Lawyer
Companies, underwriters, issuers, investors, and investment banks involved in capital market offerings often encounter complicated transactional structures, corporate and securities regulation issues, and disclosure and corporate governance matters, and therefore, require straightforward and strategic advice.
The commercial transactions and capital markets lawyers at Drishti Law advise on all aspects of private or public capital raising and recapitalizations.
Our experience with structuring and documenting transactions encompasses secured and unsecured credit facilities, debt and convertible securities, hybrid instruments, common and preferred stock, non-speculative derivatives, commercial paper programs, trust-originated securities, asset securitizations, mutual fund shares, tax-exempt bonds, and other transaction types.
We take the time to learn all aspects of each client’s business and pride ourselves on offering the highest quality, most efficient, and cost-effective legal solutions in the market that align with our clients’ goals.
Areas of Service
Our team of attorneys have extensive industry-specific experience in a wide array of business sectors including:
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- Biotechnology
- Clean technology
- Consumer products
- Energy
- Environmental services
- Financial services
- Gaming and entertainment
- Health care
- Insurance
- Internet and e-commerce
- Natural resources
- Railroads
- Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
- Retail
- Technology
- Telecommunications
This sector knowledge enables us to offer informed, industry-focused legal advice that is relevant to our clients’ commercial realities and strategic goals.
Support for Alternative Investment Structures
In addition to providing legal counsel in these areas, our law firm also has experience with managing hedge funds and other alternative investment structures.
Initial Public Offerings
Drishti Law provides advice on a wide variety of initial public offerings, ranging from large, prestigious offerings to smaller and mid-sized IPOs, including emerging companies. Our team partners with issuers and underwriters to help them plan for and successfully execute the complexities of going public while providing timely, experienced, practical, and strategic advice.
Our securities regulation and corporate governance lawyers are involved right from the initial stage to assist clients in planning, understanding, and complying with their post-IPO disclosure and governance obligations.
Our attorneys have broad industry experience, and we frequently work on innovative first-to-market offerings and cross-border listings that attract interest and recognition from our clients’ industry and media.
Innovation and New Products
Our law firm has extensive experience in derivatives and financial products, advising issuers, investment banks, and other participants in capital markets transactions involving embedded derivatives, concurrent derivatives components, and stand-alone over-the-counter derivatives.
Our work routinely involves offerings of convertible and exchangeable securities, equity-linked instruments, and complex debt, equity, and structured product offerings.
We also advise clients on a wide variety of transactions, including call spreads, registered forward contracts, and share lending transactions. Our multidisciplinary approach permits us to assist clients with all aspects of design, structuring, and executing innovative financial products.
Our firm has been involved in major capital markets innovation, participating in the development of equity security units, hybrid securities, perpetual notes, and other tax-efficient investment products.
High-Yield and Investment Grade Debt Offerings
Drishti Law advises clients in high-yield debt offerings in a diverse range of industries, including transactions to support acquisitions, leveraged recapitalizations, and refinancing. Our team also advises on a wide variety of investment-grade debt offerings and provides strategic advice customized to our clients’ objectives and risk tolerances.
Private Placements
Our capital markets attorneys routinely advise clients regarding private placements of equity and debt securities.
Drishti Law has considerable experience representing corporate issuers, hedge funds, government entities, and project finance participants in private offerings of any size, and are used to providing advice on private investments in public equity (PIPEs) and venture capital financings within the scope of compliance, efficiencies, and the long-term capital goals and objectives of our clients.
Other Transactions
We have a great deal of experience with other forms of transactions as part of our capital markets practice.
We are involved in the formation and operation of private equity funds for a variety of clients in the capital markets space, including sponsors, investors, and placement agents.
Further, our experience extends to all means of investment vehicles, including merchant banking and leveraged buyout funds, venture capital funds, bridge funds, “vulture” funds, and offshore funds.
We also act on behalf of highly leveraged companies and other corporate clients in transactions such as divestitures, rights offerings, financial restructurings, and recapitalizations, which may involve equity offerings, exchange offers, consent solicitations, debt tender offers, and spin-offs.
SEC Reporting & Compliance
Drishti Law has an entire team dedicated to SEC reporting and compliance focused on advising clients on the entire array of disclosure, regulatory, and corporate governance obligations under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, the Dodd–Frank Act, the JOBS Act and corresponding SEC rules, as well as the listing standards of the NYSE, Nasdaq and other exchanges.
We provide straightforward and pragmatic support to senior management, boards of directors, board committees, and in-house legal and compliance teams.
This support includes day-to-day assistance in public reporting, compliance program development, duties of boards and committees of boards, and dealing with shareholders.
By working with clients on SEC periodic filings and other regulatory matters repeatedly, we develop an understanding of their business and context, which provides us with a stronger ability to provide relevant and effective legal counsel.
We are also capable of quick and effective responses to emergencies or non-standard situations, such as financial statement errors, shareholder activism, sudden CEO transitions, or government investigations.
In these circumstances, we will quickly assemble a team with the right experience and knowledge, often alongside our executive compensation and securities litigation attorneys, to offer timely, careful, and coordinated strategic assistance that is suited to the gravity of the situation.
Hire the right team of Commercial Transactions and Capital Markets Lawyers for your Company
At Drishti Law, our capital markets and commercial transactions lawyers apply deep industry experience to provide practical, results-based legal services to our clients through every stage of commercial and financing activities.
Whether you are completing a complex capital markets offering, negotiating a strategic commercial agreement, or executing a transformational transaction, our law firm provides clear, responsive, and tailored service.
With a client-first mindset and a proven record across sectors and markets, Drishti Law is your strategic partner in providing effective legal support in today’s rapidly changing capital markets and commercial landscape.
If you have questions about this topic, please reach out to Drishti Law at 773-234-1139 for a complimentary consultation. Our experienced Commercial Transactions and Capital Markets lawyers are here to guide you every step of the way, helping you secure a lucrative deal while ensuring compliance with all legal requirements.