Company Services
wiggin(x) works with companies and founders to negotiate and structure deals with those who plan to invest in the company. When working with investors, we review targets, structure deals, and dig into due diligence. And, in either case, at every stage of the financing process, we provide sound and creative counsel.
How do you protect yourself when considering accepting investment from abroad, or investing in a U.S. business? wiggin(x) works with U.S. and international clients to provide practical, effective, and business-sensitive guidance on foreign investment compliance, including performing diligence on proposed foreign investors and U.S. investment targets, determining the export classification of a target’s technology/products (essential under foreign investment rules, even if the target never exports anything), assessing historical export compliance and addressing deficits to minimize successor liability, and preparing mandatory and voluntary submissions to the Committee on Foreign Investment Control (CFIUS).
wiggin(x) helps simplify the complex. Whether your company is merging, buying or selling stock or assets, transferring or acquiring product lines, entering a joint venture, or making an equity investment, we walk you through the details, making the complicated feel manageable.
Cybersecurity is essential for any business that values data and relies on networks and digital systems to conduct operations. wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to conduct risk assessment, develop and implement information security policies, and design employee training programs. We track evolving domestic and international laws and regulations to help you manage risk and respond effectively to data breaches.
In business, your people are your greatest assets. wiggin(x) works with you to prepare offer letters and employment agreements, and draft and review employee handbooks and policies to protect those assets. As you continue to evolve, we provide counsel on personnel practices and employment decisions such as terminations, the enforcement of restrictive covenants, and compensation disputes.
How you form your company today will have a major impact on your future. wiggin(x) will help you select and form the right entity for your business, be it an LLC, S corp, or C corp. We will walk you through the alternatives, focusing on how each form may affect taxes, costs, personnel and strategic partner decisions, and attractiveness to future investors and lenders.
As outsourced general counsel or as additional support for your internal legal team, wiggin(x) lawyers provide counsel on general corporate governance, shareholder/member matters, cap table management, equity plan creation, and oversight. We review and negotiate commercial contracts, including financing agreements and commercial real estate leases. We also advise on employment and consulting documentation, intellectual property matters, and restrictive covenant agreements, among a variety of other services delivered when and how you need them.
Corporate governance isn’t just for big public companies. A clear governance structure sets up your business to grow sustainably and to attract investors. wiggin(x) lawyers help you put the right architecture in place to guide your company now and into the future.
We live in a global marketplace, and your talent opportunities may expand beyond our borders. For emerging companies that want to utilize global talent, wiggin(x) helps navigate the system that will allow you to provide U.S. work authorization sponsorship while complying with the maze of regulatory requirements. We create a customized immigration and compliance strategy to address both short-term and long-term goals, helping you to hire and retain the best talent for your U.S. entity, and to send U.S. employees abroad. From formation to maturity, we provide counsel for immigration and incidental tax, employment, corporate structure, and international compliance matters.
You keep dreaming up new ideas, and we’ll help ensure they are protected. As your trusted partner, wiggin(x) works through all the complex foundational IP questions with you, determining what IP your business has, how best to protect it, and what to do when IP is infringed, stolen, or misappropriated. We’ll help you acquire, enforce, and defend patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and determine how to best protect your trade secrets.
A true licensing practice requires a multidisciplinary blend of skill sets that spans technology, business, and law: wiggin(x) is fluent in each. wiggin(x) lawyers assist startups with critical licensing and collaboration endeavors, whether their technology is homegrown or licensed from a university or other partner. We have extensive experience with in-licensing and out-licensing technologies and products of all types, including related patents, copyrights, data, know-how, and software. Our licensing team partners with startups, founders, and their collaborators by advising on strategy, helping structure deals and drafting and negotiating their technology transactions. Our team also assists early-stage investors to analyze and understand the benefits and risks of collaborations, strategic alliances, and mission-critical technology and IP licenses, all core strategic assets of startups.
wiggin(x) helps founders and early-stage companies protect their innovations with patents and develop patent portfolios into competitive tools that align with the business and company vision. We prepare and prosecute U.S. and foreign patent applications and stand ready to help you enforce your patent rights against infringers. If the validity of your patents is challenged at the Patent Office or in court, we can skillfully handle these proceedings to preserve and confirm the validity of your patents. We also work with you to identify and negotiate strategic licenses to generate revenue from your patented innovations and discoveries.
When contemplating a strategic partnership or joint venture, clarity at the outset is vital to its success. Whether you want to work with another enterprise or entrepreneur on a specific project or objective, or if you envision a long-term partnership, wiggin(x) lawyers will talk through the various options with you, helping you discern your next move. We help you structure, negotiate, and implement these relationships, so that you feel confident from the outset.
wiggin(x) tax attorneys help startups determine the most tax-advantageous structure for their operation and understand the tax ramifications of changes in that structure. We also provide tax planning for the eventual sale of the company, as well as joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Whether onshore, offshore, or near-shore, wiggin(x) lawyers can structure, negotiate, and document your technology transactions start to finish. Our experience spans diverse industries, including software and cloud services, AI, fintech, health care, engineering, data analytics, biotech, energy, and telecommunications, among others. Our team consistently provides reliable, flexible, and scalable advice on transactions affecting both day-to-day operations and long-term, strategic implementations.
The ability to store and transfer vast amounts of data, employee portability, and the proliferation of bad actors have made trade secrets even more critical IP assets to protect than before. wiggin(x) works with companies to create trade secret policies, practices, and agreements to protect your rights and your core IP. In addition, when an employee is leaving an old job or starting a new one, we work with companies and entrepreneurs to navigate any potential trade secret issues. Finally, when disputes involving trade secret claims arise, we assist companies and employees in assessing and navigating them.
wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to develop and maintain the right portfolio of marks for your products and services and aid in your marketing, distribution, licensing, and enforcement strategies—both domestically and worldwide. We also counsel clients on a wide range of copyright services, including fair use, works made for hire, and the protection and licensing of all types of copyrighted works. Our lawyers also work with our litigation group on trademark and copyright litigation matters, including matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
wiggin(x) works with companies and founders to negotiate and structure deals with those who plan to invest in the company. When working with investors, we review targets, structure deals, and dig into due diligence. And, in either case, at every stage of the financing process, we provide sound and creative counsel.
How do you protect yourself when considering accepting investment from abroad, or investing in a U.S. business? wiggin(x) works with U.S. and international clients to provide practical, effective, and business-sensitive guidance on foreign investment compliance, including performing diligence on proposed foreign investors and U.S. investment targets, determining the export classification of a target’s technology/products (essential under foreign investment rules, even if the target never exports anything), assessing historical export compliance and addressing deficits to minimize successor liability, and preparing mandatory and voluntary submissions to the Committee on Foreign Investment Control (CFIUS).
wiggin(x) helps simplify the complex. Whether your company is merging, buying or selling stock or assets, transferring or acquiring product lines, entering a joint venture, or making an equity investment, we walk you through the details, making the complicated feel manageable.
Cybersecurity is essential for any business that values data and relies on networks and digital systems to conduct operations. wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to conduct risk assessment, develop and implement information security policies, and design employee training programs. We track evolving domestic and international laws and regulations to help you manage risk and respond effectively to data breaches.
In business, your people are your greatest assets. wiggin(x) works with you to prepare offer letters and employment agreements, and draft and review employee handbooks and policies to protect those assets. As you continue to evolve, we provide counsel on personnel practices and employment decisions such as terminations, the enforcement of restrictive covenants, and compensation disputes.
How you form your company today will have a major impact on your future. wiggin(x) will help you select and form the right entity for your business, be it an LLC, S corp, or C corp. We will walk you through the alternatives, focusing on how each form may affect taxes, costs, personnel and strategic partner decisions, and attractiveness to future investors and lenders.
As outsourced general counsel or as additional support for your internal legal team, wiggin(x) lawyers provide counsel on general corporate governance, shareholder/member matters, cap table management, equity plan creation, and oversight. We review and negotiate commercial contracts, including financing agreements and commercial real estate leases. We also advise on employment and consulting documentation, intellectual property matters, and restrictive covenant agreements, among a variety of other services delivered when and how you need them.
Corporate governance isn’t just for big public companies. A clear governance structure sets up your business to grow sustainably and to attract investors. wiggin(x) lawyers help you put the right architecture in place to guide your company now and into the future.
We live in a global marketplace, and your talent opportunities may expand beyond our borders. For emerging companies that want to utilize global talent, wiggin(x) helps navigate the system that will allow you to provide U.S. work authorization sponsorship while complying with the maze of regulatory requirements. We create a customized immigration and compliance strategy to address both short-term and long-term goals, helping you to hire and retain the best talent for your U.S. entity, and to send U.S. employees abroad. From formation to maturity, we provide counsel for immigration and incidental tax, employment, corporate structure, and international compliance matters.
You keep dreaming up new ideas, and we’ll help ensure they are protected. As your trusted partner, wiggin(x) works through all the complex foundational IP questions with you, determining what IP your business has, how best to protect it, and what to do when IP is infringed, stolen, or misappropriated. We’ll help you acquire, enforce, and defend patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and determine how to best protect your trade secrets.
A true licensing practice requires a multidisciplinary blend of skill sets that spans technology, business, and law: wiggin(x) is fluent in each. wiggin(x) lawyers assist startups with critical licensing and collaboration endeavors, whether their technology is homegrown or licensed from a university or other partner. We have extensive experience with in-licensing and out-licensing technologies and products of all types, including related patents, copyrights, data, know-how, and software. Our licensing team partners with startups, founders, and their collaborators by advising on strategy, helping structure deals and drafting and negotiating their technology transactions. Our team also assists early-stage investors to analyze and understand the benefits and risks of collaborations, strategic alliances, and mission-critical technology and IP licenses, all core strategic assets of startups.
wiggin(x) helps founders and early-stage companies protect their innovations with patents and develop patent portfolios into competitive tools that align with the business and company vision. We prepare and prosecute U.S. and foreign patent applications and stand ready to help you enforce your patent rights against infringers. If the validity of your patents is challenged at the Patent Office or in court, we can skillfully handle these proceedings to preserve and confirm the validity of your patents. We also work with you to identify and negotiate strategic licenses to generate revenue from your patented innovations and discoveries.
When contemplating a strategic partnership or joint venture, clarity at the outset is vital to its success. Whether you want to work with another enterprise or entrepreneur on a specific project or objective, or if you envision a long-term partnership, wiggin(x) lawyers will talk through the various options with you, helping you discern your next move. We help you structure, negotiate, and implement these relationships, so that you feel confident from the outset.
wiggin(x) tax attorneys help startups determine the most tax-advantageous structure for their operation and understand the tax ramifications of changes in that structure. We also provide tax planning for the eventual sale of the company, as well as joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Whether onshore, offshore, or near-shore, wiggin(x) lawyers can structure, negotiate, and document your technology transactions start to finish. Our experience spans diverse industries, including software and cloud services, AI, fintech, health care, engineering, data analytics, biotech, energy, and telecommunications, among others. Our team consistently provides reliable, flexible, and scalable advice on transactions affecting both day-to-day operations and long-term, strategic implementations.
The ability to store and transfer vast amounts of data, employee portability, and the proliferation of bad actors have made trade secrets even more critical IP assets to protect than before. wiggin(x) works with companies to create trade secret policies, practices, and agreements to protect your rights and your core IP. In addition, when an employee is leaving an old job or starting a new one, we work with companies and entrepreneurs to navigate any potential trade secret issues. Finally, when disputes involving trade secret claims arise, we assist companies and employees in assessing and navigating them.
wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to develop and maintain the right portfolio of marks for your products and services and aid in your marketing, distribution, licensing, and enforcement strategies—both domestically and worldwide. We also counsel clients on a wide range of copyright services, including fair use, works made for hire, and the protection and licensing of all types of copyrighted works. Our lawyers also work with our litigation group on trademark and copyright litigation matters, including matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
wiggin(x) works with companies and founders to negotiate and structure deals with those who plan to invest in the company. When working with investors, we review targets, structure deals, and dig into due diligence. And, in either case, at every stage of the financing process, we provide sound and creative counsel.
wiggin(x) helps simplify the complex. Whether your company is merging, buying or selling stock or assets, transferring or acquiring product lines, entering a joint venture, or making an equity investment, we walk you through the details, making the complicated feel manageable.
When raising funds through debt, options abound. wiggin(x) will explore these choices with you. Whether it’s bonds, bank loans, venture debt, or nontraditional lenders, we will help structure and negotiate debt financing to allow your company to achieve its goals.
Preparing for due diligence begins long before a deal commences. Companies cannot afford to underestimate the rigor and scrutiny of due diligence from investors, lenders, strategic partners, and underwriters. wiggin(x) works with you to ensure your company is appropriately structured, scalable, and positioned for growth, and we help you organize your internal recordkeeping to ensure that you put your best foot forward.
Corporate governance isn’t just for big public companies. A clear governance structure sets up your business to grow sustainably and to attract investors. wiggin(x) lawyers help you put the right architecture in place to guide your company now and into the future.
When your business is entering a new market, implementing a structural change, or pursuing a large growth opportunity, we’ll be there to structure, negotiate, and close investments to raise the capital needed to take you to the next level of success.
The wiggin(x) team counsels private equity funds, portfolio companies, and company-targets in buy-side, sell-side, and strategic alliance transactions, working across industries ranging from bio to tech, manufacturing, and many others. International or domestic, any stage of the investment life cycle, LBO, going private, or carve-out, you can trust our experience to guide you through the process.
When contemplating a strategic partnership or joint venture, clarity at the outset is vital to its success. Whether you want to work with another enterprise or entrepreneur on a specific project or objective, or if you envision a long-term partnership, wiggin(x) lawyers will talk through the various options with you, helping you discern your next move. We help you structure, negotiate, and implement these relationships, so that you feel confident from the outset.
wiggin(x) tax attorneys help startups determine the most tax-advantageous structure for their operation and understand the tax ramifications of changes in that structure. We also provide tax planning for the eventual sale of the company, as well as joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
wiggin(x) venture capital lawyers work with emerging company clients to ensure that they are appropriately structured, scalable, and positioned for growth and a liquidity event. Our attorneys help clients withstand the rigorous due diligence scrutiny of investors, lenders, strategic partners, and underwriters. We negotiate and structure deals to help emerging companies continue to grow and thrive.
wiggin(x) lawyers work with venture capital firms, family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and other investors to dial in success. We help review their targets, structure their investments, and accomplish their business objectives.
wiggin(x) works with companies and founders to negotiate and structure deals with those who plan to invest in the company. When working with investors, we review targets, structure deals, and dig into due diligence. And, in either case, at every stage of the financing process, we provide sound and creative counsel.
wiggin(x) helps simplify the complex. Whether your company is merging, buying or selling stock or assets, transferring or acquiring product lines, entering a joint venture, or making an equity investment, we walk you through the details, making the complicated feel manageable.
When raising funds through debt, options abound. wiggin(x) will explore these choices with you. Whether it’s bonds, bank loans, venture debt, or nontraditional lenders, we will help structure and negotiate debt financing to allow your company to achieve its goals.
Preparing for due diligence begins long before a deal commences. Companies cannot afford to underestimate the rigor and scrutiny of due diligence from investors, lenders, strategic partners, and underwriters. wiggin(x) works with you to ensure your company is appropriately structured, scalable, and positioned for growth, and we help you organize your internal recordkeeping to ensure that you put your best foot forward.
Corporate governance isn’t just for big public companies. A clear governance structure sets up your business to grow sustainably and to attract investors. wiggin(x) lawyers help you put the right architecture in place to guide your company now and into the future.
When your business is entering a new market, implementing a structural change, or pursuing a large growth opportunity, we’ll be there to structure, negotiate, and close investments to raise the capital needed to take you to the next level of success.
The wiggin(x) team counsels private equity funds, portfolio companies, and company-targets in buy-side, sell-side, and strategic alliance transactions, working across industries ranging from bio to tech, manufacturing, and many others. International or domestic, any stage of the investment life cycle, LBO, going private, or carve-out, you can trust our experience to guide you through the process.
When contemplating a strategic partnership or joint venture, clarity at the outset is vital to its success. Whether you want to work with another enterprise or entrepreneur on a specific project or objective, or if you envision a long-term partnership, wiggin(x) lawyers will talk through the various options with you, helping you discern your next move. We help you structure, negotiate, and implement these relationships, so that you feel confident from the outset.
wiggin(x) tax attorneys help startups determine the most tax-advantageous structure for their operation and understand the tax ramifications of changes in that structure. We also provide tax planning for the eventual sale of the company, as well as joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
wiggin(x) venture capital lawyers work with emerging company clients to ensure that they are appropriately structured, scalable, and positioned for growth and a liquidity event. Our attorneys help clients withstand the rigorous due diligence scrutiny of investors, lenders, strategic partners, and underwriters. We negotiate and structure deals to help emerging companies continue to grow and thrive.
wiggin(x) lawyers work with venture capital firms, family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and other investors to dial in success. We help review their targets, structure their investments, and accomplish their business objectives.
wiggin(x) helps simplify the complex. Whether your company is merging, buying or selling stock or assets, transferring or acquiring product lines, entering a joint venture, or making an equity investment, we walk you through the details, making the complicated feel manageable.
Cybersecurity is essential for any business that values data and relies on networks and digital systems to conduct operations. wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to conduct risk assessment, develop and implement information security policies, and design employee training programs. We track evolving domestic and international laws and regulations to help you manage risk and respond effectively to data breaches.
When raising funds through debt, options abound. wiggin(x) will explore these choices with you. Whether it’s bonds, bank loans, venture debt, or nontraditional lenders, we will help structure and negotiate debt financing to allow your company to achieve its goals.
The best way to win litigation is to avoid it, but that’s not always possible. Young companies need to be prepared for all outcomes. wiggin(x) litigators have the experience and skill to handle virtually any type of dispute that a startup or emerging company may encounter, including but not limited to consumer class action claims, disputes with vendors, lawsuits against or by competitors, intellectual property and patent claims, or even a claim from one of its own investors or members. We understand that litigation often has “bet-the-company” implications for emerging companies and will help you navigate the best path and strategy for protecting your business.
In business, your people are your greatest assets. wiggin(x) works with you to prepare offer letters and employment agreements, and draft and review employee handbooks and policies to protect those assets. As you continue to evolve, we provide counsel on personnel practices and employment decisions such as terminations, the enforcement of restrictive covenants, and compensation disputes.
EHS compliance is vital to a successful startup, as violations can lead to agency enforcement, penalty assessment, and reputational damage. For emerging companies, wiggin(x) provides practical advice regarding required approvals and permits to ensure that operations are not delayed. We also defend against EHS litigation and enforcement actions, negotiate EHS risks in business transactions, and assist in rulemaking proceedings and regulatory challenges. For investors, our EHS lawyers assist with diligence regarding startup EHS risks, compliance, and liabilities.
As outsourced general counsel or as additional support for your internal legal team, wiggin(x) lawyers provide counsel on general corporate governance, shareholder/member matters, cap table management, equity plan creation, and oversight. We review and negotiate commercial contracts, including financing agreements and commercial real estate leases. We also advise on employment and consulting documentation, intellectual property matters, and restrictive covenant agreements, among a variety of other services delivered when and how you need them.
Corporate governance isn’t just for big public companies. A clear governance structure sets up your business to grow sustainably and to attract investors. wiggin(x) lawyers help you put the right architecture in place to guide your company now and into the future.
When your business is entering a new market, implementing a structural change, or pursuing a large growth opportunity, we’ll be there to structure, negotiate, and close investments to raise the capital needed to take you to the next level of success.
We live in a global marketplace, and your talent opportunities may expand beyond our borders. For emerging companies that want to utilize global talent, wiggin(x) helps navigate the system that will allow you to provide U.S. work authorization sponsorship while complying with the maze of regulatory requirements. We create a customized immigration and compliance strategy to address both short-term and long-term goals, helping you to hire and retain the best talent for your U.S. entity, and to send U.S. employees abroad. From formation to maturity, we provide counsel for immigration and incidental tax, employment, corporate structure, and international compliance matters.
You keep dreaming up new ideas, and we’ll help ensure they are protected. As your trusted partner, wiggin(x) works through all the complex foundational IP questions with you, determining what IP your business has, how best to protect it, and what to do when IP is infringed, stolen, or misappropriated. We’ll help you acquire, enforce, and defend patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and determine how to best protect your trade secrets.
When IP disputes arise, whether on behalf of the IP owner or the accused infringer, wiggin(x) can help to resolve them. We provide strategic counseling and represent clients in negotiations, mediations, arbitrations, at the patent and trademark office, and in court proceedings. Our practical, business-oriented viewpoint keeps our focus on your business goals and the most expeditious way to meet them.
wiggin(x) provides effective, risk-based, and business-sensitive guidance on foreign investment (CFIUS), financial sanctions (OFAC), export (ITAR, EAR), anti-corruption (FCPA), and other global trade matters. Our team of former government and in-house lawyers explain the regulatory requirements, conduct M&A and investment due diligence, prepare CFIUS filings, defend against government enforcement actions, pursue licenses and permits, and create practical, right-sized compliance programs.
A true licensing practice requires a multidisciplinary blend of skill sets that spans technology, business, and law: wiggin(x) is fluent in each. wiggin(x) lawyers assist startups with critical licensing and collaboration endeavors, whether their technology is homegrown or licensed from a university or other partner. We have extensive experience with in-licensing and out-licensing technologies and products of all types, including related patents, copyrights, data, know-how, and software. Our licensing team partners with startups, founders, and their collaborators by advising on strategy, helping structure deals and drafting and negotiating their technology transactions. Our team also assists early-stage investors to analyze and understand the benefits and risks of collaborations, strategic alliances, and mission-critical technology and IP licenses, all core strategic assets of startups.
wiggin(x) represents clients on the buy- and sell-side, advising on complexities that may arise, including transaction/tax structuring, intellectual property, antitrust regulations, foreign investment rules, employee transition, and securities laws, among others. Our transactions range from acquihires to significant upside exits, for newly launched startups to mature companies, and everyone in between.
wiggin(x) helps founders and early-stage companies protect their innovations with patents and develop patent portfolios into competitive tools that align with the business and company vision. We prepare and prosecute U.S. and foreign patent applications and stand ready to help you enforce your patent rights against infringers. If the validity of your patents is challenged at the Patent Office or in court, we can skillfully handle these proceedings to preserve and confirm the validity of your patents. We also work with you to identify and negotiate strategic licenses to generate revenue from your patented innovations and discoveries.
wiggin(x) lawyers counsel businesses on all aspects of commercial real estate, including buying, selling, leasing, developing, and operating retail, office, manufacturing, distribution, and research space for both large and small portfolios. Our services include structuring and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, leases, and architectural, engineering, and construction contracts as well as advising clients on environmental and energy matters.
For a variety of regulatory frameworks, wiggin(x) can help you understand your legal responsibilities and manage your risk. Our extensive experience and established rapport with regulators allows us to interface on your behalf and help achieve desired outcomes. Our regulatory compliance teams take a pragmatic approach, with the aim to minimize the impact of regulations on your day-to-day operations and maximize your business opportunities.
When contemplating a strategic partnership or joint venture, clarity at the outset is vital to its success. Whether you want to work with another enterprise or entrepreneur on a specific project or objective, or if you envision a long-term partnership, wiggin(x) lawyers will talk through the various options with you, helping you discern your next move. We help you structure, negotiate, and implement these relationships, so that you feel confident from the outset.
wiggin(x) tax attorneys help startups determine the most tax-advantageous structure for their operation and understand the tax ramifications of changes in that structure. We also provide tax planning for the eventual sale of the company, as well as joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Whether onshore, offshore, or near-shore, wiggin(x) lawyers can structure, negotiate, and document your technology transactions start to finish. Our experience spans diverse industries, including software and cloud services, AI, fintech, health care, engineering, data analytics, biotech, energy, and telecommunications, among others. Our team consistently provides reliable, flexible, and scalable advice on transactions affecting both day-to-day operations and long-term, strategic implementations.
The ability to store and transfer vast amounts of data, employee portability, and the proliferation of bad actors have made trade secrets even more critical IP assets to protect than before. wiggin(x) works with companies to create trade secret policies, practices, and agreements to protect your rights and your core IP. In addition, when an employee is leaving an old job or starting a new one, we work with companies and entrepreneurs to navigate any potential trade secret issues. Finally, when disputes involving trade secret claims arise, we assist companies and employees in assessing and navigating them.
wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to develop and maintain the right portfolio of marks for your products and services and aid in your marketing, distribution, licensing, and enforcement strategies—both domestically and worldwide. We also counsel clients on a wide range of copyright services, including fair use, works made for hire, and the protection and licensing of all types of copyrighted works. Our lawyers also work with our litigation group on trademark and copyright litigation matters, including matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
wiggin(x) helps simplify the complex. Whether your company is merging, buying or selling stock or assets, transferring or acquiring product lines, entering a joint venture, or making an equity investment, we walk you through the details, making the complicated feel manageable.
Cybersecurity is essential for any business that values data and relies on networks and digital systems to conduct operations. wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to conduct risk assessment, develop and implement information security policies, and design employee training programs. We track evolving domestic and international laws and regulations to help you manage risk and respond effectively to data breaches.
When raising funds through debt, options abound. wiggin(x) will explore these choices with you. Whether it’s bonds, bank loans, venture debt, or nontraditional lenders, we will help structure and negotiate debt financing to allow your company to achieve its goals.
The best way to win litigation is to avoid it, but that’s not always possible. Young companies need to be prepared for all outcomes. wiggin(x) litigators have the experience and skill to handle virtually any type of dispute that a startup or emerging company may encounter, including but not limited to consumer class action claims, disputes with vendors, lawsuits against or by competitors, intellectual property and patent claims, or even a claim from one of its own investors or members. We understand that litigation often has “bet-the-company” implications for emerging companies and will help you navigate the best path and strategy for protecting your business.
In business, your people are your greatest assets. wiggin(x) works with you to prepare offer letters and employment agreements, and draft and review employee handbooks and policies to protect those assets. As you continue to evolve, we provide counsel on personnel practices and employment decisions such as terminations, the enforcement of restrictive covenants, and compensation disputes.
EHS compliance is vital to a successful startup, as violations can lead to agency enforcement, penalty assessment, and reputational damage. For emerging companies, wiggin(x) provides practical advice regarding required approvals and permits to ensure that operations are not delayed. We also defend against EHS litigation and enforcement actions, negotiate EHS risks in business transactions, and assist in rulemaking proceedings and regulatory challenges. For investors, our EHS lawyers assist with diligence regarding startup EHS risks, compliance, and liabilities.
As outsourced general counsel or as additional support for your internal legal team, wiggin(x) lawyers provide counsel on general corporate governance, shareholder/member matters, cap table management, equity plan creation, and oversight. We review and negotiate commercial contracts, including financing agreements and commercial real estate leases. We also advise on employment and consulting documentation, intellectual property matters, and restrictive covenant agreements, among a variety of other services delivered when and how you need them.
Corporate governance isn’t just for big public companies. A clear governance structure sets up your business to grow sustainably and to attract investors. wiggin(x) lawyers help you put the right architecture in place to guide your company now and into the future.
When your business is entering a new market, implementing a structural change, or pursuing a large growth opportunity, we’ll be there to structure, negotiate, and close investments to raise the capital needed to take you to the next level of success.
We live in a global marketplace, and your talent opportunities may expand beyond our borders. For emerging companies that want to utilize global talent, wiggin(x) helps navigate the system that will allow you to provide U.S. work authorization sponsorship while complying with the maze of regulatory requirements. We create a customized immigration and compliance strategy to address both short-term and long-term goals, helping you to hire and retain the best talent for your U.S. entity, and to send U.S. employees abroad. From formation to maturity, we provide counsel for immigration and incidental tax, employment, corporate structure, and international compliance matters.
You keep dreaming up new ideas, and we’ll help ensure they are protected. As your trusted partner, wiggin(x) works through all the complex foundational IP questions with you, determining what IP your business has, how best to protect it, and what to do when IP is infringed, stolen, or misappropriated. We’ll help you acquire, enforce, and defend patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and determine how to best protect your trade secrets.
When IP disputes arise, whether on behalf of the IP owner or the accused infringer, wiggin(x) can help to resolve them. We provide strategic counseling and represent clients in negotiations, mediations, arbitrations, at the patent and trademark office, and in court proceedings. Our practical, business-oriented viewpoint keeps our focus on your business goals and the most expeditious way to meet them.
wiggin(x) provides effective, risk-based, and business-sensitive guidance on foreign investment (CFIUS), financial sanctions (OFAC), export (ITAR, EAR), anti-corruption (FCPA), and other global trade matters. Our team of former government and in-house lawyers explain the regulatory requirements, conduct M&A and investment due diligence, prepare CFIUS filings, defend against government enforcement actions, pursue licenses and permits, and create practical, right-sized compliance programs.
A true licensing practice requires a multidisciplinary blend of skill sets that spans technology, business, and law: wiggin(x) is fluent in each. wiggin(x) lawyers assist startups with critical licensing and collaboration endeavors, whether their technology is homegrown or licensed from a university or other partner. We have extensive experience with in-licensing and out-licensing technologies and products of all types, including related patents, copyrights, data, know-how, and software. Our licensing team partners with startups, founders, and their collaborators by advising on strategy, helping structure deals and drafting and negotiating their technology transactions. Our team also assists early-stage investors to analyze and understand the benefits and risks of collaborations, strategic alliances, and mission-critical technology and IP licenses, all core strategic assets of startups.
wiggin(x) represents clients on the buy- and sell-side, advising on complexities that may arise, including transaction/tax structuring, intellectual property, antitrust regulations, foreign investment rules, employee transition, and securities laws, among others. Our transactions range from acquihires to significant upside exits, for newly launched startups to mature companies, and everyone in between.
wiggin(x) helps founders and early-stage companies protect their innovations with patents and develop patent portfolios into competitive tools that align with the business and company vision. We prepare and prosecute U.S. and foreign patent applications and stand ready to help you enforce your patent rights against infringers. If the validity of your patents is challenged at the Patent Office or in court, we can skillfully handle these proceedings to preserve and confirm the validity of your patents. We also work with you to identify and negotiate strategic licenses to generate revenue from your patented innovations and discoveries.
wiggin(x) lawyers counsel businesses on all aspects of commercial real estate, including buying, selling, leasing, developing, and operating retail, office, manufacturing, distribution, and research space for both large and small portfolios. Our services include structuring and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, leases, and architectural, engineering, and construction contracts as well as advising clients on environmental and energy matters.
For a variety of regulatory frameworks, wiggin(x) can help you understand your legal responsibilities and manage your risk. Our extensive experience and established rapport with regulators allows us to interface on your behalf and help achieve desired outcomes. Our regulatory compliance teams take a pragmatic approach, with the aim to minimize the impact of regulations on your day-to-day operations and maximize your business opportunities.
When contemplating a strategic partnership or joint venture, clarity at the outset is vital to its success. Whether you want to work with another enterprise or entrepreneur on a specific project or objective, or if you envision a long-term partnership, wiggin(x) lawyers will talk through the various options with you, helping you discern your next move. We help you structure, negotiate, and implement these relationships, so that you feel confident from the outset.
wiggin(x) tax attorneys help startups determine the most tax-advantageous structure for their operation and understand the tax ramifications of changes in that structure. We also provide tax planning for the eventual sale of the company, as well as joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Whether onshore, offshore, or near-shore, wiggin(x) lawyers can structure, negotiate, and document your technology transactions start to finish. Our experience spans diverse industries, including software and cloud services, AI, fintech, health care, engineering, data analytics, biotech, energy, and telecommunications, among others. Our team consistently provides reliable, flexible, and scalable advice on transactions affecting both day-to-day operations and long-term, strategic implementations.
The ability to store and transfer vast amounts of data, employee portability, and the proliferation of bad actors have made trade secrets even more critical IP assets to protect than before. wiggin(x) works with companies to create trade secret policies, practices, and agreements to protect your rights and your core IP. In addition, when an employee is leaving an old job or starting a new one, we work with companies and entrepreneurs to navigate any potential trade secret issues. Finally, when disputes involving trade secret claims arise, we assist companies and employees in assessing and navigating them.
wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to develop and maintain the right portfolio of marks for your products and services and aid in your marketing, distribution, licensing, and enforcement strategies—both domestically and worldwide. We also counsel clients on a wide range of copyright services, including fair use, works made for hire, and the protection and licensing of all types of copyrighted works. Our lawyers also work with our litigation group on trademark and copyright litigation matters, including matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
How do you protect yourself when considering accepting investment from abroad, or investing in a U.S. business? wiggin(x) works with U.S. and international clients to provide practical, effective, and business-sensitive guidance on foreign investment compliance, including performing diligence on proposed foreign investors and U.S. investment targets, determining the export classification of a target’s technology/products (essential under foreign investment rules, even if the target never exports anything), assessing historical export compliance and addressing deficits to minimize successor liability, and preparing mandatory and voluntary submissions to the Committee on Foreign Investment Control (CFIUS).
wiggin(x) antitrust lawyers represent a diverse group of clients, nationwide, including startups, leading technology companies, international pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, hospital systems, franchisors, and others. Each step of the way, we work closely with clients on a variety of antitrust and technology disputes to offer practical and efficient solutions to support their legal and business needs.
wiggin(x) helps simplify the complex. Whether your company is merging, buying or selling stock or assets, transferring or acquiring product lines, entering a joint venture, or making an equity investment, we walk you through the details, making the complicated feel manageable.
Preparing for due diligence begins long before a deal commences. Companies cannot afford to underestimate the rigor and scrutiny of due diligence from investors, lenders, strategic partners, and underwriters. wiggin(x) works with you to ensure your company is appropriately structured, scalable, and positioned for growth, and we help you organize your internal recordkeeping to ensure that you put your best foot forward.
Corporate governance isn’t just for big public companies. A clear governance structure sets up your business to grow sustainably and to attract investors. wiggin(x) lawyers help you put the right architecture in place to guide your company now and into the future.
A true licensing practice requires a multidisciplinary blend of skill sets that spans technology, business, and law: wiggin(x) is fluent in each. wiggin(x) lawyers assist startups with critical licensing and collaboration endeavors, whether their technology is homegrown or licensed from a university or other partner. We have extensive experience with in-licensing and out-licensing technologies and products of all types, including related patents, copyrights, data, know-how, and software. Our licensing team partners with startups, founders, and their collaborators by advising on strategy, helping structure deals and drafting and negotiating their technology transactions. Our team also assists early-stage investors to analyze and understand the benefits and risks of collaborations, strategic alliances, and mission-critical technology and IP licenses, all core strategic assets of startups.
wiggin(x) represents clients on the buy- and sell-side, advising on complexities that may arise, including transaction/tax structuring, intellectual property, antitrust regulations, foreign investment rules, employee transition, and securities laws, among others. Our transactions range from acquihires to significant upside exits, for newly launched startups to mature companies, and everyone in between.
The wiggin(x) team counsels private equity funds, portfolio companies, and company-targets in buy-side, sell-side, and strategic alliance transactions, working across industries ranging from bio to tech, manufacturing, and many others. International or domestic, any stage of the investment life cycle, LBO, going private, or carve-out, you can trust our experience to guide you through the process.
In private secondary securities offerings, wiggin(x) lawyers navigate applicable shareholder agreements and sale restrictions. We coordinate with brokers and issuers to ensure a smooth transaction process and review or prepare purchase and sale agreements.
When contemplating a strategic partnership or joint venture, clarity at the outset is vital to its success. Whether you want to work with another enterprise or entrepreneur on a specific project or objective, or if you envision a long-term partnership, wiggin(x) lawyers will talk through the various options with you, helping you discern your next move. We help you structure, negotiate, and implement these relationships, so that you feel confident from the outset.
wiggin(x) tax attorneys help startups determine the most tax-advantageous structure for their operation and understand the tax ramifications of changes in that structure. We also provide tax planning for the eventual sale of the company, as well as joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Whether onshore, offshore, or near-shore, wiggin(x) lawyers can structure, negotiate, and document your technology transactions start to finish. Our experience spans diverse industries, including software and cloud services, AI, fintech, health care, engineering, data analytics, biotech, energy, and telecommunications, among others. Our team consistently provides reliable, flexible, and scalable advice on transactions affecting both day-to-day operations and long-term, strategic implementations.
The ability to store and transfer vast amounts of data, employee portability, and the proliferation of bad actors have made trade secrets even more critical IP assets to protect than before. wiggin(x) works with companies to create trade secret policies, practices, and agreements to protect your rights and your core IP. In addition, when an employee is leaving an old job or starting a new one, we work with companies and entrepreneurs to navigate any potential trade secret issues. Finally, when disputes involving trade secret claims arise, we assist companies and employees in assessing and navigating them.
wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to develop and maintain the right portfolio of marks for your products and services and aid in your marketing, distribution, licensing, and enforcement strategies—both domestically and worldwide. We also counsel clients on a wide range of copyright services, including fair use, works made for hire, and the protection and licensing of all types of copyrighted works. Our lawyers also work with our litigation group on trademark and copyright litigation matters, including matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
How do you protect yourself when considering accepting investment from abroad, or investing in a U.S. business? wiggin(x) works with U.S. and international clients to provide practical, effective, and business-sensitive guidance on foreign investment compliance, including performing diligence on proposed foreign investors and U.S. investment targets, determining the export classification of a target’s technology/products (essential under foreign investment rules, even if the target never exports anything), assessing historical export compliance and addressing deficits to minimize successor liability, and preparing mandatory and voluntary submissions to the Committee on Foreign Investment Control (CFIUS).
wiggin(x) antitrust lawyers represent a diverse group of clients, nationwide, including startups, leading technology companies, international pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, hospital systems, franchisors, and others. Each step of the way, we work closely with clients on a variety of antitrust and technology disputes to offer practical and efficient solutions to support their legal and business needs.
wiggin(x) helps simplify the complex. Whether your company is merging, buying or selling stock or assets, transferring or acquiring product lines, entering a joint venture, or making an equity investment, we walk you through the details, making the complicated feel manageable.
Preparing for due diligence begins long before a deal commences. Companies cannot afford to underestimate the rigor and scrutiny of due diligence from investors, lenders, strategic partners, and underwriters. wiggin(x) works with you to ensure your company is appropriately structured, scalable, and positioned for growth, and we help you organize your internal recordkeeping to ensure that you put your best foot forward.
Corporate governance isn’t just for big public companies. A clear governance structure sets up your business to grow sustainably and to attract investors. wiggin(x) lawyers help you put the right architecture in place to guide your company now and into the future.
A true licensing practice requires a multidisciplinary blend of skill sets that spans technology, business, and law: wiggin(x) is fluent in each. wiggin(x) lawyers assist startups with critical licensing and collaboration endeavors, whether their technology is homegrown or licensed from a university or other partner. We have extensive experience with in-licensing and out-licensing technologies and products of all types, including related patents, copyrights, data, know-how, and software. Our licensing team partners with startups, founders, and their collaborators by advising on strategy, helping structure deals and drafting and negotiating their technology transactions. Our team also assists early-stage investors to analyze and understand the benefits and risks of collaborations, strategic alliances, and mission-critical technology and IP licenses, all core strategic assets of startups.
wiggin(x) represents clients on the buy- and sell-side, advising on complexities that may arise, including transaction/tax structuring, intellectual property, antitrust regulations, foreign investment rules, employee transition, and securities laws, among others. Our transactions range from acquihires to significant upside exits, for newly launched startups to mature companies, and everyone in between.
The wiggin(x) team counsels private equity funds, portfolio companies, and company-targets in buy-side, sell-side, and strategic alliance transactions, working across industries ranging from bio to tech, manufacturing, and many others. International or domestic, any stage of the investment life cycle, LBO, going private, or carve-out, you can trust our experience to guide you through the process.
In private secondary securities offerings, wiggin(x) lawyers navigate applicable shareholder agreements and sale restrictions. We coordinate with brokers and issuers to ensure a smooth transaction process and review or prepare purchase and sale agreements.
When contemplating a strategic partnership or joint venture, clarity at the outset is vital to its success. Whether you want to work with another enterprise or entrepreneur on a specific project or objective, or if you envision a long-term partnership, wiggin(x) lawyers will talk through the various options with you, helping you discern your next move. We help you structure, negotiate, and implement these relationships, so that you feel confident from the outset.
wiggin(x) tax attorneys help startups determine the most tax-advantageous structure for their operation and understand the tax ramifications of changes in that structure. We also provide tax planning for the eventual sale of the company, as well as joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Whether onshore, offshore, or near-shore, wiggin(x) lawyers can structure, negotiate, and document your technology transactions start to finish. Our experience spans diverse industries, including software and cloud services, AI, fintech, health care, engineering, data analytics, biotech, energy, and telecommunications, among others. Our team consistently provides reliable, flexible, and scalable advice on transactions affecting both day-to-day operations and long-term, strategic implementations.
The ability to store and transfer vast amounts of data, employee portability, and the proliferation of bad actors have made trade secrets even more critical IP assets to protect than before. wiggin(x) works with companies to create trade secret policies, practices, and agreements to protect your rights and your core IP. In addition, when an employee is leaving an old job or starting a new one, we work with companies and entrepreneurs to navigate any potential trade secret issues. Finally, when disputes involving trade secret claims arise, we assist companies and employees in assessing and navigating them.
wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to develop and maintain the right portfolio of marks for your products and services and aid in your marketing, distribution, licensing, and enforcement strategies—both domestically and worldwide. We also counsel clients on a wide range of copyright services, including fair use, works made for hire, and the protection and licensing of all types of copyrighted works. Our lawyers also work with our litigation group on trademark and copyright litigation matters, including matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
How do you protect yourself when considering accepting investment from abroad, or investing in a U.S. business? wiggin(x) works with U.S. and international clients to provide practical, effective, and business-sensitive guidance on foreign investment compliance, including performing diligence on proposed foreign investors and U.S. investment targets, determining the export classification of a target’s technology/products (essential under foreign investment rules, even if the target never exports anything), assessing historical export compliance and addressing deficits to minimize successor liability, and preparing mandatory and voluntary submissions to the Committee on Foreign Investment Control (CFIUS).
wiggin(x) antitrust lawyers represent a diverse group of clients, nationwide, including startups, leading technology companies, international pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, hospital systems, franchisors, and others. Each step of the way, we work closely with clients on a variety of antitrust and technology disputes to offer practical and efficient solutions to support their legal and business needs.
wiggin(x) cannabis lawyers are uniquely suited to address the evolving needs of emerging players within the rapidly growing legalized cannabis industry. We advise cannabis companies and their investors, as well as technology and services companies who interact with the cannabis industry, in their early stages, and in follow on venture capital rounds and licensing, as well as providing established companies with advice regarding ongoing regulatory compliance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and other matters.
For many companies, success comes with increased class action litigation exposure. wiggin(x) provides creative and cost-effective approaches to these bet-the-business cases. Having acted as lead counsel for a diverse client base, including the Big Four and Big Pharma, in multiple jurisdictions and in a variety of claims, we understand all aspects of these complex cases, and will stand by your side, helping to navigate through these complicated matters.
wiggin(x) helps simplify the complex. Whether your company is merging, buying or selling stock or assets, transferring or acquiring product lines, entering a joint venture, or making an equity investment, we walk you through the details, making the complicated feel manageable.
Cybersecurity is essential for any business that values data and relies on networks and digital systems to conduct operations. wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to conduct risk assessment, develop and implement information security policies, and design employee training programs. We track evolving domestic and international laws and regulations to help you manage risk and respond effectively to data breaches.
The best way to win litigation is to avoid it, but that’s not always possible. Young companies need to be prepared for all outcomes. wiggin(x) litigators have the experience and skill to handle virtually any type of dispute that a startup or emerging company may encounter, including but not limited to consumer class action claims, disputes with vendors, lawsuits against or by competitors, intellectual property and patent claims, or even a claim from one of its own investors or members. We understand that litigation often has “bet-the-company” implications for emerging companies and will help you navigate the best path and strategy for protecting your business.
In business, your people are your greatest assets. wiggin(x) works with you to prepare offer letters and employment agreements, and draft and review employee handbooks and policies to protect those assets. As you continue to evolve, we provide counsel on personnel practices and employment decisions such as terminations, the enforcement of restrictive covenants, and compensation disputes.
EHS compliance is vital to a successful startup, as violations can lead to agency enforcement, penalty assessment, and reputational damage. For emerging companies, wiggin(x) provides practical advice regarding required approvals and permits to ensure that operations are not delayed. We also defend against EHS litigation and enforcement actions, negotiate EHS risks in business transactions, and assist in rulemaking proceedings and regulatory challenges. For investors, our EHS lawyers assist with diligence regarding startup EHS risks, compliance, and liabilities.
As outsourced general counsel or as additional support for your internal legal team, wiggin(x) lawyers provide counsel on general corporate governance, shareholder/member matters, cap table management, equity plan creation, and oversight. We review and negotiate commercial contracts, including financing agreements and commercial real estate leases. We also advise on employment and consulting documentation, intellectual property matters, and restrictive covenant agreements, among a variety of other services delivered when and how you need them.
Corporate governance isn’t just for big public companies. A clear governance structure sets up your business to grow sustainably and to attract investors. wiggin(x) lawyers help you put the right architecture in place to guide your company now and into the future.
We live in a global marketplace, and your talent opportunities may expand beyond our borders. For emerging companies that want to utilize global talent, wiggin(x) helps navigate the system that will allow you to provide U.S. work authorization sponsorship while complying with the maze of regulatory requirements. We create a customized immigration and compliance strategy to address both short-term and long-term goals, helping you to hire and retain the best talent for your U.S. entity, and to send U.S. employees abroad. From formation to maturity, we provide counsel for immigration and incidental tax, employment, corporate structure, and international compliance matters.
You keep dreaming up new ideas, and we’ll help ensure they are protected. As your trusted partner, wiggin(x) works through all the complex foundational IP questions with you, determining what IP your business has, how best to protect it, and what to do when IP is infringed, stolen, or misappropriated. We’ll help you acquire, enforce, and defend patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and determine how to best protect your trade secrets.
When IP disputes arise, whether on behalf of the IP owner or the accused infringer, wiggin(x) can help to resolve them. We provide strategic counseling and represent clients in negotiations, mediations, arbitrations, at the patent and trademark office, and in court proceedings. Our practical, business-oriented viewpoint keeps our focus on your business goals and the most expeditious way to meet them.
wiggin(x) provides effective, risk-based, and business-sensitive guidance on foreign investment (CFIUS), financial sanctions (OFAC), export (ITAR, EAR), anti-corruption (FCPA), and other global trade matters. Our team of former government and in-house lawyers explain the regulatory requirements, conduct M&A and investment due diligence, prepare CFIUS filings, defend against government enforcement actions, pursue licenses and permits, and create practical, right-sized compliance programs.
A true licensing practice requires a multidisciplinary blend of skill sets that spans technology, business, and law: wiggin(x) is fluent in each. wiggin(x) lawyers assist startups with critical licensing and collaboration endeavors, whether their technology is homegrown or licensed from a university or other partner. We have extensive experience with in-licensing and out-licensing technologies and products of all types, including related patents, copyrights, data, know-how, and software. Our licensing team partners with startups, founders, and their collaborators by advising on strategy, helping structure deals and drafting and negotiating their technology transactions. Our team also assists early-stage investors to analyze and understand the benefits and risks of collaborations, strategic alliances, and mission-critical technology and IP licenses, all core strategic assets of startups.
wiggin(x) represents clients on the buy- and sell-side, advising on complexities that may arise, including transaction/tax structuring, intellectual property, antitrust regulations, foreign investment rules, employee transition, and securities laws, among others. Our transactions range from acquihires to significant upside exits, for newly launched startups to mature companies, and everyone in between.
wiggin(x) helps founders and early-stage companies protect their innovations with patents and develop patent portfolios into competitive tools that align with the business and company vision. We prepare and prosecute U.S. and foreign patent applications and stand ready to help you enforce your patent rights against infringers. If the validity of your patents is challenged at the Patent Office or in court, we can skillfully handle these proceedings to preserve and confirm the validity of your patents. We also work with you to identify and negotiate strategic licenses to generate revenue from your patented innovations and discoveries.
In private secondary securities offerings, wiggin(x) lawyers navigate applicable shareholder agreements and sale restrictions. We coordinate with brokers and issuers to ensure a smooth transaction process and review or prepare purchase and sale agreements.
wiggin(x) lawyers have earned a national reputation for helping individuals and businesses understand and solve complex product liability problems. We work across industries, including pharmaceuticals and medical devices, aviation and defense, automotive, and industrial and consumer products. Depending on our clients’ business needs and objectives, we help with M&A and pre-litigation risk assessment and avoidance counseling, and with alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. When litigation is necessary, we tenaciously defend our clients and their products.
wiggin(x) lawyers counsel businesses on all aspects of commercial real estate, including buying, selling, leasing, developing, and operating retail, office, manufacturing, distribution, and research space for both large and small portfolios. Our services include structuring and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, leases, and architectural, engineering, and construction contracts as well as advising clients on environmental and energy matters.
For a variety of regulatory frameworks, wiggin(x) can help you understand your legal responsibilities and manage your risk. Our extensive experience and established rapport with regulators allows us to interface on your behalf and help achieve desired outcomes. Our regulatory compliance teams take a pragmatic approach, with the aim to minimize the impact of regulations on your day-to-day operations and maximize your business opportunities.
Every restructuring and distressed transaction is unique. wiggin(x) lawyers provide advice to companies, investors, and acquirers in connection with distressed emerging companies. Let us guide you through restructurings, recapitalizations, bridge financings, sales, acquisitions, or any other distressed transactions.
wiggin(x) provides innovative and market-savvy counsel to NYSE- and NASDAQ-listed companies, emerging companies, underwriters, venture capital firms, and hedge funds. We have the knowledge and experience capital to put to work for you, whether you need help implementing and documenting a venture financing, strategy around optimizing your capital structure, or counsel about a potential public market exit (M&A or IPO).
Securities litigation and investigations demand a professional and specialized legal strategy. wiggin(x) lawyers have the experience to provide excellent representation to you in these high-stakes matters, including government investigations by the SEC, CFTC, FINRA, and DOJ; disputes with shareholders; and other civil and criminal litigation. We’ll navigate the complexities while you keep your focus on growing your business.
When contemplating a strategic partnership or joint venture, clarity at the outset is vital to its success. Whether you want to work with another enterprise or entrepreneur on a specific project or objective, or if you envision a long-term partnership, wiggin(x) lawyers will talk through the various options with you, helping you discern your next move. We help you structure, negotiate, and implement these relationships, so that you feel confident from the outset.
wiggin(x) tax attorneys help startups determine the most tax-advantageous structure for their operation and understand the tax ramifications of changes in that structure. We also provide tax planning for the eventual sale of the company, as well as joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Whether onshore, offshore, or near-shore, wiggin(x) lawyers can structure, negotiate, and document your technology transactions start to finish. Our experience spans diverse industries, including software and cloud services, AI, fintech, health care, engineering, data analytics, biotech, energy, and telecommunications, among others. Our team consistently provides reliable, flexible, and scalable advice on transactions affecting both day-to-day operations and long-term, strategic implementations.
The ability to store and transfer vast amounts of data, employee portability, and the proliferation of bad actors have made trade secrets even more critical IP assets to protect than before. wiggin(x) works with companies to create trade secret policies, practices, and agreements to protect your rights and your core IP. In addition, when an employee is leaving an old job or starting a new one, we work with companies and entrepreneurs to navigate any potential trade secret issues. Finally, when disputes involving trade secret claims arise, we assist companies and employees in assessing and navigating them.
wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to develop and maintain the right portfolio of marks for your products and services and aid in your marketing, distribution, licensing, and enforcement strategies—both domestically and worldwide. We also counsel clients on a wide range of copyright services, including fair use, works made for hire, and the protection and licensing of all types of copyrighted works. Our lawyers also work with our litigation group on trademark and copyright litigation matters, including matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Your wiggin(x) defense attorneys will bring their years of experience in the public and private sectors to your side during this stressful time. Our team is composed of former federal prosecutors, in-house global compliance leaders, and private counsel to corporate and individual clients who advise our clients in response to investigations by federal and state criminal, civil, and regulatory authorities; conduct internal investigations; provide corporate governance advice; and advise clients on compliance-related matters. Your well-being is our top priority as we work aggressively to prevent prosecutions, negotiate successful resolutions, and defend clients at trial and on appeal.
How do you protect yourself when considering accepting investment from abroad, or investing in a U.S. business? wiggin(x) works with U.S. and international clients to provide practical, effective, and business-sensitive guidance on foreign investment compliance, including performing diligence on proposed foreign investors and U.S. investment targets, determining the export classification of a target’s technology/products (essential under foreign investment rules, even if the target never exports anything), assessing historical export compliance and addressing deficits to minimize successor liability, and preparing mandatory and voluntary submissions to the Committee on Foreign Investment Control (CFIUS).
wiggin(x) antitrust lawyers represent a diverse group of clients, nationwide, including startups, leading technology companies, international pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, hospital systems, franchisors, and others. Each step of the way, we work closely with clients on a variety of antitrust and technology disputes to offer practical and efficient solutions to support their legal and business needs.
wiggin(x) cannabis lawyers are uniquely suited to address the evolving needs of emerging players within the rapidly growing legalized cannabis industry. We advise cannabis companies and their investors, as well as technology and services companies who interact with the cannabis industry, in their early stages, and in follow on venture capital rounds and licensing, as well as providing established companies with advice regarding ongoing regulatory compliance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and other matters.
For many companies, success comes with increased class action litigation exposure. wiggin(x) provides creative and cost-effective approaches to these bet-the-business cases. Having acted as lead counsel for a diverse client base, including the Big Four and Big Pharma, in multiple jurisdictions and in a variety of claims, we understand all aspects of these complex cases, and will stand by your side, helping to navigate through these complicated matters.
wiggin(x) helps simplify the complex. Whether your company is merging, buying or selling stock or assets, transferring or acquiring product lines, entering a joint venture, or making an equity investment, we walk you through the details, making the complicated feel manageable.
Cybersecurity is essential for any business that values data and relies on networks and digital systems to conduct operations. wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to conduct risk assessment, develop and implement information security policies, and design employee training programs. We track evolving domestic and international laws and regulations to help you manage risk and respond effectively to data breaches.
The best way to win litigation is to avoid it, but that’s not always possible. Young companies need to be prepared for all outcomes. wiggin(x) litigators have the experience and skill to handle virtually any type of dispute that a startup or emerging company may encounter, including but not limited to consumer class action claims, disputes with vendors, lawsuits against or by competitors, intellectual property and patent claims, or even a claim from one of its own investors or members. We understand that litigation often has “bet-the-company” implications for emerging companies and will help you navigate the best path and strategy for protecting your business.
In business, your people are your greatest assets. wiggin(x) works with you to prepare offer letters and employment agreements, and draft and review employee handbooks and policies to protect those assets. As you continue to evolve, we provide counsel on personnel practices and employment decisions such as terminations, the enforcement of restrictive covenants, and compensation disputes.
EHS compliance is vital to a successful startup, as violations can lead to agency enforcement, penalty assessment, and reputational damage. For emerging companies, wiggin(x) provides practical advice regarding required approvals and permits to ensure that operations are not delayed. We also defend against EHS litigation and enforcement actions, negotiate EHS risks in business transactions, and assist in rulemaking proceedings and regulatory challenges. For investors, our EHS lawyers assist with diligence regarding startup EHS risks, compliance, and liabilities.
As outsourced general counsel or as additional support for your internal legal team, wiggin(x) lawyers provide counsel on general corporate governance, shareholder/member matters, cap table management, equity plan creation, and oversight. We review and negotiate commercial contracts, including financing agreements and commercial real estate leases. We also advise on employment and consulting documentation, intellectual property matters, and restrictive covenant agreements, among a variety of other services delivered when and how you need them.
Corporate governance isn’t just for big public companies. A clear governance structure sets up your business to grow sustainably and to attract investors. wiggin(x) lawyers help you put the right architecture in place to guide your company now and into the future.
We live in a global marketplace, and your talent opportunities may expand beyond our borders. For emerging companies that want to utilize global talent, wiggin(x) helps navigate the system that will allow you to provide U.S. work authorization sponsorship while complying with the maze of regulatory requirements. We create a customized immigration and compliance strategy to address both short-term and long-term goals, helping you to hire and retain the best talent for your U.S. entity, and to send U.S. employees abroad. From formation to maturity, we provide counsel for immigration and incidental tax, employment, corporate structure, and international compliance matters.
You keep dreaming up new ideas, and we’ll help ensure they are protected. As your trusted partner, wiggin(x) works through all the complex foundational IP questions with you, determining what IP your business has, how best to protect it, and what to do when IP is infringed, stolen, or misappropriated. We’ll help you acquire, enforce, and defend patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and determine how to best protect your trade secrets.
When IP disputes arise, whether on behalf of the IP owner or the accused infringer, wiggin(x) can help to resolve them. We provide strategic counseling and represent clients in negotiations, mediations, arbitrations, at the patent and trademark office, and in court proceedings. Our practical, business-oriented viewpoint keeps our focus on your business goals and the most expeditious way to meet them.
wiggin(x) provides effective, risk-based, and business-sensitive guidance on foreign investment (CFIUS), financial sanctions (OFAC), export (ITAR, EAR), anti-corruption (FCPA), and other global trade matters. Our team of former government and in-house lawyers explain the regulatory requirements, conduct M&A and investment due diligence, prepare CFIUS filings, defend against government enforcement actions, pursue licenses and permits, and create practical, right-sized compliance programs.
A true licensing practice requires a multidisciplinary blend of skill sets that spans technology, business, and law: wiggin(x) is fluent in each. wiggin(x) lawyers assist startups with critical licensing and collaboration endeavors, whether their technology is homegrown or licensed from a university or other partner. We have extensive experience with in-licensing and out-licensing technologies and products of all types, including related patents, copyrights, data, know-how, and software. Our licensing team partners with startups, founders, and their collaborators by advising on strategy, helping structure deals and drafting and negotiating their technology transactions. Our team also assists early-stage investors to analyze and understand the benefits and risks of collaborations, strategic alliances, and mission-critical technology and IP licenses, all core strategic assets of startups.
wiggin(x) represents clients on the buy- and sell-side, advising on complexities that may arise, including transaction/tax structuring, intellectual property, antitrust regulations, foreign investment rules, employee transition, and securities laws, among others. Our transactions range from acquihires to significant upside exits, for newly launched startups to mature companies, and everyone in between.
wiggin(x) helps founders and early-stage companies protect their innovations with patents and develop patent portfolios into competitive tools that align with the business and company vision. We prepare and prosecute U.S. and foreign patent applications and stand ready to help you enforce your patent rights against infringers. If the validity of your patents is challenged at the Patent Office or in court, we can skillfully handle these proceedings to preserve and confirm the validity of your patents. We also work with you to identify and negotiate strategic licenses to generate revenue from your patented innovations and discoveries.
In private secondary securities offerings, wiggin(x) lawyers navigate applicable shareholder agreements and sale restrictions. We coordinate with brokers and issuers to ensure a smooth transaction process and review or prepare purchase and sale agreements.
wiggin(x) lawyers have earned a national reputation for helping individuals and businesses understand and solve complex product liability problems. We work across industries, including pharmaceuticals and medical devices, aviation and defense, automotive, and industrial and consumer products. Depending on our clients’ business needs and objectives, we help with M&A and pre-litigation risk assessment and avoidance counseling, and with alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. When litigation is necessary, we tenaciously defend our clients and their products.
wiggin(x) lawyers counsel businesses on all aspects of commercial real estate, including buying, selling, leasing, developing, and operating retail, office, manufacturing, distribution, and research space for both large and small portfolios. Our services include structuring and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, leases, and architectural, engineering, and construction contracts as well as advising clients on environmental and energy matters.
For a variety of regulatory frameworks, wiggin(x) can help you understand your legal responsibilities and manage your risk. Our extensive experience and established rapport with regulators allows us to interface on your behalf and help achieve desired outcomes. Our regulatory compliance teams take a pragmatic approach, with the aim to minimize the impact of regulations on your day-to-day operations and maximize your business opportunities.
Every restructuring and distressed transaction is unique. wiggin(x) lawyers provide advice to companies, investors, and acquirers in connection with distressed emerging companies. Let us guide you through restructurings, recapitalizations, bridge financings, sales, acquisitions, or any other distressed transactions.
wiggin(x) provides innovative and market-savvy counsel to NYSE- and NASDAQ-listed companies, emerging companies, underwriters, venture capital firms, and hedge funds. We have the knowledge and experience capital to put to work for you, whether you need help implementing and documenting a venture financing, strategy around optimizing your capital structure, or counsel about a potential public market exit (M&A or IPO).
Securities litigation and investigations demand a professional and specialized legal strategy. wiggin(x) lawyers have the experience to provide excellent representation to you in these high-stakes matters, including government investigations by the SEC, CFTC, FINRA, and DOJ; disputes with shareholders; and other civil and criminal litigation. We’ll navigate the complexities while you keep your focus on growing your business.
When contemplating a strategic partnership or joint venture, clarity at the outset is vital to its success. Whether you want to work with another enterprise or entrepreneur on a specific project or objective, or if you envision a long-term partnership, wiggin(x) lawyers will talk through the various options with you, helping you discern your next move. We help you structure, negotiate, and implement these relationships, so that you feel confident from the outset.
wiggin(x) tax attorneys help startups determine the most tax-advantageous structure for their operation and understand the tax ramifications of changes in that structure. We also provide tax planning for the eventual sale of the company, as well as joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Whether onshore, offshore, or near-shore, wiggin(x) lawyers can structure, negotiate, and document your technology transactions start to finish. Our experience spans diverse industries, including software and cloud services, AI, fintech, health care, engineering, data analytics, biotech, energy, and telecommunications, among others. Our team consistently provides reliable, flexible, and scalable advice on transactions affecting both day-to-day operations and long-term, strategic implementations.
The ability to store and transfer vast amounts of data, employee portability, and the proliferation of bad actors have made trade secrets even more critical IP assets to protect than before. wiggin(x) works with companies to create trade secret policies, practices, and agreements to protect your rights and your core IP. In addition, when an employee is leaving an old job or starting a new one, we work with companies and entrepreneurs to navigate any potential trade secret issues. Finally, when disputes involving trade secret claims arise, we assist companies and employees in assessing and navigating them.
wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to develop and maintain the right portfolio of marks for your products and services and aid in your marketing, distribution, licensing, and enforcement strategies—both domestically and worldwide. We also counsel clients on a wide range of copyright services, including fair use, works made for hire, and the protection and licensing of all types of copyrighted works. Our lawyers also work with our litigation group on trademark and copyright litigation matters, including matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
Your wiggin(x) defense attorneys will bring their years of experience in the public and private sectors to your side during this stressful time. Our team is composed of former federal prosecutors, in-house global compliance leaders, and private counsel to corporate and individual clients who advise our clients in response to investigations by federal and state criminal, civil, and regulatory authorities; conduct internal investigations; provide corporate governance advice; and advise clients on compliance-related matters. Your well-being is our top priority as we work aggressively to prevent prosecutions, negotiate successful resolutions, and defend clients at trial and on appeal.
wiggin(x) works with companies and founders to negotiate and structure deals with those who plan to invest in the company. When working with investors, we review targets, structure deals, and dig into due diligence. And, in either case, at every stage of the financing process, we provide sound and creative counsel.
How do you protect yourself when considering accepting investment from abroad, or investing in a U.S. business? wiggin(x) works with U.S. and international clients to provide practical, effective, and business-sensitive guidance on foreign investment compliance, including performing diligence on proposed foreign investors and U.S. investment targets, determining the export classification of a target’s technology/products (essential under foreign investment rules, even if the target never exports anything), assessing historical export compliance and addressing deficits to minimize successor liability, and preparing mandatory and voluntary submissions to the Committee on Foreign Investment Control (CFIUS).
wiggin(x) helps simplify the complex. Whether your company is merging, buying or selling stock or assets, transferring or acquiring product lines, entering a joint venture, or making an equity investment, we walk you through the details, making the complicated feel manageable.
Cybersecurity is essential for any business that values data and relies on networks and digital systems to conduct operations. wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to conduct risk assessment, develop and implement information security policies, and design employee training programs. We track evolving domestic and international laws and regulations to help you manage risk and respond effectively to data breaches.
In business, your people are your greatest assets. wiggin(x) works with you to prepare offer letters and employment agreements, and draft and review employee handbooks and policies to protect those assets. As you continue to evolve, we provide counsel on personnel practices and employment decisions such as terminations, the enforcement of restrictive covenants, and compensation disputes.
How you form your company today will have a major impact on your future. wiggin(x) will help you select and form the right entity for your business, be it an LLC, S corp, or C corp. We will walk you through the alternatives, focusing on how each form may affect taxes, costs, personnel and strategic partner decisions, and attractiveness to future investors and lenders.
As outsourced general counsel or as additional support for your internal legal team, wiggin(x) lawyers provide counsel on general corporate governance, shareholder/member matters, cap table management, equity plan creation, and oversight. We review and negotiate commercial contracts, including financing agreements and commercial real estate leases. We also advise on employment and consulting documentation, intellectual property matters, and restrictive covenant agreements, among a variety of other services delivered when and how you need them.
Corporate governance isn’t just for big public companies. A clear governance structure sets up your business to grow sustainably and to attract investors. wiggin(x) lawyers help you put the right architecture in place to guide your company now and into the future.
We live in a global marketplace, and your talent opportunities may expand beyond our borders. For emerging companies that want to utilize global talent, wiggin(x) helps navigate the system that will allow you to provide U.S. work authorization sponsorship while complying with the maze of regulatory requirements. We create a customized immigration and compliance strategy to address both short-term and long-term goals, helping you to hire and retain the best talent for your U.S. entity, and to send U.S. employees abroad. From formation to maturity, we provide counsel for immigration and incidental tax, employment, corporate structure, and international compliance matters.
You keep dreaming up new ideas, and we’ll help ensure they are protected. As your trusted partner, wiggin(x) works through all the complex foundational IP questions with you, determining what IP your business has, how best to protect it, and what to do when IP is infringed, stolen, or misappropriated. We’ll help you acquire, enforce, and defend patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and determine how to best protect your trade secrets.
A true licensing practice requires a multidisciplinary blend of skill sets that spans technology, business, and law: wiggin(x) is fluent in each. wiggin(x) lawyers assist startups with critical licensing and collaboration endeavors, whether their technology is homegrown or licensed from a university or other partner. We have extensive experience with in-licensing and out-licensing technologies and products of all types, including related patents, copyrights, data, know-how, and software. Our licensing team partners with startups, founders, and their collaborators by advising on strategy, helping structure deals and drafting and negotiating their technology transactions. Our team also assists early-stage investors to analyze and understand the benefits and risks of collaborations, strategic alliances, and mission-critical technology and IP licenses, all core strategic assets of startups.
wiggin(x) helps founders and early-stage companies protect their innovations with patents and develop patent portfolios into competitive tools that align with the business and company vision. We prepare and prosecute U.S. and foreign patent applications and stand ready to help you enforce your patent rights against infringers. If the validity of your patents is challenged at the Patent Office or in court, we can skillfully handle these proceedings to preserve and confirm the validity of your patents. We also work with you to identify and negotiate strategic licenses to generate revenue from your patented innovations and discoveries.
When contemplating a strategic partnership or joint venture, clarity at the outset is vital to its success. Whether you want to work with another enterprise or entrepreneur on a specific project or objective, or if you envision a long-term partnership, wiggin(x) lawyers will talk through the various options with you, helping you discern your next move. We help you structure, negotiate, and implement these relationships, so that you feel confident from the outset.
wiggin(x) tax attorneys help startups determine the most tax-advantageous structure for their operation and understand the tax ramifications of changes in that structure. We also provide tax planning for the eventual sale of the company, as well as joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Whether onshore, offshore, or near-shore, wiggin(x) lawyers can structure, negotiate, and document your technology transactions start to finish. Our experience spans diverse industries, including software and cloud services, AI, fintech, health care, engineering, data analytics, biotech, energy, and telecommunications, among others. Our team consistently provides reliable, flexible, and scalable advice on transactions affecting both day-to-day operations and long-term, strategic implementations.
The ability to store and transfer vast amounts of data, employee portability, and the proliferation of bad actors have made trade secrets even more critical IP assets to protect than before. wiggin(x) works with companies to create trade secret policies, practices, and agreements to protect your rights and your core IP. In addition, when an employee is leaving an old job or starting a new one, we work with companies and entrepreneurs to navigate any potential trade secret issues. Finally, when disputes involving trade secret claims arise, we assist companies and employees in assessing and navigating them.
wiggin(x) lawyers work with you to develop and maintain the right portfolio of marks for your products and services and aid in your marketing, distribution, licensing, and enforcement strategies—both domestically and worldwide. We also counsel clients on a wide range of copyright services, including fair use, works made for hire, and the protection and licensing of all types of copyrighted works. Our lawyers also work with our litigation group on trademark and copyright litigation matters, including matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
When raising funds through debt, options abound. wiggin(x) will explore these choices with you. Whether it’s bonds, bank loans, venture debt, or nontraditional lenders, we will help structure and negotiate debt financing to allow your company to achieve its goals.
Preparing for due diligence begins long before a deal commences. Companies cannot afford to underestimate the rigor and scrutiny of due diligence from investors, lenders, strategic partners, and underwriters. wiggin(x) works with you to ensure your company is appropriately structured, scalable, and positioned for growth, and we help you organize your internal recordkeeping to ensure that you put your best foot forward.
When your business is entering a new market, implementing a structural change, or pursuing a large growth opportunity, we’ll be there to structure, negotiate, and close investments to raise the capital needed to take you to the next level of success.
The wiggin(x) team counsels private equity funds, portfolio companies, and company-targets in buy-side, sell-side, and strategic alliance transactions, working across industries ranging from bio to tech, manufacturing, and many others. International or domestic, any stage of the investment life cycle, LBO, going private, or carve-out, you can trust our experience to guide you through the process.
wiggin(x) venture capital lawyers work with emerging company clients to ensure that they are appropriately structured, scalable, and positioned for growth and a liquidity event. Our attorneys help clients withstand the rigorous due diligence scrutiny of investors, lenders, strategic partners, and underwriters. We negotiate and structure deals to help emerging companies continue to grow and thrive.
wiggin(x) lawyers work with venture capital firms, family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and other investors to dial in success. We help review their targets, structure their investments, and accomplish their business objectives.
The best way to win litigation is to avoid it, but that’s not always possible. Young companies need to be prepared for all outcomes. wiggin(x) litigators have the experience and skill to handle virtually any type of dispute that a startup or emerging company may encounter, including but not limited to consumer class action claims, disputes with vendors, lawsuits against or by competitors, intellectual property and patent claims, or even a claim from one of its own investors or members. We understand that litigation often has “bet-the-company” implications for emerging companies and will help you navigate the best path and strategy for protecting your business.
EHS compliance is vital to a successful startup, as violations can lead to agency enforcement, penalty assessment, and reputational damage. For emerging companies, wiggin(x) provides practical advice regarding required approvals and permits to ensure that operations are not delayed. We also defend against EHS litigation and enforcement actions, negotiate EHS risks in business transactions, and assist in rulemaking proceedings and regulatory challenges. For investors, our EHS lawyers assist with diligence regarding startup EHS risks, compliance, and liabilities.
When IP disputes arise, whether on behalf of the IP owner or the accused infringer, wiggin(x) can help to resolve them. We provide strategic counseling and represent clients in negotiations, mediations, arbitrations, at the patent and trademark office, and in court proceedings. Our practical, business-oriented viewpoint keeps our focus on your business goals and the most expeditious way to meet them.
wiggin(x) provides effective, risk-based, and business-sensitive guidance on foreign investment (CFIUS), financial sanctions (OFAC), export (ITAR, EAR), anti-corruption (FCPA), and other global trade matters. Our team of former government and in-house lawyers explain the regulatory requirements, conduct M&A and investment due diligence, prepare CFIUS filings, defend against government enforcement actions, pursue licenses and permits, and create practical, right-sized compliance programs.
wiggin(x) represents clients on the buy- and sell-side, advising on complexities that may arise, including transaction/tax structuring, intellectual property, antitrust regulations, foreign investment rules, employee transition, and securities laws, among others. Our transactions range from acquihires to significant upside exits, for newly launched startups to mature companies, and everyone in between.
wiggin(x) lawyers counsel businesses on all aspects of commercial real estate, including buying, selling, leasing, developing, and operating retail, office, manufacturing, distribution, and research space for both large and small portfolios. Our services include structuring and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, leases, and architectural, engineering, and construction contracts as well as advising clients on environmental and energy matters.
For a variety of regulatory frameworks, wiggin(x) can help you understand your legal responsibilities and manage your risk. Our extensive experience and established rapport with regulators allows us to interface on your behalf and help achieve desired outcomes. Our regulatory compliance teams take a pragmatic approach, with the aim to minimize the impact of regulations on your day-to-day operations and maximize your business opportunities.
wiggin(x) antitrust lawyers represent a diverse group of clients, nationwide, including startups, leading technology companies, international pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, hospital systems, franchisors, and others. Each step of the way, we work closely with clients on a variety of antitrust and technology disputes to offer practical and efficient solutions to support their legal and business needs.
In private secondary securities offerings, wiggin(x) lawyers navigate applicable shareholder agreements and sale restrictions. We coordinate with brokers and issuers to ensure a smooth transaction process and review or prepare purchase and sale agreements.
wiggin(x) cannabis lawyers are uniquely suited to address the evolving needs of emerging players within the rapidly growing legalized cannabis industry. We advise cannabis companies and their investors, as well as technology and services companies who interact with the cannabis industry, in their early stages, and in follow on venture capital rounds and licensing, as well as providing established companies with advice regarding ongoing regulatory compliance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and other matters.
For many companies, success comes with increased class action litigation exposure. wiggin(x) provides creative and cost-effective approaches to these bet-the-business cases. Having acted as lead counsel for a diverse client base, including the Big Four and Big Pharma, in multiple jurisdictions and in a variety of claims, we understand all aspects of these complex cases, and will stand by your side, helping to navigate through these complicated matters.
wiggin(x) lawyers have earned a national reputation for helping individuals and businesses understand and solve complex product liability problems. We work across industries, including pharmaceuticals and medical devices, aviation and defense, automotive, and industrial and consumer products. Depending on our clients’ business needs and objectives, we help with M&A and pre-litigation risk assessment and avoidance counseling, and with alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. When litigation is necessary, we tenaciously defend our clients and their products.
Every restructuring and distressed transaction is unique. wiggin(x) lawyers provide advice to companies, investors, and acquirers in connection with distressed emerging companies. Let us guide you through restructurings, recapitalizations, bridge financings, sales, acquisitions, or any other distressed transactions.
wiggin(x) provides innovative and market-savvy counsel to NYSE- and NASDAQ-listed companies, emerging companies, underwriters, venture capital firms, and hedge funds. We have the knowledge and experience capital to put to work for you, whether you need help implementing and documenting a venture financing, strategy around optimizing your capital structure, or counsel about a potential public market exit (M&A or IPO).
Securities litigation and investigations demand a professional and specialized legal strategy. wiggin(x) lawyers have the experience to provide excellent representation to you in these high-stakes matters, including government investigations by the SEC, CFTC, FINRA, and DOJ; disputes with shareholders; and other civil and criminal litigation. We’ll navigate the complexities while you keep your focus on growing your business.
Your wiggin(x) defense attorneys will bring their years of experience in the public and private sectors to your side during this stressful time. Our team is composed of former federal prosecutors, in-house global compliance leaders, and private counsel to corporate and individual clients who advise our clients in response to investigations by federal and state criminal, civil, and regulatory authorities; conduct internal investigations; provide corporate governance advice; and advise clients on compliance-related matters. Your well-being is our top priority as we work aggressively to prevent prosecutions, negotiate successful resolutions, and defend clients at trial and on appeal.