Kummer Kaempfer

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Business Entities, Securites & Acquisitions

Kummer Kaempfer's business transactions attorneys have built a reputation for excellence and for providing the highest quality legal advice and service to the Firm’s clients. Our attorneys understand the unique goals and expectations of each client. The extensive legal and business experience of our attorneys help deliver solid results for our clients. Our attorneys understand that businesses operate on budgets, and for that reason, the staffing of each transaction is dictated according to the needs, complexity and economics of our client’s business situation.

Our attorneys are experienced in a variety of business transactions and often work with the Firm's other practice groups to create client service teams that are the most effective for the situation and for our client. The Firm's approach is guided by our constant desire to optimize our clients' objectives and goals.

Chambers & Partners, USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, has described the attorneys in the Firm's  business transactions group as an “experienced and well-rounded team” of corporate transactional attorneys… nationally renowned for its securities… expertise.”

Transactional Experience Areas

  • Business entity formation
  • Certain intellectual property matters, including trademarks, copyrights and rights of publicity
  • Commercial and contract law
  • Corporate governance, including effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  • Gaming regulatory law
  • Mergers, acquisitions and changes of control
  • Nevada governmental agency representation
  • Real estate acquisitions, sales and finance
  • Federal and state securities law
  • Venture capital and emerging business finance

Awards & Rankings

Individual members of the Business Transactions Group honored by:

Martindale Hubbell (AV Ratings)

  • Several of the Firm’s partners and attorneys have been recognized with AV and BV ratings from the highly respected legal ranking organization Martindale Hubbell
  • An AV rating is a significant accomplishment — a testament to the fact that a lawyer’s peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence. The BV is also an excellent rating

Chambers USA

The “experienced and well-rounded team” of 13 corporate transactional attorneys is nationally renowned for its securities… expertise. The group covers the gamut of issues, acting as general counsel and securities counsel to boards of directors in corporate governance acquisitions. The department also handles debt, equity and public-private transactions, M&A, private sale and counseling.

“One of the best groups for entitlement work and government relations,” the land use and government affairs group handles zoning and governmental approvals for clients with development and construction projects in state. The lawyers have earned a reputation throughout the state for their zoning expertise, but in recent years the firm has branched out into more general real estate matters including transactional and regulatory work.

The Best Lawyers in America

  • The 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America has recognized attorneys of the Business. Transactions Group in the areas of Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  • Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review. The publication has been a leading referral guide in the legal industry for 25 years
  • Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition
  • The Firm has been recognized in the area of business and corporate law

Transaction Highlights

  • Special Nevada counsel to the independent committee of the board of directors in a multi-billion dollar "going private" transaction for a publicly held gaming resort operator
  • Lead corporate and SEC counsel in the sale of a hotel-casino company
  • Lead M&A and SEC counsel to acquired NYSE-listed gaming companies
  • Lead counsel to Nevada-based home builders in acquisitions by national homebuilding companies
  • Lead counsel to major Nevada-based retailer in acquisition by private equity group
  • Special counsel to management team in acquisition of major mechanical contractor by private equity group
  • Nevada gaming counsel in acquisitions of several Nevada hotel casinos
  • Regulatory monitoring counsel on behalf of hedge funds in connection with major publicly held gaming company mergers and going private transactions
  • Special counsel to independent committee of board of directors in merger of three publicly held companies
  • Lead M&A, SEC and Nevada gaming counsel in change of control of publicly held manufacturing company
  • Special local Nevada counsel for numerous mergers and acquisitions for purposes of counseling and opining on Nevada corporate matters
  • Nevada gaming regulatory counsel to variety of casino operators, gaming manufacturers and distributors, lenders and investors in compliance with gaming laws and regulations
  • Lead counsel in major internal business entity restructuring
  • Lead counsel on major financing transactions for one of the largest residential home developers in Nevada

Attorneys

Eric T. Blum
Michael J. Bonner
John N. Brewer
William J. Crowell, Jr.
Scott L. Halvorsen
John C. Jeppsen
Neal A. Klegerman
Steven Pacitti
Jordan Pinjuv
Michael S. Shalmy
Steven E. Tackes
Eric Willis

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