The Intersection of Law and Business

The best advice I ever received – and maybe to me it is the best because I received it very early in my career – became an element of the foundational framework for understanding my practice, corporate law, life, clients and everything. When I think back on that advice, it seems basic and simple, but [...]

One thing we find surprisingly important as corporate lawyers is the ability to be able to relate on a personal level to the persons involved in the transaction. This person could be the lawyer’s client, the lawyer on the other side of the transaction, the investment bankers involved in helping your client raise money or [...]

We think the issue that has a number of companies figuratively scratching their heads is how we are going to behave in this reactive environment, which allows a level of criminal liability for chief executive officers and chief financial officers who lie or mislead the public. What level of liability is there for directors trying [...]

One of the things very important to us – and something our clients understand very well – is that we can never advise them and we never will advise them in a manner that distorts reality, shades the truth, or violates principles of ethics or legality. We all must operate in the world and in [...]

It is critical for the corporate practitioner to find some manner to understand and communicate to his client what the implications and risks of various actions are. A large but real variable among lawyers is how they quantify these risks and how they factor risk into their analysis in advising their clients. On one end [...]

A meaningful degree of due diligence is performed in taking on a new client, depending on who the client is and what its objectives are. If it is a large, significant, public company, one can look at its public filings and get a description of the company and an understanding of its strategy and direction. [...]