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"They are very responsive, technically strong and efficient. You don't feel you are just another client, you feel you are an important one."

- CHAMBERS USA source

Bilzin Sumberg's Corporate Practice Group provides counsel to clients on a range of business activities that run the gamut of the corporate life cycle, from formation, financing and day-to-day operations to acquisitions, mergers, sales and exit strategies. The firm excels at anticipating client needs regardless of the stage of their business's maturity by developing deep familiarity with their operating environments in order to effectively tailor business and legal advice. Its robust practice has significant experience representing investors and companies across a broad range of industries.

Bilzin Sumberg attorneys have advised clients on periodic securities reporting and compliance, corporate governance, securities offerings, managing portfolio risk, structuring and implementing effective tax strategies, mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, and negotiating joint ventures, strategic alliances, technology arrangements, and customer/vendor relationships. The team represents issuers and underwriters in both public equity and debt capital transactions, including initial public offerings (IPOs) and follow-on offerings, rights offerings, and offerings of investment grade and high-yield bonds, including Rule 144A and Regulation S transactions.

EXPERIENCE
Experience
Representation of an energy company in its $9.45 billion all-cash acquisition of another energy company, resulting in the creation of the largest utility holding company in the United States.
Experience
Representation of national homebuilder in the restructuring of a joint venture for the development of Candlestick Point – a $7 billion development of the former San Francisco Giants baseball stadium, the largest redevelopment project in San Francisco since the Great Fire.
Experience
Representation of a debt fund and property fund in connection with separate private placement fund offerings of limited partnership interests. Upon completion of the offerings, the funds expect to raise a combined amount of up to $4.0 billion.
Experience
Representation of Oleta Partners, LLC, a joint venture comprised of affiliates of the LeFrak Organization and Turnberry Associates, in the successful negotiation of the long-term ground lease and complicated leasehold financing for a 185-acre brownfields redevelopment site in the City of North Miami...
Experience
Representation of majority shareholder and senior executives of LNR Property Corporation, then an NYSE company, in the $3.8 billion acquisition of LNR Property Corporation by LNR Property Holdings Ltd., an entity controlled by Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. Our clients retained a 25% interest in ...
Experience
Representation of LandSource Communities Development, a strategic joint venture between Lennar Corporation, LNR Property Corporation, and approximately 50 related subsidiaries and affiliates, in the negotiation, structuring, and closing of a $3.5 billion investment, joint venture, and refinancing tr...
INSIGHTS
Client Alert March 24, 2025
On March 21, 2025, FinCEN issued an Interim Rule that significantly narrows the scope of the Corporate Transparency Act. Under the new rule, domestic entities and U.S. persons are no longer required to file beneficial ownership reports, and enforcement against them has been suspended. Only certain f...
Client Alert March 4, 2025
On March 2, 2025, the Treasury Department announced that it will not enforce penalties for BOI reporting violations under the Corporate Transparency Act—both before and after upcoming rule changes take effect. While this reduces regulatory pressure on U.S. businesses, non-U.S. companies may st...
News February 27, 2025
Bilzin Sumberg is pleased to announce that Erin L. Stafford has been named a Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow for 2025.
Client Alert February 20, 2025
Following a federal court ruling, the Corporate Transparency Act has been reinstated and FinCEN has announced it has extended the deadline for most reporting companies to file the beneficial ownership information (BOI) report until March 21, 2025. For reporting companies that have not yet filed a BO...
News February 14, 2025
Bilzin Sumberg is pleased to announce that Alex M. Denault has joined the firm as a Partner in the Tax & Private Wealth and Corporate Groups. Alex brings with him nearly two decades of experience counseling clients on domestic and international income tax, mergers and acquisitions, and estate an...
Client Alert January 30, 2025
President Trump has signed an Executive Order that is set to fundamentally transform the regulatory environment for cryptocurrencies (“Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology”). The order has the potential to provide unprecedented opportunities to individual inv...
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