Foley Hoag’s Corporate Finance and Securities Practice serves the needs of a diverse array of issuers, investment banks, venture capital and other private equity investors, investment advisors and private fund groups. We represent businesses in all stages of development—including the formative stages of incorporation, private placements of debt and equity securities, public offerings and post-IPO transactions through reporting and compliance.

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  • Foley Hoag Represents Inverness Medical Innovations in Transaction with Epocal, Inc.  [Read More]
  • Best Lawyers in America Names 27 Foley Hoag Lawyers to 2010 Guide  [Read More]

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  • SEC Adopts Enhanced Proxy Statement Disclosures Focusing on Compensation and Governance [Read More]
  • SEC Adopts New Short Selling Rule [Read More]
  • Investment Adviser Important Dates and Reminders [Read More]
  • SEC Adopts Revised Custody Rule Enhancing Controls That Apply To Registered Investment Advisers [Read More]
  • House Passes Bill Taxing Carried Interest Income as Ordinary Income [Read More]

Client Successes more

  • Brancote Holdings PC
    Our lawyers acted as special U.S. counsel to Brancote Holdings PC, an English public company, in its $240 million acquisition by a NYSE-listed Canadian mining company in a share-exchange offer under the London City Code. [Read More]
  • Initial Public Offerings
    Our lawyers successfully represented Cullinet Software, Inc. in its initial public offering, which was the first by a software product company. Since then, we have represented numerous issuers and underwriters in connection with initial public offerings, including Centra Software Inc. in its $80 million offering; and Net.Genesis Corp. in its $88 million offering. [Read More]