We counsel public companies in connection with a variety of securities, disclosure and corporate governance matters, assisting them with SEC reporting, compliance with national securities exchange standards and rules, and state corporate law requirements. Our public company clients range from those listed on the NYSE and Nasdaq to those traded over-the-counter. We proactively help clients craft their SEC filings, make delicate disclosure decisions, and manage their Board and committee memberships and agendas in accordance with SEC and exchange rules. We bring to our clients the expertise cultivated by many members of our Business Group during their years at major metropolitan law firms, but at more cost-effective rates than those firms can offer, often through alternative billing arrangements, assisting our clients in controlling the ever-increasing expense of being public.
Representative Experience
Representation of a NASDAQ-listed issuer in a $10 million at-the-market public offering.
We provided comprehensive representation of a renewable energy facilities developer in a series of tax exempt bond financings, a preferred stock and warrants PIPE, a private placement of common stock and five underwritten public offerings of common stock and convertible debt.
Lead counsel to ImmuCell Corporation in $9 million public offering of common stock. ImmuCell is a growing animal health company that develops, manufactures and markets scientifically-proven and practical products that improve the health and productivity of dairy and beef cattle.
We successfully closed a $12.5 million SEC-registered common stock offering for our client, The First Bancorp, Inc., a $1.4 billion asset bank holding company headquartered in Damariscotta, Maine. This transaction enabled the client to redeem the remaining outstanding preferred stock it had issued to the U.S. Treasury Department under the TARP program in 2009 and achieve a significantly lower cost of capital.
The Business Group's Securities team has advised The Timberland Company for several years with respect to all of its Exchange Act reporting pursuant to a fixed-fee arrangement, helping this client manage its costs while improving service levels in this area.