Emerging Company

For example:

Our full-service Intellectual Property Group—recently expanded through our merger with the leading IP boutique Woodcock Washburn— helps clients protect IP portfolios across the country and around the world.

Our FDA and Life Sciences team routinely helps clients navigate regulatory compliance and litigation issues throughout the life cycles of drugs, medical devices and other products that are regulated to assure their efficacy and safety.

Our Tax Group—one of the legal profession’s most respected—works closely with emerging team clients to structure tax-efficient transactions and to arrange business operations in ways that minimize compliance burdens and optimize tax synergies.

Our Privacy and Data Protection team has the experience that comes from helping clients respond to more than 500 data breaches (including 175 in the past year) to help emerging companies protect their internal or external data from all types of threats, accidental or malicious.

Our Corporate Governance team advises founders, executives and directors about their fiduciary responsibilities, how to deal with stakeholders and a wide range of other governance issues.

Our Transactions team includes more than 100 mergers and acquisitions attorneys who regularly represent clients of all sizes in their domestic and international transactions.

Our New Markets Tax Credit and State and Local Tax teams have a strong track record of guiding businesses through the process of securing economic development incentives at the state, local and city levels.

Our Employment Group, well-known for representing employers in the challenging issues facing employers in the modern workplace, works closely with our Executive Compensation team to assist clients in structuring meaningful and effective compensation arrangements.

Our Private Equity and Venture Capital team regularly work with capital, angel and private equity investors to guide emerging companies through each step of the capital-raising process.

We also maintain a national network of referrals for entrepreneurs needing the expertise of accounting firms, web designers, insurers and other vendors with substantial experience servicing emerging companies

Client Success Story

In 2001, the founders of Envision RxOptions, a small pharmacy benefits management company, asked BakerHostetler to represent them on a range of tax and corporate matters. Although at the time, Envision had fewer than 10 employees and only a handful of clients, its business utilized a unique business method, which BakerHostetler helped the company patent. Capitalizing on this unique business model, Envision rapidly expanded its customer base and its lines of business. As the company grew, the scope of services for which it turned to BakerHostetler grew as well. Indeed, BakerHostetler’s role expanded from serving as Envision’s go-to law firm for tax and corporate matters to guiding it on matters involving finance, intellectual property, employee benefits, employment practices, commercial litigation, insurance, pharmacy licensure, real estate and other regulatory matters as well.

In each instance, our Emerging Companies team identified the BakerHostetler lawyers best-equipped to handle Envision’s diverse needs. At the end of 2013, we represented Envision and its shareholders in the sale of a majority of the company’s equity to TPG, a global private equity firm, with Envision’s shareholders retaining a substantial minority interest. Since the sale, BakerHostetler has continued to serve as Envision’s go-to legal counsel. We are proud of our role in Envision’s success story.