The attorneys of Reger Rizzo & Darnall’s Corporate & Business Services Group understand the quick pace of business and know the value of clear communication. Clients rely on our team to respond expeditiously to questions quickly and offer practical solutions.
Our experienced attorneys provide innovative and customized legal services for a variety of clients in a broad range of industries, representing both public and private companies in matters ranging from entity formation and contract negotiation to complex, multi-million-dollar mergers and acquisitions. Our typical clients are privately owned entities ranging from multi-millions in revenue to those we have helped grow to this level. Often, our attorneys will represent a business through its entire life cycle.
We pride ourselves on being more than a service provider—we want clients to view our attorneys as members of their team and partners in their success. As a result, we have built a reputation for responsiveness, value, and business acumen.
The companies we serve are growing more sophisticated by the day. They need insight and advice on the things they know they do not know. Reger Rizzo & Darnall helps them understand the legal ramifications of their decisions without getting bogged down in esoteric discussions.
Our clients know we will deliver a full range of services efficiently and at competitive rates. Sensible, timely advice and responsiveness have also earned our team of experienced corporate attorneys a place as trusted advisors to the ownership and senior leadership of the businesses we serve. Our dedication to them is evident in their loyalty to us.
The Corporate & Business Services Group handles a wide variety of practice areas including:
- Business Succession Planning
- Commercial Finance / Bank and Institutional Borrowing
- Contract Preparation & Negotiation
- Corporate Governance
- Entity Formation / Start-ups
- Franchise and Distribution and Hospitality
- Joint Ventures
- Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
- Non-Profit Corporations
- Private Equity Financings
- Private Placements
- Regulatory Compliance
- Shareholder / Member / Partner Disputes
- Shareholder, Operating and Partnership Agreements
- Workouts and Restructuring
- Tax
Sample matters include a three-party deal that placed certain assets of a company into a separate entity to be sold, followed by a restructuring of the remaining business to be sold for cash, rollover equity and debt. The firm also handled the $125-million sale-by-merger of a private online retailer to a public company, the culmination of a client relationship that began in 1997 and continued through several rounds of investments from private equity funds and banks.
Reger Rizzo & Darnall also acted as the lead borrower’s counsel in connection with a U.S. Department of Agriculture guaranteed construction loan. The funds supported the development and installation of a water treatment system for a municipal landfill in Florida. Our team worked with local counsel on regulatory and real estate issues and negotiated the loan documentation, as well as documentation for the conversion to a permanent loan facility. This was a complex transaction on behalf of a client we have assisted since its inception in 2010.
Because they know they can count on us, the sophisticated middle-market entities we serve typically take advantage of the firm’s full range of services beyond the Corporate & Business Services Practice Group: real estate, employment, business disputes and litigation, and estates and trusts, immigration, tax, utilities, and others.