Corporate Governance

• Advising boards, independent board committees and individual directors and executives on a wide range of corporate governance matters, including shareholder demands, executive succession, fiduciary duties, transactions and internal investigations 

• Advising individuals when considering joining or leaving a board or serving as a voting trustee 

• Representing nonprofits on updating their governance, and donors to nonprofits on gift agreements 

• Conducting independent board evaluations 

Transactions & Corporate Counseling 

• Quarterbacking M&A transactions 

• Advising individual owners within an ownership group on issues and arrangements personal to them 

• Providing ongoing legal advice to a privately held group of companies 

• Advising on agreements 

Litigation & Dispute Resolution 

• Serving as a Chair and as a party appointed arbitrator in complex arbitrations 

• Advising on complex federal securities claims, including for a bankruptcy trustee 

• Assisting in the resolution of disputes among the owners of closely held companies 

• Representing a chief legal officer in connection with an audit committee investigation 

• Providing an expert opinion on U.S. securities laws in a case brought in a non-U.S. jurisdiction.