Business & Corporate Transactions

Sands Anderson’s Business and Corporate Transactions Group consists of business, corporate, tax, estate planning, real estate, and transaction lawyers who are highly experienced in all stages of business growth, planning and a wide variety of transactions – no matter how complex. We provide practical, problem-solving approaches to our clients’ business and transaction issues. We help our clients grow and expand their businesses involving a wide array of transactions and projects including mergers, acquisitions, strategic structuring, joint ventures, capital raising (using both debt and equity) buyouts, buy-ins, recapitalizations, business break-ups, settlements, estate planning, divestitures, asset protection strategies, and dissolutions. Our clients consider us their business advisory partners, working with them through the challenges of owning and operating any type of business enterprise, from the ordinary to the complex in all industries.

Our Business and Transactions Group has in-depth experience in many diverse and challenging business issues involving all aspects of growth, operations, management, and transactions, including:

• Sell-Side and Buy-Side Mergers and Acquisitions
• Equity Financing:
  • Private Placements and Exempt Transactions such as Regulation D under the 1933 Securities Act
  • Capital raising under the new Regulation A+ under the JOBS Act
• Debt Financing:
  • Senior debt
  • Mezzanine Financing
  • Lines of Credit
  • Equipment Financing
  • Asset Based lending
• International Transactions
• Taxation Analysis and Structuring
• Financial Restructuring
• Workouts and Refinancing
• Analysis of the federal and state taxation issues
• Intellectual Property Protection
• Technology and Cyber Security Agreements
• Employment Matters
• Real Estate Ownership Structuring
• Asset Protection Strategies
• Wealth Transfer Strategies
• Regulatory Advice at the Federal and State levels
• Negotiated Settlements in lieu of or in conjunction with Litigation

The Business and Transactions Group represents many different groups, parties, and interests:

• All varieties of Entities: Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships
• Tax Exempt Organizations
• Entrepreneurs
• International Businesses
• Directors, Managers, Officers and C-Suite Executives
• Corporate and Foundation Boards
• Business Acquirers and Sellers
• Majority and Minority Stockholders
• Banks
• Non-Bank Lenders
• Consulting Firms
• Broker-Dealers
• Underwriters
• Real Estate Developers

Our distinctive approach provides a blend of rapid response with practical, business oriented solutions. Our attorneys have a diverse set of skills and backgrounds, including investment banking, corporate executive experience, advanced degrees in taxation, CPAs and MBAs. We provide a full and dynamic range of services that focus on results that are tax efficient and make plain business sense.