Business/General Corporate

Overview
Nutter has a substantial business practice, representing a broad spectrum of clients, including major, publicly-held corporations, family-owned and other privately-held companies, institutions, and emerging companies.

Our practice
Securities

• Public offerings
• Private placements
• Mergers and acquisitions
• SEC reporting
• Investor communications
• Trading on inside information
• Investment advisors

Mergers and acquisitions

Business planning and organization

• Business formation and organization
• Restructuring
• Stock transfer restrictions
• Buy-out agreements
• Business succession planning

Emerging companies

• Financing through venture capital, corporate finance
• Technology protection and licensing
• Executive compensation, employee incentives
• International transactions

High technology

• Internet law
• Copyright and trademark registration and licensing
• Proprietary information advice and agreements
• Publishing law advice and agreements
• Software protection and licensing

Hedge funds

• Fund establishment
• Ongoing business, organizational, and trading and compliance issues
• Private placement investments

Finance

• Public and private debt and equity offerings
• Sale and leaseback transactions
• Equipment leasing
• Real estate syndications
• Municipal bond financings

Banking and financial services

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Reorganizations, including mutual holding companies
• Mutual-to-stock conversions
• Bank formations and comparative charter analysis
• Assistance with new products and services, including insurance, securities, trust services, collective investment and common trust funds
• Corporate and regulatory
• Compliance
• Loan structuring, negotiation and documentation
• Creditors' rights and loan workouts
• Equipment leasing
• Public finance

Commercial law

• Workouts
• Bankruptcy and insolvency
• Creditor and debtor rightss
• Uniform Commercial Code transactions

Health care

• Licensing and certification
• Reimbursement and payment arrangements
• Regulatory compliance
• Medical privacy
• Antitrust issues
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Governance

Institutional lenders

• Loan transactions
• Bank operations, mergers, conversions, and regulatory approvals

Intellectual property

• Development, protection and exploitation of proprietary rights
• Preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign patent applications
• Licensing, copyrights, trade secrets, and proprietary services

Executive compensation and employment agreements

Nonprofit organizations

• Structural matters
• Fund raising issues and financing
• Revenue-generating and investment activities
• Employment matters
• Governance

Corporate trustee services

Public finance

Public law

• Strategic planning where business intersects with public policy
• Advice on legislation