General Counsel Services
With decades of experience as both outside and in-house business counsel, Whitman Legal Solutions is uniquely qualified to provide your business with dedicated legal counsel who have an intimate knowledge of your business, whether you need regular, on-going legal support but do not wish to hire a full-time in-house lawyer or have in-house counsel but value having knowledgeable outside counsel to assist with sensitive matters.
Working closely with each client, Whitman Legal Solutions gains an in-depth understanding of that client’s unique business needs and objectives and unique business culture. This enables us to provide focused, client-centered, and cost-effective advice and to become a strategic advisor who can assist you not only with current legal needs but who also can anticipate and minimize risk, while providing thoughtful and creative approaches to meet your business goals.
Business Formation and Operations
Forming a new business and complying with many legal and regulatory requirements can be a daunting task. Whitman Legal Solutions is available to assist at every stage in your business, from entity and structure selection through formation, to business financing, board and corporate governance issues, risk management, and business continuity and succession planning. With nearly a decade of experience as General Counsel of a multi-million-dollar company, Elizabeth Whitman also is available to assist businesses with legal issues relating to business operations, including contracting, licensing, and employment-related matters, such as employee handbooks, EEO, FMLA, and wage-hour concerns.
Securities Offerings and Filings
Whitman Legal Solutions is available to advise clients and prepare private placement or offering memoranda and other disclosure documents and filings in connection with securities offerings, including debt and equity private placement securities and crowdfunding. Whitman Legal Solutions also provides guidance on state and federal securities filings, corporate governance and other securities compliance and regulatory matters. Because Whitman Legal Solutions understands that relationships are important in the securities business, Whitman Legal Solutions also is available to negotiate broker-dealer and selling group arrangements and to provide counsel on fiduciary and investor relations concerns.
Healthcare Provider Representation
Whitman Legal Solutions understands that the healthcare business involves a careful balance of patient care, regulatory compliance, and business management. In addition to general counsel and other business law services, Whitman Legal Solutions is able to assist owners of physicians’ practices, senior living communities, nursing homes, and other healthcare providers, with licensing, contracting, due diligence, financing, and structuring of transactions for the acquisition, development, construction, renovation, and leasing of healthcare facilities and businesses.
We also are available to provide guidance and advice to healthcare providers on day-to-day healthcare operational issues, including contracts for services and goods, patient rights, HIPAA, consents to treatment, risk management, employee concerns, and regulatory compliance.
Representative Projects
Following are examples of some of the matters with which Whitman Legal Solutions’ attorney has assisted clients:
Creating and documenting a preferred equity structure, which enabled the client to retire high-cost debt financing for operations
Negotiating and documenting a business acquisition and restructuring the acquiring company to facilitate post-closing earn-out payments to the seller
Coordinating and documenting a company’s expansion to Canada and Latin America
Assisting a start-up with corporate structure and crowdfunding equity offering
Negotiating leases and purchase agreements for medical facilities such as physicians’ practices, ambulatory surgical centers, and assisted living communities
Preparing a private placement memorandum and related documentation for a multi-tranche, debt securities offering designed to provide a long-term solution for the client’s cash needs
Creation of customized employee handbooks, policies and procedures manuals, and standard employee on-board forms, such as confidentiality and non-competition agreements
Licensing of assisted living communities for a national senior housing management company
Advising a physician group with the sale of the practice to a national provider group