Our Areas of Practice
- Corporate
- Technology Transactions
- Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital
- Securities Fraud
- Corporate Governance
- Shareholder Derivative Litigation
- Corporate Takeover Litigation
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Joint Ventures and Strategic Transactions
- Antitrust
- Consumer Fraud
- Privacy
- Executive Compensation
- International Practice
- Securities and Capital Raising
Corporate
Tripp Levy maintains a broad-based corporate practice focused on delivering sophisticated solutions for businesses at all stages of development. We counsel start-up, emerging growth, middle-market and later-stage private companies operating across a wide range of industries and sectors. We are well positioned to meet the complex legal demands of businesses operating in today’s challenging global economy. We are well-known for capably and efficiently representing companies at all phases of the business cycle, from initial formation to securities and capital raising to mergers, acquisitions and profitable exits. We provide general corporate counseling and business law advice to companies on a full range of corporate matters, such as:
- Entity selection and formation.
- Capital structures and equity compensation at the executive and employee levels.
- Corporate governance, board matters and fiduciary duties.
- Tax structuring and counseling.
- Equity and debt capital-raising transactions (involving angels, venture capital firms and other institutional sources of funding).
- Mergers, acquisitions and other change-of-control events.
Merger Arbitrage
Tripp Levy PLLC has extensive experience in Merger Arbitrage. Through our merger law, antitrust, and regulatory analysis in domestic and international markets we are able to assist our clients in making a more informed investment decision.
Consumer Fraud
Tripp Levy PLLC engages in efforts to recover monies for individuals who may have been the subject of fraud, which arises when consumers are deceived by misleading statements or actions concerning a product or service.
Corporate Takeover Litigation
Tripp Levy PLLC engages in efforts to protect the interests of investors. Tripp Levy has worked extensively, and in connection with other firms, representing institutional and individual investors in obtaining higher prices for shareholders in corporate takeover matters. The firm specializes in challenging buyouts of companies in order to obtain maximum value for shareholders.
Strategic Representation in Technology Transactions
Tripp Levy works to advance companies by structuring, negotiating, and closing deals that are best aligned with our clients’ business needs and objectives. We have successfully handled a wide variety of both complex and routine technology-related commercial transactions, including:
- SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, hosting and other cloud computing agreements
- Software, content, data, patent, trademark and other technology licenses
- Partnerships, joint ventures and strategic alliances
- OEM, reseller and other distribution agreements
- Sales and support agreements
- Research and development agreements
- Collaboration and licensing agreements
- Manufacturing and supply agreements
- Consulting, outsourcing and services agreements
- Agreements for the acquisition or divestiture of technology
- Information and data confidentiality, privacy and security agreements
- Website terms and conditions, privacy policies, DMCA policies, and EULAs
Mergers & Acquisitions and Strategic Transactions
Tripp Levy PLLC has extensive experience in Mergers, Sales and Divestitures. Through our disciplined, tightly managed process, we are able to achieve favorable outcomes for our clients while maintaining confidentiality and minimizing management distraction.
Securities Fraud
Tripp Levy PLLC engages in efforts to recover monies from investors who may have been the subject of Securities fraud, which arises when investors are deceived by misleading statements concerning the financial condition and prospects of public companies.
Executive Compensation
International Practice
Securities and Capital Raising
Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital
Tripp Levy’s Emerging Growth Companies & Venture Capital practice represents venture-backed, angel-backed and self-funded emerging growth and start-up companies across a wide range of industries. Our firm also provides strategic advice and counsel to the individuals and entities that finance these innovative businesses, including venture capitalists, angel investors and private equity funds.
We are highly experienced professionals committed to delivering the sophisticated legal services start-up and emerging growth companies need to grow and expand their operations. Our legal team counsels and advises clients nationwide on a broad array of matters, including capital-raising, corporate finance and securities transactions involving:
- Angel investments and seed financings.
- Convertible debt and bridge loans.
- Venture capital financings.
- Strategic partnering and investments.
- Private equity investments.
We are driven to meet the complex and diverse legal needs of start-up and emerging growth companies. We have extensive experience advising our clients on entity formation, capitalization, corporate governance, equity compensation and capital-raising matters, and we prepare and negotiate the financing documentation covering the issuance of equity and debt securities.
Recognizing that many of our attorneys have served as in-house counsel and on management teams and boards of directors, clients turn to us to provide ongoing corporate counsel in connection with all aspects of their daily operations. We also collaborate with attorneys in other practice areas throughout to address our clients’ broader legal needs, ranging from intellectual property matters to complex incentive compensation arrangements. Additionally, the strong relationships and trust we have developed within the investor community allows us, when appropriate, to introduce our emerging-growth clients to potential investors that may be a good fit for their business ventures.
Reputation Matters
Tripp Levy PLLC has a global reputation and has been prominantly mentioned in media publications throughout the United States and Canada, including, among others, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Dow Jones, Bloomberg, and The Canadian Press.