Corporate Sector Legal services for businesses in UAE
Corporate Sector
A dozen Fortune 500 companies, along with many growing middle market businesses, across wide-ranging industries rely on Moore & Van Allen as their corporate counsel. We believe it’s because we create value, with a high level of client service and business-centered advice. We can help your business as well—whether it is a start-up or an established company—locally, nationally and internationally.
Our Corporate practice has built a national reputation and we have become one of the Southeast’s largest law firms because of progressive, prudent and timely work for our business clients as we strive to achieve their goals and meet their deadlines. Our clients’ appreciation of our ability to provide solutions to their corporate legal needs is evidenced by our recognition in top rankings systems such as Chambers and Partners USA, U.S. News & World Report’s Best Lawyers, Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite, and North Carolina Super Lawyers, among others.
With some 80 diverse, talented and hardworking attorneys, our Corporate practice group provides our clients—in manufacturing, finance, transportation, construction, retail, biotech, health care, telecommunications and more—a full spectrum of quality corporate legal services. We have one of the largest, most experienced teams of business lawyers in the Carolinas, whose capabilities enable us to handle the numerous issues that can arise in a single transaction or in a client’s business activities. Due to the depth and breadth of our legal services, we are able to counsel our clients through all stages of their business development, from start-up entity to publicly traded corporation. A summary of our corporate practice’s primary focus areas are listed below.
PRACTICE FOCUS
General corporate, partnership, and limited-liability company matters:
- Formation of entities, joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Investment, buy-sell and shareholder agreements
Mergers and Acquisitions:
Represent acquiring or acquired entities, public and private, in taxable and tax-free merger, acquisition or sale transactions, including leveraged buyouts
Advise clients on tax, regulatory, securities, environmental, employee benefit, employment and antitrust issues, including Hart-Scott-Rodino requirements
Securities & Capital Markets:
- Initial public offerings, secondary public offerings, and offerings of unregistered private equity and debt placements
- Securities matters before federal and state securities regulators
- "Going private" transactions
- Employee incentive stock and dividend reinvestment plan registration
- Employee incentive stock and dividend reinvestment plan registration
- Reporting, proxy and other federal and state compliance obligations
- National securities exchange regulations
Commercial and Business Contract Negotiation:
- Advice on duties of directors in a change in control transactions, anti-takeover defense measures, going-private transactions, spin-offs and spin-outs, and other related-party transactions, executive and director succession, executive and director compensation, financial reporting irregularities, and internal investigations
- Governance structure, board and committee charters and practices, disclosure and compliance policies, director independence, and continued compliance with listing standards
- Shareholder demands and proxy proposals
Private Equity and Mezzanine Finance:
- Representation of sponsors in all aspects of leveraged buy-out transactions
- Representation of investors and issuers in subordinated debt, preferred equity and hybrid securities issuances
Commercial and Business Contract Negotiation:
- Employment and consulting agreements
- Supply contracts
- Forms of purchase and sale orders
- Warranties
- Franchise documentation
- Transportation agreements
- Licensing agreements
- Documentary and standby letters of credit
Economic Incentives:
- Coordinate strategy and negotiations with state and local representatives
- Site selection and permitting