II.
Practice of the Firm
Corporate
Counsel to boards and closely held enterprises: governance, transactions, and the long view.
The approach.
The corporate practice advises boards, special committees, and closely held enterprises on governance, transactions, and succession — the decisions that are examined years later, in hindsight, by people with subpoenas.
The firm's counsel is written to be read aloud in a deposition without embarrassment. That standard, applied early, is the cheapest insurance a board can buy.
Representative Matters
2024 — In re Solent Marine Merger Litig. — $2.1B merger closed as signed.
2021 — Special committee of a NYSE industrial — Process upheld; derivative claims dismissed.
1994 — In re Calloway Holdings — Board defended; every claim dismissed with prejudice.
A selection. Most of the practice’s engagements remain, by design, confidential.