Areas of Practice
Soden & Steinberger represents a wide array of clients, including entrepreneurs, investors, emerging to mid-size companies, and corporate and individual litigants. Soden & Steinberger offers cost-effective, personalized attention to each client.
Soden & Steinberger has extensive experience in corporate matters ranging from new startup companies to corporations on the verge of becoming public. Our firm offers advice from formation through dissolution, including corporate engineering, business development, operations, management, mergers, and acquisitions.
Soden & Steinberger's corporate clients include companies in a number of high technology industries, including Internet infrastructure and e-commerce, software, hardware, telecommunications, and biotechnology. Our firm's access to a network of financial institutions and entities, such as venture capital firms and high technology incubators, including private investors, can serve to introduce our clients to potential sources of capital.
Soden & Steinberger also has experience in S and C Corporations, Non-Profit Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Joint Ventures, and Partnerships.
Soden & Steinberger has developed significant knowledge of securities laws issues. Our firm ensures that its clients have satisfied all aspects of regulatory compliance, including SEC registrations, Regulation D, Rule 144A offerings, rules of and reviews by the National Association of Securities Dealers, exchange listings (such as New York, American and The Nasdaq Stock Market) and blue sky filings.
Soden & Steinberger also assists its Clients in transactions involving the change in ownership or control of all or part of a business enterprise, advising the board or directors and participating in meetings, working directly with senior and mid-level management on intellectual property matters, business strategies, and employment matters. The firm also has extensive experience in handling due diligence, negotiating complex agreements, and participating in business and financial planning.
Soden & Steinberger provides legal counseling to entrepreneurs and emerging companies from the early stages of the business planning process through venture financing, public financing, mergers and acquisitions. Soden & Steinberger has worked with many emerging companies, and is attuned to the particular needs of various industries, and the sources of funding and financing structures typically utilized in those industries.
Our attorneys are working closely with buyers, sellers, investment
bankers, investors, boards of directors, and lenders in order to assist our clients
in all types of acquisitions involving publicly traded and privately held corporations,
spin-offs, control contests, and leveraged transactions.
Soden & Steinberger provides legal counseling to entrepreneurs and emerging companies from the early stages of the business planning process through venture financing, public financing, mergers and acquisitions. Soden & Steinberger has worked with many emerging companies, and is attuned to the particular needs of various industries, and the sources of funding and financing structures typically utilized in those industries. Our attorneys are working closely with buyers, sellers, investment bankers, investors, boards of directors, and lenders in order to assist our clients in all types of acquisitions involving publicly traded and privately held corporations, spin-offs, control contests, and leveraged transactions.
Soden & Steinberger has represented a wide range of corporate and individual litigants. Our client-centered approach is meant to protect our clients' interests and to ensure that each client is kept informed and involved as the case progresses towards resolution.
Our firm represents clients in jury and non-jury trials in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution methods. Our litigation cases range from intricate corporate matters to local and individual disputes and include:
- Commercial Litigation
- Professional Liability
- Contract and Tort Disputes
- Securities and Franchise Litigation
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Business and Personal Torts
- Director and Officer Liability
- Real Estate Matters
Soden & Steinberger offers a full range of Franchise Law services, representing the interests of both franchisors and franchisees. The services provided by the firm's Franchise Law practice include:
Franchisor Services:
- Evaluation of Franchise Feasibility
- Formation of Franchisor Business Entities
- Preparation of Franchise, Territorial Franchise, Sub-Franchise and Master Agreements
- Inclusion and Protection of Intellectual Property in Franchise: Confidential Information, Trade Secrets, Trademark, Trade Dress, Copyright and Patent
- Preparation of Franchise Offering Circular
- Compliance with Regulatory Requirements
- Representation Before Regulatory Agencies and Bodies
- Representation in Franchise Renewal and Termination Matters
- Representation in Franchisor/Franchisee Disputes
Franchisee Services:
- Formation of Franchisee Business Entities
- Evaluation of Franchise Documentation: Franchise, Territorial Franchise, Sub-Franchise and Master Agreements and Franchise Offering Circular
- Representation Concerning Adequacy and Accuracy of Disclosures
- Representation in Franchise Renewal and Termination Matters
- Representation in Franchisor/Franchisee Disputes
- Franchise Mediation
- Franchise Arbitration
- Franchise Litigation