Corporate & Business

Durgin Otterson Bruzzone has broad and deep experience in corporate, commercial and securities law.  We work in a variety of industries, representing businesses engaged in everything from developing the most-cutting edge technology, to national retailers, movie production companies and heavy equipment manufacturers. 

We’ve represented clients in deals spanning five continents. While we represent a sizeable number of multinational corporations, we also represent large, national nonprofits and middle market and start-up companies.  

Our firm routinely provides the following general corporate, commercial and securities law services:

• Mergers and acquisitions

• Corporate, LLC and other entity formation, reorganization, divestiture and dissolution

• Preferred stock rights 

• Domestic and international joint ventures

• Formation of fund pools

• Executive compensation and other employment and consulting matters

• Stock option plans

• Startup counseling, including Stock Restriction Agreements and related documents

• Shareholder buy-sell agreements

• Commercial contracts, including vendor/supplier, distribution and reseller contracts

• Negotiation of credit facilities, asset-based loans and other bank and institutional lending arrangements 

• Corporate governance

• “Friends and family”, seed, angel and venture capital and debt financing

• Private placements

• ’33 and ’34 Act filings and blue sky law compliance

• Nondisclosure and trade secret protection agreements