Balch & Bingham is actively engaged in the formation of business entities and in advising clients in a wide variety of corporate transactions, mergers & acquisitions, corporate financings, and securities law compliance matters. The firm also regularly advises public and private companies with respect to state law fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders, directors’ and officers’ liability, inquiries from analysts and the financial press, mergers and acquisitions, corporate borrowings and banking relationships, securities law compliance, tax matters, executive compensation matters, and other corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Within this broad practice, our Corporate & Commercial team is best known for its work with clients in heavily regulated industries, including utilities and independent power producers, private equity, and securities and capital markets. Our attorneys bring years of hands-on experience navigating compliance matters under the SEC, FINRA, FERC, NERC, EPA, FTC, and local regulatory bodies. That regulatory grounding carries directly into our M&A work, where we represent financial and strategic buyers and sellers through every stage of a deal, including negotiated and auction transactions, as well as multi-party consortium structures and other complex deals.