Corporate Practice

Farkas + Toikka lawyers have the combined experience of diverse perspectives:

• In-house corporate general counsel
• Outside general counsel
• Founders and top management of start-ups
• Members of small, medium and large law firms
• Trial attorneys

Our corporate practice represents and serves as outside general counsel to a broad range of clients:

• Entrepreneurs
• Technology-based start-ups
• Privately held companies
• Public corporations
• Multinational companies
• Industry trade associations

We advise and assist our corporate clients with:

• Strategy and negotiation
• General business issues and agreements
• Employment policies, problems and agreements
• Raising capital and funding new technology
• Shareholder relations and agreements
• Domestic and global distribution networks and representation
• Structured transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
• Documenting and closing complex transactions
• Technology transfer agreements

We have successfully licensed patents, trademarks, software and know-how in a number of industries, including:

• Semiconductors
• Engineering services
• Telecommunications infrastructure
• Biotechnology
• Pharmaceuticals
• Software

We have also counseled clients on the application of the U.S. export control regulations (ITAR and EAR) to sales and transfer of advanced communications, software and electronic technologies.