Business & Corporate - Drummond Woodsum

Practice Overview

Drummond Woodsum’s business and corporate attorneys serve a wide range of clients, from start-ups and early-stage companies to multinational corporations. We assist clients in achieving their immediate objectives while also protecting our clients’ long-term interests, and we do so efficiently, which is why Drummond Woodsum is a leader in business and corporate law. We serve the needs of our clients in their day-to-day operations as well as their most significant undertakings and transactions and everything in between. The firm’s business lawyers are widely respected for their experience, expertise, and pragmatic approach to client issues. Every lawyer in the group is taught that it is our job to understand your business and provide solutions, not just identify problems. The firm’s Business and Merger and Acquisition practices and many of its business lawyers have been recognized for many years at the highest levels by the prominent legal rating companies Best Lawyers in America and Chambers and Partners.

For many of our clients, we effectively serve as outside general counsel, responding to the frequent inquiries that arise day-to-day, including those related to contract drafting, review, negotiations, financings, owner relations, employment issues, the protection of intellectual property, and commercial disputes. Our business lawyers often develop long-lasting relationships with their clients and with that a deep understanding of your business and objectives. We strive to be viewed as an integral member of your team. We also strive to be responsive and timely in our responses and provide expert, practical, efficient, value-driven advice to our clients.

Our business and corporate law services include entity formation, drafting entity documents (shareholder agreements, limited liability agreements, bylaws, etc.), tax planning, financing transactions, complex merger and acquisition agreements, software development and information technology, contract drafting and contract negotiations of every nature and type, joint ventures, securities offerings, employment agreements and executive compensation, bankruptcy and reorganization transactions, and counseling directors/managers on a range of difficult issues, including fiduciary duty and conflicts of interest.

Our clients include leaders in a wide range of industries, including pulp & paper, financial services, private equity, venture capital, biotechnology, food manufacturing, hospitality, retail, sales, renewable energy, media, telecom, manufacturing, medical device development and manufacturing, software development and technology, aquaculture and Tribal finance and project development matters.