Commercial Contracts and Strategic Partnerships

JAB Law structures, negotiates, documents, and manages agreements that are critical to its clients’ businesses.  Offering prompt and practical counsel on routine commercial arrangements and high-value partnerships, JAB Law focuses on maximizing long-term value and minimizing exposure.

Clients choose JAB Law to benefit from the firm’s expertise in negotiating a deal that meets their objectives and lays the foundation for a successful outcome.JAB Law’s experience covers the full spectrum of commercial contracts, from routine agreements—such as services, consulting, manufacturing, distribution, supply, and release agreements—to complex and strategically important alliances and collaborations—such as joint ventures, joint developments, and licenses.

 

 

Corporate Governance

Companies of all types, sizes, and industries are tasked with the responsibility of maintaining and implementing corporate governance internally.  JAB Law helps businesses with their corporate governance matters so that shareholders and boards can focus on operations and profitability.

The support JAB Law provides includes:

  • forming new businesses and affiliated entities;

  • advising on various legal, tax, and key business aspects of the creation of an entity, and drafting all documents related thereto;

  • negotiating and drafting shareholder agreements and other owner-related documents;

  • advising clients on proper corporate governance procedures;

  • assisting with the maintenance of minute books;

  • participating in Board and other decision-making processes;

  • preparing companies for third-party due diligence processes (including in the context of a merger, acquisition, sale, partnership, or raise); and

  • advising on, and implementing, internal restructurings.

 

 

Mergers & Acquisitions

A company’s M&A strategy can have fundamental effects on its market penetration, competitivity, diversification, and costs.  JAB Law understands the time-sensitivities, practical realities, and industry pressures that its clients face and combines its market knowledge and deal execution skills to offer pragmatic solutions.

Representing buyers, sellers, private and public companies, private equity firms, and other financial sponsors in local and cross-border transactions, JAB Law routinely structures, negotiates, and closes M&A transactions and delivers sensible solutions throughout the deal’s lifecycle.  From strategic evaluation through post-closing integration, JAB Law ensures that the deal process is streamlined for its clients. 

 

 

Outside General Counsel Services

JAB Law provides outside general counsel services to companies that have no or only a limited in-house legal function.  These services are customized to address each client’s specific legal needs and allow companies to access the firm for advice and support under a billing arrangement that makes sense: companies need not worry about being billed by the minute and can instead benefit from a cost-effective means of obtaining continued legal support for their operations.

  • For companies that do not have an in-house legal function, JAB Law fully integrates the business to support routine, legal matters in an efficient manner.  JAB Law adds to its role of legal technician that of a business advisor, participating in operational decisions and proactively identifying business and legal issues.

  • For companies that do have an in-house legal function, JAB Law helps manage spikes in workload that require an extension of the internal legal team.  By supplementing the existing team, JAB Law offers support for new growth, large deals, and special projects, or even day-to-day matters that may require additional attention.

In either case, such outsourced in-house counsel services can prove invaluable to allow executives to focus on company growth and development with the comfort of knowing that key business decisions are properly backed by thorough and continuous legal support. 

 

 

US Implementation & Expansion of Foreign Companies

JAB Law regularly advises non-US companies—including clients based in Canada, Europe, Israel, Asia, and South and Central America—that have decided to establish and grow a presence in the United States, whether to expand their market-base, raise capital, acquire competitors, or pursue strategic partnerships.

JAB Law’s expansion services cover all legal aspects of a corporate US implementation, from the formation of affiliates and drive for organic growth through local hiring, to the acquisition of US businesses and the negotiation and implementation of new, US commercial relationships.  JAB Law also coordinates its clients’ business and tax planning needs with back office and tax advisors.

 

 

Venture Capital & Private Equity

JAB Law provides sophisticated counsel to growth companies, venture capital firms, and private equity groups in connection with their angel and late-stage financings and growth capital and minority investments.

Working with both companies and investment firms, JAB Law is able to bring the knowledge and perspective of one party to bear for the benefit of the other and drive an alignment of interests between entrepreneurs and investors, setting a strong foundation for the companies’ future growth.  The firm is also well versed in the myriad corporate governance and commercial issues that may require attention when closing on an investment deal, including conditions related to companies’ global corporate structures.