SERVICES

Westerlund Law PLLC provides legal advice to companies in a variety of industries and sectors including fintech, energy, digital media, real estate and others, and always with an understanding of your commercial goals.  The firm works with clients at all stages of your journey, beginning with initial concepts and setting strategy, to devising structures and negotiating to drafting agreements and closing deals.

• Asset purchase / sale
• Stock purchase / sale
• Joint Venture agreements
• Shareholder agreements
• Entity formation
• Corporate governance
• Board meetings
• Board, Management and Shareholder matters
• International transactions

Whether you are negotiating a strategic relationship or agreement with a supplier or customer, making a key executive hire or raising debt or equity capital to grow your business, having a trusted advisor with deep experience is invaluable.  Westerlund Law PLLC has the experience you can rely on as an entrepreneur or part of an executive management team to achieve your next growth milestone.

• Contracts to procure goods / services
• Corporate partnerships
• Employment related contracts
• Financings (debt and equity)
• IP/Licensing agreements
• Mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
• Negotiations
• Structuring real estate transactions
• International business transactions

Jennifer Westerlund has led legal teams on successful investment transactions with large private equity and venture capital funds based in New York, London and Washington, D.C.   Individual angel investors as well as groups based in Research Triangle Park trust Westerlund Law PLLC to advise them from term sheet negotiations through closings.

• Legal and business due diligence
• Investment structuring
• Term sheets and Letters of Intent
• Deal expertise
• Investment contracts
• Closings
• Post-investment documentatio

Getting ahead of management and ownership changes is a must if private companies are going to preserve value, survive and thrive in the future and ensure harmony in family businesses.  Solid succession takes years of advance planning to protect what you have built and meet both your personal and business goals.

• Corporate governance planning
• Entities and company structure
• Positioning your company for financing transactions to effect leadership and ownership changes
• Collaborating with money managers and tax advisors for a comprehensive strategic succession plan
• Strategic transactions to maximize value and succession options

C-suites and business owners can find it a lonely road.  Having a like-minded team member to work shoulder-to-shoulder can be invaluable.  Whether it is a major contract, an international transaction or navigating a critical meeting for relationship building, work with a trusted advisor who understands your business and your goals.

• Set strategy
• Build decision trees
• Rehearse scenarios
• Provide independent perspective
• Eliminate emotions
• Prepare positions and pros/cons from strength
• Goal and timeline assessments

Every business requires capital over the course of its lifetime.  Preparing yours to successfully get funding is an art not a science.  Your financing options depend on the type of business and the market at your time of need.

• Evaluating strengths and weaknesses of your business from the perspective of your capital providers
• Assessing financing options
• Identifying the correct sources of capital for your business
• Building and refining your pitch for funding
• Recommendations on corporate governance improvements