Stonecipher’s corporate practice provides a wide array of legal services to a variety of businesses and industries. The firm serves several of the largest privately held companies in western Pennsylvania in connection with their most important business transactions. Although many are based in the Pittsburgh area, these companies have operations throughout the United States. Stonecipher also represents many smaller and mid-sized privately held businesses, including various start-up companies.
Stonecipher advises and counsels and serves as general counsel to business in areas such as entertainment and media, beverage and bottling, construction, health care, financial services, technology, defense contractors, food service, real estate, physician practices, internet retailers, and oil & gas.
Stonecipher’s corporate practice focuses on areas such as:
- Day-to-day business contractual work
- Buying and selling entire businesses or specific assets of those businesses
- Negotiating financing arrangements with banks and other lenders, including:
- traditional bank financing agreements
- inter-creditor arrangements
- agented financing agreements
- Note placements
- Representing family-owned and closely held businesses in dealing with issues such as:
- shareholder redemptions
- buy/sell arrangements and share transfer restrictions
- shareholder agreements and shadow equity agreements
- ownership transitions and generational planning
- other matters unique to private and family owned organizations
- Website - related agreements such as Hosting Agreements, Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policies, and software and content license agreements
- the merger of a client with a national manufacturer of restaurant quality frozen food
- a joint venture between a client and another company for the operation of NASCAR racing teams
- Stadium Naming Rights Agreements
- Aircraft Purchase and Sales Agreements -- having represented both buyers and sellers of aircraft
- Exclusive Beverage Distribution Agreements
Representative transactions: