EXPERIENCE AND JUDGMENT are the key ingredients of effective and efficient legal services to companies doing business in the U.S. and internationally.
Seeing both the trees and the forest are essential to charting a course through the thicket of federal, state and global legal concerns. With years of experience in counseling companies on their U.S. and international business activities, we provide our clients with the advice and assistance they need to navigate through these business and legal issues. A global sales and marketing agreement may seem like an ordinary task to prepare. But does it account for your risks under antitrust laws? Does it protect your intellectual property? Does it satisfy those frightening institutional sentencing guidelines and fiduciary duty standards under such things as the FCPA and HIPAA? Are you accidentally engaging in a “deemed export” of technology without a license? Have you considered all of the known litigation risks in a transaction? Many legal disciplines need to be understood today in the global business marketplace. We pride ourselves in helping your business put all those pieces together. Through our network of offices in Washington D.C., Northern Virginia, and throughout the U.S. and overseas, we are able to provide our clients with the assistance they need to do business in today’s increasingly complex business environment.
We look at each of our clients’ businesses from their unique perspective. Our experienced advisors work with our clients in managing the legal issues they confront, drawing on our expertise in those areas of relevance to their businesses. Perhaps it is one of our lawyers experienced in foreign companies doing business in the U.S. Perhaps it is one of our transactional lawyers to negotiate and draft a financing or a contract. Perhaps it is one of our employment lawyers when crafting non disclosure agreements. Perhaps we may need to consult with one of our experienced white collar business crime experts for an issue of disclosure or financial reporting. Perhaps it is one of our government contract lawyers. Perhaps one of our civil trial lawyers for an assessment of risks, insurance coverage or choice of laws. And then we look at the whole forest to see the matter in full perspective with the benefit of our combined experience in counseling management.
The lawyers of Tighe Patton Armstrong Teasdale would like you to know about us—experienced, efficient, and prudent. Who are we? Here are just some examples. We would welcome the opportunity to be of assistance to your business.
- We have advised and assisted U.S. and overseas clients in transactions throughout the world, including international joint ventures, infrastructure projects, greenfields investments, purchases and sales of companies and assets and privatizations.
- We have negotiated over a dozen major offshore information technology services agreements, including between Indian IT providers and U.S. Fortune 500 companies.
- We have negotiated the full array of technology transfer and related agreements, including licensing agreements, development agreements and agreements to protect vital IP assets.
- We represent companies and individuals in SEC enforcement cases and in NASD arbitrations and court cases involving claimed violations of the federal securities laws.
- We have handled equity and debt financings, acquisitions and private venture capital.
- We regularly counsel and structure legal risk assessment, such as compliance programs to avoid violations of the myriad of criminal and civil laws to which a business is exposed.
- We understand and routinely advise clients on the U.S. federal regulatory scene as it applies to various regulated interests, including SEC financial reporting and Sarbanes Oxley, FCC telecom regulations, FTC consumer protection laws, and federal contracting regulations under FAR.
- We see the employment law and labor law risks that lurk in business activities and regularly counsel HR departments and engage in executive employment issues.
- We see the business tort exposures that may arise relating to issues of trade secrets, non-compete agreements, non-solicitation agreements, and tortuous interference issues.
Companies need seasoned counselors to help them navigate through the many issues that confront today’s managers. We at Tighe Patton Armstrong Teasdale take pride in our ability and track record in providing effective and efficient advice and assistance to our clients. We look forward to working as partners with our clients to help them succeed in their business endeavors.
For more information on our firm and how we can be of assistance to your business, please contact Thomas Patton (202) 454-2840.