In addition to acting as general corporate counsel, Alliance Counsel serves as transaction counsel in many industries. The following lists a selection of our attorneys' current and/or prior clients and representative transactions.
- Software and Licensing, Technology Infrastructure and E-Commerce
- Equity Financing
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Debt Financing and Restructuring
- Real Estate
- Labor and Employment
Software And Licensing, Technology Infrastructure And
E-Commerce
Swrve New Media, Deem, Media Matters, Lyris Technologies, Amobee, Jajah, Informative, Vertical Response
Representative Transactions:
- Swrve - Software as a Service ("SAAS") agreements for mobile marketing platform used by many large global and US companies: partnerships and vendor agreements with technology providers.
- Deem - SAAS and technology agreements for commercial travel technology platform.
- Media Matters - Commercial agreements for digital media services and technology platform.
- Lyris - Revenue generating contracts, including agreements, enterprise and consumer software license and distribution agreements.
- Amobee – SAAS agreements for mobile advertising platform with Sprint, AT&T, Vodafone, French Telekom, Singapore Telecommunications, and Intuit; creative services agreements with advertising agencies and developers.
- Jajah – Service and technology licensing for telephony services with Yahoo, eHarmony, and mobile phone providers.
- Informative - Marketing survey technology and software license agreements with 1-800 Flowers, Sony, Intuit, Glaxo, Ogilvie, and Rapp Collins.
- Vertical Response – Email marketing and alliance agreements.
Equity Financing
Assurz, SolarCity Corporation, TalentHouse, 47 Hills Brewery, Refine Beverages
Representative Transactions:
- Assurz – Series A ($5.5M) and Series B ($5.25M) financing rounds.
- SolarCity Corporation – Series A, B and C ($21M) financing rounds.
- Qino – represented European seed stage firm in three rounds of early stage financing for US startup companies.
- TalentHouse – Series A and B financing; and technology agreements.
- 47 Hills Brewery - early stage financing for craft brewery.
- Refine Beverages – Seed stage equity financing.
- Represented cannabis grower and wholesaler for early stage financing and related transactions.
- Represented investment funds and numerous individual high net worth investors in seed, angel and venture capital financing rounds.
- Represented major investor in equity and debt financings of professional sports teams.
Mergers And Acquisitions
Lyris Technologies, SabSe Technologies, Stadeon
Representative Transactions:
- SabSe Technologies – represented company in acquisition of three complementary technology companies for its messaging and telephony platform.
- Lyris – acquisitions by Lyris of competing email hosting company, SparkLIST.com and other technology companies in US, United Kingdom and Australia.
- Stadeon – represented Stadeon (gaming platform company) in its acquisition by Yahoo.
- Technology company acquisition via a merger and asset purchases totaling $14M.
- Health care training and consulting firm sale transaction to health care social networking company.
- SF/Bay Area restaurant groups in the acquisition of existing locations.
Debt Financing And Restructuring
Representative Transactions:
- $15M debt facility with Hewlett-Packard Credit Corporation.
- $3M equipment lease with Heller Financial Leasing, Inc. (purchased by GE Capital Corporation).
- $1.5M venture debt facility with WTI Lending.
- $500K debt facility for expansion of product offering by NatureMill, Inc.
- Restructured debt facility to accomplish buy-out at approx. 50% value.
Real Estate
McGrath Properties, Pacific Union, Applebee’s Franchisee, Il Fornaio Restaurants, Moana Restaurant Group, Solage Hotels
Representative Transactions:
- McGrath Properties – Represented buyer and seller in acquisitions of commercial real estate in Northern California.
- Pacific Union - Represented company in leasing of office locations throughout California.
- Represented seller in a $24M purchase and sale transaction for a retail shopping center.
- Negotiated $14M financing with Bank of America for industrial project in SF/Bay Area.
- Land use transactions with local government and adjoining property owners in American Canyon, CA.
- Acquisition of 66,000 square foot mixed use office and retail shopping center in Marin County.
- Acquisition and financing of 120,000 square foot retail and warehouse project in Southern California; negotiated all leases to regional and national companies.
- Long term leases and subleases for office and industrial sites for McGrath Properties.
- Long-term restaurant leases for Il Fornaio with institutional retail property owners.
- Applebee’s Franchisee – represented largest Applebee’s franchisee in series of long term leases and site acquisitions.
- Purchase and sale of a Napa Valley guest resort.
Labor And Employment
Representative Transactions:
- Amobee executive team for employment agreements and related contracts in acquisition by Singapore Telecommunications.
- Employment agreements and employee proprietary information and inventions agreements.
- Executive separation dispute resolution, severance agreements and related equity arrangements.
- Employee equity incentive plans.