Practice & Industry Areas
Securities
Gunster attorneys have the breadth of legal and business knowledge, international experience and technical skill needed to advise companies from the first round of financing to the initial public offering and beyond. The attorneys of Gunster’s Securities practice have worked at some of the best-known Wall Street law firms, and honed their skills as in-house counsel to Fortune 500 companies. They have led securities transactions from funding startups through complex public offerings. As a result of this collective experience, Gunster provides clients with the business orientation and quality legal counsel expected from a major money-center law firm. At the same time, Gunster’s orientation to small and mid-cap companies embraces clients sometimes overlooked by other large law firms.
As a full-service law firm, Gunster provides businesses with a full range of corporate legal service and business-oriented counsel, to each client, and at every stage of growth.
Service areas:
- Business formation and entity selection
- Venture capital /private equity financing
- Private placements
- Public offerings
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Public company disclosure
- Counseling boards of directors and board committees
- Executive compensation
- Proxy statements and voting matters
- Corporate governance
- Stock Exchange listings and compliance
- Shareholder communication and press relations
- Insider reporting and restricted stock transaction