Mergers & Aquisitions
Ethos Law Group combines big law firm expertise and boutique law firm efficiency in its M&A practice. Our lawyers deliver technical excellence, superior negotiating skills, creative problem-solving, and attention to detail to each transaction.
Our M&A clients include small and middle-market private companies, private equity firms, boards of directors, selling shareholders, and management teams.
Through our deep relationships with various specialty-area lawyers, Ethos Law Group ensures a seamless service across the spectrum of disciplines necessary to execute an M&A transaction. Our M&A team includes lawyers who focus on tax, employment, intellectual property, real estate, executive compensation and employee benefits, litigation, ERISA, and industry-specific regulatory frameworks.
Ethos Law Group lawyers always seek to understand the nuances of our clients’ businesses and industries, and we bring to each engagement a tailored approach based on each client’s goals and challenges.
Technology Transactions
Ethos Law Group brings a cutting-edge approach to advising its clients in the purchase, licensing, development, and commercialization of intellectual property and technology. We represent established and emerging companies across the spectrum of industries and technologies. Representative industries include e-commerce, software, hardware, telecommunications, semiconductor, information technology, biotechnology and medical-device companies.
Some of the transactions on which Ethos Law Group regularly supports its clients are:
• Software licensing and other technology licensing
• Content licensing
• Technology acquisitions and divestments
• Technology development and manufacturing
• Distribution, supply, and OEM arrangements
• Reseller relationships
• Research and development
• Online advertising
We often represent clients in their negotiations with larger companies like Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, American Express, and Expedia.
Company Formations and Dissolutions
Choosing a legal entity (whether a corporation, LLC, limited partnership, or any other type of entity) is an important decision that can have lasting tax and legal consequences. For example, it is very important for founding partners to properly document their partnership in order to avoid partnership disputes and other troubles down the road.
Ethos Law Group brings rigor, clarity, and efficiency to the formation of new legal entities. Our processes are methodical, and we make sure our clients select the best business structure for their ventures and properly reflect partnership terms through a written agreement. We understand that it is always better to keep business structures as simple as possible.
Ethos Law Group has also supported many founders in the sale of their equity interests and the dissolution of their companies.
Commercial Transactions
Ethos Law Group has deep experience representing clients in a variety of commercial transactions. For example, we regularly assist clients regarding:
• Private offerings of equity and debt securities
• Equity relationships among founders, employees, investors
• Employment and consulting agreements
• Customer and vendor agreements
• Supply and distribution agreements
• Joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and partnerships
• Fund formation
• Equity and compensation-based incentive programs
Whatever the type of transaction or nature of our clients' concerns, our attorneys assist them in achieving their objectives, assessing benefits and risks, and closing transactions with the creativity, flexibility, and timeliness required to stay competitive in today's global marketplace.
“I made the mistake of acquiring a professional services business with a partner who I had never even worked with before. After a year of watching my investment dwindle away, I knew I had to make the hard decision of removing my partner as CFO and minority owner. Mark Sonnenklar and his team at the Ethos Law Group helped me take control of this difficult process. Ethos Law Group got me the results that were better than I had even hoped.”