Corporate & Securities

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A dozen Fortune 500 companies, along with many growing middle market businesses, across wide-ranging industries rely on Moore & Van Allen as their corporate counsel. We believe it's because we create value, with a high level of client service and leading-edge advice.  We can help your business as well—whether it is a start-up or an established company—locally, nationally and internationally.    

With some 80 diverse, talented and hardworking attorneys, our Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions/Securities practice group provides our clients—in manufacturing, finance, transportation, retail, biotech, health care, telecommunications and more—a full range of quality corporate legal services at rates significantly below those of comparable firms in the larger urban markets.

And because we are organized to reduce bureaucracy and increase personal initiative, you get attentive and personable service from a client-focused senior attorney leading an efficient, high-tech team with multiple skills and varying hourly rates.

Our Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions/Securities practice has built a national reputation and we have become one of the Southeast's largest laws firm because of progressive, prudent and timely work for our business clients as we strive to achieve their goals and meet their deadlines.   

Practice Focus

•  General corporate, partnership, and limited-liability company matters:
  • General and limited partnerships and joint ventures 
  • Investment, buy-sell and shareholder agreements

• Mergers and acquisitions:
  • Represent acquiring or acquired entities in taxable and tax-free merger, acquisition or sale transactions, including leveraged buyouts 
  • Advise clients on tax, regulatory, securities, environmental, employee benefit and antitrust issues, including Hart-Scott-Rodino requirements
    

• Securities matters:
  • Initial public offerings, secondary public offerings, and offerings of unregistered private equity and debt placements 
  • Securities matters before North Carolina securities regulators
  • "Going private" transactions 
  • Employee incentive stock and dividend reinvestment plan registration 
  • Reporting, proxy and other federal and state compliance obligations 
  • National securities exchange regulations

• Corporate finance

• Private Equity-representation of sponsors in all aspects of leveraged buy-out transactions

• Venture capital

• Commercial and business contract negotiation:
  • Employment and consulting agreements 
  • Supply contracts 
  • Forms of purchase and sale orders 
  • Warranties 
  • Franchise documentation
    

• Licensing agreements

• High-tech/biotech R&D issues and manufacturing concerns