Corporate and Business

Brenner, Saltzman & Wallman LLP is a full-service legal source for entrepreneurial, family and middle-market businesses. Our lawyers assist clients with their day-to-day, business-related legal needs, from structuring the business organization through financing and capitalization, from preparing agreements and contracts to compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations. We also guide and represent clients through successful transactions involving the sale or purchase of a business, formation of strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and private placements. And, we coordinate the efforts of clients, their accountants, underwriters and investment bankers.

Brenner, Saltzman & Wallman is a full-service legal source for entrepreneurial, family and middle-market business entities in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, wholesale and retail distribution, consulting, high-technology, and telecommunications. Our attorneys serve as general counsel for a substantial number of our clients, serving their day-to-day legal needs. We also regularly represent clients in complex transactions such as strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity capital-raising transactions.

Our historic focus on closely-held small and medium-sized businesses has allowed us to form close collaborative relationships with our clients This enables us to intimately understand our clients' businesses and their needs, allowing us to deliver added value as legal advisors. Our experience in representing family and medium-sized businesses in sophisticated transactions offers our clients access to advice from a network of relationships that is typically available only to larger clients of larger firms. We are regularly called upon to collaborate with, and to orchestrate the activities of, a range of professional advisors to our clients, including special regulatory counsel, investment bankers and auditors. Our attorneys help facilitate effective communication between the client and these advisors, assisting the client to use them to its best advantage.

We are committed to providing our clients with sophisticated legal services informed by a practical understanding of their needs and goals. Our attorneys have significant experience in a broad range of matters, and we bring a team approach to client service, drawing on our colleagues' capabilities in tax and estate planning, real estate, environmental, and pension and employee benefits.

We regularly represent clients in:

• Merger and acquisition transactions with private and publicly-held companies

• Debt and equity financing, including private placements and venture capital

• Strategic alliances and joint ventures

• Business formation and planning

• Corporate governance and shareholder agreements

• Employment agreements and incentive compensation programs, including stock options

We treat each of our clients as long-term investment. Because of our intimate understanding of their businesses, we strive to provide them with the highest quality legal representation, while remaining sensitive to their resources. We have consciously limited our size in order to ensure continuity in the lawyers who work for particular clients and to leverage our attorney's deep experience and practical business sense.

Brenner, Saltzman & Wallman is uniquely positioned to understand and address the needs and goals of entrepreneurial, family and middle-market businesses. Our mission is to deliver the personal, practical, sophisticated legal services our clients need to achieve their goals.