Business Transactions and Mergers and Acquisitions

Business Transactions

Bowie & Jensen’s business transaction group includes attorneys with a breadth and depth of practical experience and legal knowledge to help clients recognize, evaluate, and capitalize on opportunities in business.

We help clients identify their business goals and then develop strategies and tactics to achieve them.

The firm’s transactional attorneys understand the speed of business and the time frames and pressures facing our clients.  We are quick and efficient and understand that the goal is to get it done.

We devote our practice to business transactions. This focus enables us to deepen our knowledge beyond the law to the particular workings of the businesses we serve. At Bowie & Jensen we’re able to help clients understand the rewards, risks and likely results of pursuing one course of action over another and working through any opposition or obstacles encountered along the way. We understand that your business depends on getting deals done. We’re here to make that happen.

At Bowie & Jensen we are practical and take initiative. We seek a clear understanding of a client’s goals in each transaction and present the client with clear and realistic business and legal advice.

Practice Area Focus

The range of our transactional practice is as broad as your business needs, both current and future.  They range from the common:

• contract negotiation
• commercial lending
• securing payment

to the complex:

• complex analysis of factual situations to identify leverage points and opportunities to achieve success.

Venture Capital; Mergers, Acquisitions And Financing

Bowie & Jensen lawyers have negotiated, conducted and coordinated numerous mergers, acquisitions and financing transactions, including mezzanine, prior round take-outs, roll up, direct equity financing, and related transactions such as corporate redemptions, recapitalizations and reorganizations.  We concentrate our practice in private closely held business transactions, where we have the most experience, but while our typical transaction is between two privately held entities, we have conducted acquisitions with publicly traded companies where we are counsel to the seller (the non public entity).

In addition to being issuer’s counsel we have also counseled venture capital firms in financing and acquisition transactions and complex multi-state corporate reorganizations and roll ups. 

Our attorneys assist in all aspects of the typical legal work involved in these deals, from exempt securities compliance in all states, to tax and highly compensated employee incentive issues – which includes Section 83 (restricted stock), 424 (Incentive Stock Option and Stock Appreciation Rights) plans, 409A deferred comp plans and phantom equity/alternative contractual plans.¹

Practice Area Focus

• Assisted a multi-national company divest a portion of its business to an Indian publicly traded company in a complex partial divestiture
• Assisted a venture group in acquiring an existing profitable business using venture debt and equity capital sources
• Assisted a client obtain mezzanine debt financing to continue operations through to an eventual sale
• Assisted in strategic liability and risk reduction plans for a mutli-national company including coordinating numerous counsel in international markets in the overall plan

¹We do not practice in the area of Employee Retirement Income and Security Act (ERISA) plans or in Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), and refer these matters to other lawyers.