We represent all sizes and types of companies as well as individual investors in a variety of financing transactions, including public offerings, private placements of equity and debt, and secured and unsecured loan transactions. 

Our Business Law Group attorneys are well versed in negotiating and drafting private placement memoranda, purchase agreements, investor rights agreements, loan and security agreements, as well as other credit enhancements such as guaranties and letters of credit. 

Experienced in all stages of financing, we counsel clients from early “angel”-round financings to late-stage, pre-IPO financings.  We are equipped to handle the regulatory and securities laws issues that arise in these types of transactions. 

To represent our clients in the full range of financing transactions, and to help them achieve both their short-term and long-term financing goals, we strive to understand our clients’ underlying businesses and to anticipate the operational issues that typically arise.  We are also experienced in bankruptcy and insolvency related matters.  Our in-depth knowledge and experience allows us to anticipate problems and construct solutions in advance of any unexpected financial distress to any party to a transaction.

Representative Experience

• Ongoing representation of an investment trust focused on alternative energy companies and other clean tech industries.  Counsel includes structuring, negotiating and documenting private investment in public companies (PIPE) transactions and numerous investments in venture-stage companies, ranging from start-ups to late-round financings. Representation also includes preparing and managing the trust’s U.S. securities filing obligations and coordinating similar international filing obligations.
• Ongoing representation of a syndicator of apartment projects in a series of equity raises for acquisitions of apartment projects in Southern California totaling approximately $350 million.
• Continuing counsel to Olympic gold medalist and World Champion boxer Oscar De La Hoya. We represent him individually and Golden Boy Promotions, his boxing promotion company, in a variety of matters, including grants of equity interests to boxers and key executives.
• Represent Roland Corporation, one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of musical instruments, in structuring all of its credit and security transactions with retail dealers and financing companies.
• Counseled a private investor in a number of early-round convertible preferred financings aggregating more than $10 million.
• Represented real estate developer in negotiating and documenting construction and permanent real estate loan of $13 million for an upscale apartment complex in Panorama City, California.
• Represented a client in the offering of interests in connection with the purchase of land and construction and franchising of a hotel. Advised the client on entity structure and securities laws issues and drafting the underlying entity and disclosure documents.
• Advised a publicly-held operator of high-end health and fitness clubs in selling selected clubs that operated primarily in the East to one of the operator’s shareholders for $80 million. As part of the sale, we also represented the company in refinancing $50 million of real estate-secured debt.

For more information, please contact Jeffrey A. Krieger.