Corporate/Securities Law Group

The lawyers in our Corporate/Securities Law Group strive to become trusted business advisers to our clients, helping them achieve results that propel their businesses forward. To us, that means being effective dealmakers and problem-solvers.

Our lawyers work hand-in-hand with you to gain an in-depth understanding of your short- and long-term business goals. As a part of your strategic team, our lawyers can propose practical solutions for achieving your objectives and help execute your business plan.

General Corporate Counsel

A central aspect of our practice is providing ongoing general and specialized corporate advice to our private and public clients on matters including:

  • Board of directors and corporate governance issues
  • Executive compensation
  • Stock option plan and employee stock purchase plan reporting and administration
  • Strategic planning

Private Companies

For mature private companies, we provide ongoing counsel designed to help our clients take advantage of emerging business opportunities, plan for changes in company structure or ownership and effectively manage the wide range of legal issues that businesses face on a daily basis.

Our privately held clients include corporations, general and limited partnerships, limited liability companies (LLCs) and sole proprietorships.

Emerging Growth Companies

Our lawyers work closely with innovative start-ups in a wide range of industries. We assist emerging companies with a range of their legal needs including:

  • Corporate formation and initial capitalization
  • Shareholder buy-sell agreements
  • Employment contracts
  • Incentive compensation and employee benefit plans
  • Arrangements with vendors, suppliers, lessors and lenders
  • Protection of technology and trade secrets

As these companies mature, they often require capital to fuel and sustain their growth. Our lawyers can offer advice regarding corporate finance issues including venture capital, private placements and initial public offerings, corporate partnering and strategic alliances.

Public Companies

In today's post-Sarbanes-Oxley environment, the relationship between public companies and their outside counsel is critical. Our lawyers can serve as the principal outside counsel for public companies or for their board committees and members.

We provide counsel on a variety of matters including:

  • Initial public offerings and subsequent registered offerings to corporate reorganizations
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Takeover and takeover-defense strategies
  • Design and implementation of equity incentive plans
  • Compliance and reporting under federal and state securities laws
  • Director and officer liability insurance
  • Executive compensation

Corporate/Securities Law Team

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Corporate/Securities Law Group Trade Associations



Series A Fixed-Fee Program

Entrepreneurs drive our country's economy forward with their exciting business ideas and inventions, and seemingly limitless energy and drive. Starting a new company can be extremely rewarding and profitable, but it is also risky. For start-up companies, every decision is critical, including the decision to hire a law firm at a time when money is a limited and precious resource.

Stanislaw Ashbaugh is an "Entrepreneur's Law Firm". Our Corporate/Securities Law Group includes lawyers who have successfully started their own companies and know first-hand the challenges and risks facing entrepreneurs. That is why Stanislaw Ashbaugh created the Series A Fixed-Fee Program, a collection of legal services and tools to help qualified early stage start-up companies with the structuring and closing of a Series A Preferred Stock financing with institutional investors, all for a fixed fee of $20,000 (not including filing fees and out of pocket expenses). Along the way, Stanislaw Ashbaugh's experienced lawyers will provide the guidance and advice needed to successfully close a Series A Preferred Stock financing.

The Series A Fixed Fee Program includes:

  • "Corporate cleanup" documentation needed to facilitate investor due diligence
  • Review of your Business Plan or Executive Summary
  • Preparation of a Private Placement Memorandum or other offering documents necessary for a Series A Preferred Stock Financing
  • Preparation or review and revision of customary Series A Preferred Stock Financing documents, including a legal opinion
  • Issuances of securities to new Investors
  • State and federal securities laws filings

In addition to the Series A Fixed-Fee Program, Stanislaw Ashbaugh also offers fixed-fee packaged services for Company Formation, Stock Option Plan Implementation, Executive Employment and Compensation Agreements, Shareholder Buy/Sell Agreements and "Angel" Financings.

Experienced, high-quality legal counsel at a predictable cost; that is our definition of Law as Results.

Stanislaw Ashbaugh is a proud sponsor of the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (www.nwen.com) and the University of Washington's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (http://bschool.washington.edu/cie/)