ON Securities : Securities Lawyer & Attorney for Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Matters

Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP is a Minneapolis-based law firm with 85 attorneys offering extensive experience in commercial law. As part of the Business & Securities Practice, Maslon attorneys advise a wide range of private and publicly held clients. First and foremost, we are business law attorneys leveraging our education and experience to provide creative, cost-efficient and strategic solutions for our business clients. We have an emphasis on securities law, where we work with enterprises ranging from startups seeking capitalization to established public corporations complying with the maze of complex securities laws. Our strengths include the following areas:

• Public Company Securities Compliance. We have a strong history of guiding our clients through the intricacies of dealing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the various stock exchanges, including Nasdaq. We have advised many publicly-held companies about filings and proxy statements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, press releases and other public disclosures, insider trading reporting, and more complicated, transaction-based filings with the Securities Exchange Commission in connection with mergers, acquisitions, financings and other transactions.
• Corporate Finance. Maslon's Business & Securities Group lawyers represent businesses ranging from emerging start-ups looking for seed capital to billion-dollar corporations conducting their initial or follow-on public offering. Maslon's securities lawyers have extensive experience guiding clients through private placements, venture capital financings and public offerings. Our lawyers have worked on financings with all of the region's largest investment banking firms and several national underwriters.
• Corporate Governance and Director Services. We advise management, board committees, independent directors and entire boards of directors on a wide array of issues, including compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; risk management; committee charters, codes of ethics and disclosure policies; and internal and external investigations. In addition to a long history of representing public companies, several of our lawyers also have personal experience serving as public company directors and board committee members.
• Benefits and Executive Compensation. We advise a wide range of private and publicly held clients, including tax-exempt entities, with respect to their employee benefit plans and executive compensation and employment arrangements. For public companies, these areas have recently been under special scrutiny in response to well-publicized corporate scandals. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and related rules of Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange affect these plans and agreements. Maslon's Business & Securities lawyers continually monitor new developments in tax law and compensation trends. They work with a company's other advisors to craft plans and agreements that will accomplish the company's business objectives, ranging from simple, standardized 401(k) prototypes to custom defined benefit plans providing extra benefits for key employees. Maslon attorneys are also very experienced at working with executives to make certain that their benefit programs are coordinated with their tax and estate planning considerations.