Public Companies/Public Offerings

We help create effective boards, develop productive relationships, and navigate the challenging issues that inevitably arise in every public company.

For decades, we have guided companies through crucial decisions relating to board composition, committee structure, voting arrangements and takeover defenses – including thousands of hours in boardrooms and strategy sessions. We stay abreast of the evolving changes in corporate governance and keep our clients informed of the latest developments, including on topics such as human capital management and environmental, social and governance (ESG) best practices, among others.

When your company goes public it will attract institutional and retail investors who have different needs and motivations than your venture capital investors. This will change how the company interacts with its stockholders. We work with our clients to follow best practices in stockholder governance and engagement and in developing and maintaining productive relationships with their public company investors. 

We work hand in hand with our clients through the transition from the road show and S-1 messaging to the first earnings call, the first shareholder meeting, and all the communications that follow.

We counsel clients and assist them with SEC disclosure requirements, including annual and quarterly reports, current reporting on Form 8-K, proxy statements, Section 13 and Section 16 reports, and other communications.

As companies mature, we guide them through ever more granular disclosure requirements, including complex executive compensation disclosures, shareholder proposals and other forms of shareholder activism, ESG disclosures, and myriad other disclosure and compliance topics.

Every one of the more than 350 public offerings we’ve closed has been for a venture-backed company. All of our public company clients are all formerly venture-backed, so we bring unique insight into the needs, growth and lifecycle of these businesses.

Public offerings A-Z. We support our public company clients in the full range of capital-raising transactions:

• follow-on offerings
• at-the-market offerings
• Rule 144A convertible notes offerings
• private placements of public equity (PIPEs)
• secondary offerings
• other offering structures

We work seamlessly with underwriters, initial purchasers, strategic investors, auditors, the SEC, stock exchanges, and other market participants to support the capital raising priorities of our clients.