Business &Corporate Law

Business & Corporate Transactions.  Attorneys in our business & corporate law group have decades of experience in contract drafting services, advising on the buy side and sell side transactions, including stock and asset sales and purchases, merger transactions, and other business combinations. While this experience includes larger transactions involving 8 or 9-figure amounts, we also routinely and efficiently represent smaller clients (often small, brick and mortar family-owned businesses) in the purchase or sale of businesses involving smaller dollar amounts. Our goal is to provide all of our clients, large and small, with sophisticated, value-added legal services at a fair cost, regardless of the size of the transaction. 

Contract Drafting and Contract Review. Our attorneys frequently assist with the drafting and review of a variety of contracts encountered by our clients on a day-to-day basis, including, without limitation, sales agreements, application development agreements, non-disclosure agreements, joint venture agreements, and licensing agreements. In addition, we are often called upon to create bespoke agreements with specific terms and conditions that are unique to our client’s business or the business deal they are trying to consummate.   

Partnership Disputes & "Business Divorce" Matters.  One of the defining characteristics of CWD is the multi-disciplinary approach and skill set of our attorneys. Our transactional and dispute resolution attorneys regularly collaborate on a variety of shareholder and partnership disputes, having represented both individuals and businesses in matters including the issuance or response to books and records demands (under New York and Delaware law), buy-out demands, terminations for cause, minority shareholder freeze-out situations, and myriad other specific situations that require both an analysis of rights and obligations under the law and governing corporate and transactional documents and an evaluation of the merits of associated claims and defenses. While such matters are often resolved without litigation, we view "business divorces" as the ultimate "hybrid" matter where our transactional and dispute resolution attorneys work hand in hand toward a commercial resolution where possible but prepare, from day one, to litigate if necessary.   

Employment and Consulting Agreements. Our attorneys regularly represent employers and employees in the negotiation of employment and consulting agreements from "rank and file" employment agreements to more complex executive employment agreements, which typically include other contractual arrangements as part of an executive employment package (e.g., stock option grants, etc.). 

Capital Raising Transactions.  Our attorneys have represented issuers, placement agents, and accredited investors (individuals, family offices, etc.) in a variety of private placement transactions, including transactions exempt from registration under Regulation D, PIPEs transactions, and others. Such matters typically involve drafting private placement memoranda, investor packages, subscription agreements, investor questionnaires, and other documents as may be necessary depending on the terms of the transaction. Such matters have ranged from assisting clients in seed round investments to representing more mature clients in much more significant capital raises.