The Business Group of Ater Wynne provides strategic legal advice to help clients achieve their business goals. Our clients range from closely held family businesses, to high-growth venture-backed companies, to multinational public corporations. Whether your business is a small start-up company or a long-established corporation, our attorneys will provide the counsel you need in today’s fast-paced business environment.
Entrepreneurial companies turn to us for advice in developing and protecting their businesses, complying with federal and state regulations, evaluating risks and pursuing opportunities. Ater Wynne attorneys are skilled in business, corporate finance, securities and intellectual property, as well as regulatory, employment, real estate and dispute resolution.
We know the industries in which our clients do business. And, perhaps most important, we enjoy working with people whose goal is to build something new. Ater Wynne’s legal services include:
- Entity structure and formation
- Negotiation and documentation of private and public financing
- Securities law compliance
- Product and technology research and development transactions
- Strategic partnering
- Licensing and distribution of intellectual property
- Protection of trademarks, copyrights and domain names
- Employment law and executive compensation
- Tax planning and execution
- Global trade
- Domestic and international distribution and marketing
- Mergers, acquisitions, and management buyouts
Related Industries:
Energy
Financial Services
Food & Beverage
Footwear & Apparel
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Natural Resources
Real Estate/Construction
Tribal Economic Development
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| Representative Clients: |
Advanced Inquiry Systems, Inc.
Avnera Corporation
Axio Research, LLC
Azuray Technologies, Inc.
Bank of New York
Cascade Microtech, Inc.
Classic Manufacturing Northwest LLC
Columbia Ventures Corporation
FLIR Systems, Inc.
Home Comfort Zones, Inc.
JELD-WEN Corporation
The Kernel Organization
Northwest Pipe Company
NW Natural
Oregon Health & Science University
Pettit Oil Company
Pixelworks, Inc.
Planar Systems, Inc.
R.C. Hedreen Co.
SignaCert, Inc.
Siren, Inc.
St. Vincent dePaul Society of Lane County, Inc.
The Fruit Company
TransACT Communications, Inc.
TriQuint Semiconductor Inc.
Umpqua Bank
WebTrends, Inc.
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| Representative Transactions: |
FLIR Systems, Inc.
Acquisition of Scientific Materials Corporation
Acquisition of Assets of Brysen Optical Corporation
Acquisition of Indigo Systems
Issuance of Senior Convertible Notes
Northwest Pipe Company
Credit Facility
Issuance of Senior Secured Notes
Follow-on Public Offering of Common Stock
Pixelworks, Inc.
Acquisition of Equator Technologies, Inc.
Issuance of Senior Convertible Notes
TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.
Acquisition of WJ Communications, Inc.
Sale of optoelectronics division to CyOptics, Inc.
SignaCert, Inc.
Series A Preferred Stock and Debt Financing
OHSU Medical Group
Equipment Financing
Issuance of Revenue Bonds for the South Waterfront Project
Home Comfort Zones, Inc.
Series C Preferred Stock Financing
Avnera Corporation
Series C Preferred Stock Financing
Advanced Inquiry Systems, Inc.
Series B Preferred Stock Financing
Prometheus Energy Co.
Preferred Stock Financing
Cascade Microtech, Inc.
Initial Public Offering of Common Stock
Acquisition of UMECH Technologies
Planar Systems, Inc.
Credit Facility
Shareholder Rights Plan
Acquisition of Clarity Visual Systems, Inc.
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Business Attorneys:
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Douglas D. Morris (Contact, Portland)
Kay B. Abramowitz
Jonathan A. Ater
George E. Bonini
Ernest G. Bootsma
William C. Campbell
L. David Connell
Alice Cuprill-Comas
James B. Davidson
Roger T. Dunaway
Valerie D. Fisher
Ning Fu
Wallace A. Glausi
Jathan Janove
Gregg D. Johnson
Nathan A. Karman
Thomas M. Karnes
Frank Langfitt
Akana K.J. Ma
Brenda L. Meltebeke
Nicholas G. Newton
Joel R. Paisner
Michael W. Shackelford
Rob Roy Smith
Kirk W. Smith
James G. Stewart
Heidee Stoller
Gregory E. Struxness
John D. Walch
June M. Wiyrick Flores
Business Paralegals:
Brenda M. Ayers
Noralyn Danielle
Marlene K. Elser
Aaron Hottell
Sara Tait
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