Corporate Law

For more than 100 of the region's companies, including privately held and family owned companies, non-profits, limited partnerships, LLCs, and publicly traded companies, Downey Brand serves as outside general counsel, handling all legal matters.  For other national and regional companies, our corporate lawyers are called upon to act as special counsel to handle complex business transactions. 

As outside general counsel, we become intimately familiar with our clients’ businesses to better serve them and help them accomplish their goals.  In this role, we are often called upon to offer strategic legal advice as well as to negotiate and document specific transactions.  We also assist clients with legal issues they encounter regarding ongoing operational and legal compliance questions, including regulatory compliance, employment law, and the fiduciary obligations of officers and directors to investors.  Other examples of services regularly performed by our corporate lawyers include the formation of business entities, the development and negotiation of shareholder agreements, and the structuring of joint ventures.