Corporate, Securities and Corporate Finance: experience in diverse domestic and international corporate transactions, including representing issuers and underwriters (and investment bankers) in connection with public and private securities offerings (including IPOs and secondary offerings); representing venture capital and other investment groups or funds, as well as portfolio companies, in private debt and equity financing transactions; representing various participants (buyers, sellers, financing sources) in merger and acquisition and change of control transactions, public and private; counseling as to Securities Exchange Act of 1934 compliance and disclosure; advising regulated companies (including broker/dealers and investment advisers) as to regulatory and compliance matters; advising clients as to Investment Company Act of 1940 issues; structuring financing arrangements and vehicles (including structuring various hedge, private equity and other investment funds); representing borrowers and lenders in lending transactions (including financing transactions relating to acquisitions); and structuring and documenting joint venture, corporate partnering and similar arrangements.