Corporate Advisory
Optim Corporate specialises in transaction work. Our ability to structure and execute deals helps our clients’ to balance their immediate goals with their long-term strategic objectives.
We add value to our clients by providing practical advice on business matters and by structuring transactions in a manner that maximizes business, strategic and tax efficiencies.
This clientele comes from a broad array of industries with a focus on private equity, Cleantech, renewable energy, digital media and telecommunications sectors. We provide strategic advice at the board level to emerging enterprises, middle-market companies and large corporations.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Our Merger and Acquisition professionals have represented domestic and offshore companies, funds and financial institutions in their various roles as buyers, sellers and investors.
Optim Legal’s lawyers have represented buyers and sellers in a range of settings in all types of corporate acquisitions and dispositions, including:
- Stock Purchases
- Asset Purchases
- Mergers
- Tender Offers
- Spin Offs
Our representations range from the most common to complex deals spanning diverse industries, including energy, technology, media and communications, retail and business services.
Private equity & buyouts
Our lawyers have deep and broad experience meeting the legal needs of private equity investment firms. We do comprehensive financial and investment work for companies with a core focus in the following areas:
- Acquisition of distressed companies and restructuring transactions
- Portfolio company acquisitions and dispositions
- Fund formation
- Leveraged recapitalisation transactions
- Senior and mezzanine financing
Tax structuring of management incentive compensation
Securities
Optim Legal’s lawyers have advised companies in relation to private offerings of debt and equity, corporate governance and compliance with securities laws.
- Typical advisory work includes the following:
- Capital raising transactions
- Offerings by mezzanine and leveraged buyout funds
- Rights offerings and exchange offers
Joint ventures / strategic alliances
We have considerable experience in advising on a variety of different joint ventures ranging from conventional style holding company joint ventures, to multi-layered joint ventures, limited and unlimited partnerships and strategic alliances, both for our domestic and international clients, in a wide range of sectors.
Venture capital Investments
We provide strategic legal advice in connection with finance, liquidity and business issues. We have advised clients on:
- Angel and bridge financings, including common and/or preferred stock financings, convertible debt financings and warrants
- Traditional venture-backed preferred stock financings at all levels, including advice and structuring of term sheets, preferred stock purchase agreements, preferred stock terms, investor rights and shareholders agreements, registration rights agreements and related closing documents
- Private placement – both sales of debt and equity securities
