Advice to a startup business, including incorporation, financing etc. Can be a for-profit or not-for-profit startup.

Jeanne R. Solomon is a senior associate in the firm's New York office. She focuses her practice on corporate and securities law including corporate governance, equity and debt offerings, acquisitions and dispositions, credit financings, and restructurings as well as representation of indenture trustees and agents in transactions and restructurings.

Representative Experience

• Assisted in the representation of public issuers and voluntary filers in drafting and updating corporate governance documents including board and committee charters, codes of conduct, governance guidelines, authorization limit guidelines, insider trading policies, social media policies and related party transaction policies

• Assisted in the representation of public issuers in 144A offerings of senior notes and convertible debentures and related Exchange Act registrations through exchange offers and resale registrations, and with subsequent redemptions, including related conversions and make-whole payments.

• Assisted in the representation of companies in connection with initial public offerings and additional equity offerings

• Assisted in the representation of companies in connection with acquisitions and dispositions, including the sale by a public company of significant surplus assets; the sale by an Indian outsourcing services business of its stock and assets; and the sale by a large document technology company of part of its business to another document technology company (including international aspects of stock and asset sales).

• Assisted in the representation of public issuer in numerous refinancings of its large credit facility, including international aspects of collateralization of refinanced facility.

• Assisted in the representation of SPAC issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings of equity securities.

• Assisted in the representation of a Nasdaq-listed company in a series of 3(a)(9) exchanges of outstanding warrants for shares of common stock. Assisted in the representation of banks and other institutions acting as trustees, escrow agents and paying agents in connection with domestic and international transactions and projects.

Community Activities

Campaign for Change 2008, volunteer Election Day Legal Protection, volunteer

Pro Bono

Organized non-profit companies and cooperatives in New York State and assisted such start-up companies in Brooklyn with corporate and tax matters, including procuring education and ASCPA clearance to incorporate and advising community supported agriculture (CSA) groups as to appropriate federal tax-exempt status category.

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