Business Services

As businesses get bigger, so do the challenges. You may know the ins and outs of your business, but how much do you know about the complexities of high finance, taxes, government incentives, or consumer rights? And can you learn-over and over as the law changes-quickly enough to keep up with the pace of your business?

For more than half a century, Bose McKinney & Evans has helped businesses to run smoothly and to close deals throughout the United States and around the world. We get to know your business so we can advise on "routine" issues such as non-compete agreements, compensation plans, sales contracts, or leases. And our years of experience make your special milestones such as mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, bank financings, and other strategic business transactions almost routine for us. With a dollars and common sense approach, we help cut through the red tape and close the deal.

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Businesses use our services to:

• Acquire or dispose of assets or other businesses while protecting important tax or other legal positions
• Structure and document secured financings, asset-based loans, bridge loans, acquisition loans, and non-traditional financings
• Respond to commercial, contract, lease, and consumer issues
• Negotiate government incentives for expansion, training, or new site development
• Protect trade secrets, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights
• Resolve employment, tax, environmental, and regulatory issues
• Establish stock options and other executive and employee compensation and benefits plans
• Implement non-compete, non-disclosure, and other protective agreements
• Raise capital through the sale of equity or debt securities in a traditional underwritten public offering or an institutional placement
• Create and implement shareholder rights or "poison pill" plans
• Implement dividend reinvestment, direct stock purchase, at-the-market, and other programs that make it easier for potential buyers to purchase stock.

No matter what type of acquisitions, reorganizations, securities transactions, or financings can propel the growth of your business, chances are we have helped clients in similar situations so we can work quickly and efficiently for you.

Over the past ten years we have:

• Assisted in more than $2 billion in acquisitions, including mergers, stock transactions, and asset purchases

• Closed more than $5 billion in securities transactions, involving common equity; preferred equity with redemption, conversion, payment-in kind and other features; straight debt instruments; debt instruments with put, call, reset and other features; rights; and other securities

• Closed more than $2 billion in bank and other institutional financings, involving secured, bridge, asset-based, takeout, and other types of loans

Most of these transactions involved difficult tax or regulatory issues, tight time frames, unforeseen obstacles, or other challenges. Our years of advising businesses give us the experience and insight to quickly address potential problems and get down to business. We realize that, bottom line, you need signatures on the bottom line, and achieving your business goals is top priority to us. We get deals done.