Business Law:
Depth and Experience in Business, Finance and Tax Law

With a commitment to excellence and client satisfaction, DRM’s Business Law attorneys provide a complete range of legal services to individuals and business entities in the areas of:

• formation of corporations, limited liability companies and other business organizations
• general business counsel for all types of business transactions
• commercial loan transactions
• equity financings (including venture capital)
• mergers and acquisitions (including sales of stock and assets, management buyouts, recapitalizations and reorganizations)
• formation and operation of captive insurance companies
• federal and state tax planning
• executive compensation (including employment agreements, stock option plans and incentive compensation arrangements)
• business succession and wealth transfer planning
   

Dedicated corporate lawyers representing a wide range of U.S. and international companies in local and global markets

Our Business Law team represents local, regional, national and international clients in the rapidly evolving global marketplace in matters such as:

• represented clients in acquisition and divestiture of substantial tracts of timberland in northern New England and the state of New York
• served as principal outside counsel to national metropolitan private equity firm
• represented a national grocery wholesaler in purchase of 12 retail supermarkets in New York from regional supermarket operator
• reorganized a taxable multi-million group captive insurer from a C corporation into a reciprocal interinsurance exchange, to facilitate more flexible and tax-efficient insurance operations
• assisted the world's largest wireless telecommunications infrastructure management company in acquiring nearly 10,000 assets located in more than 20 states
• served as counsel in $50 million financing utilizing high yield, pay-in-kind debt obligations
• represented a global outsourcing company with business presence in India, London, Australia, Singapore and the U.S.
• served as counsel to $48 million financing and refinancing of client's operations throughout the Western Hemisphere
• served as special US counsel to Swiss company's global CHF 125,000,000 credit facility

Collectively, DRM’s Business Law attorneys are licensed to practice in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Texas, as well as before two U.S. District Courts and the U.S. Tax Court. We are actively involved in professional organizations and trade associations related to our areas of concentration.

The Business Law Group includes the firm's captive insurance, venture capital, tax law and merger & acquisition practices, and works closely with the Intellectual Property Law and Real Estate & Environmental Law Groups in transactions throughout the United States. Experienced members of DRM’s Labor & Employment Law group are available to assist management exclusively in all matter of labor and employment law issues.

Skilled corporate attorneys provide sound advice on how to effectively mobilize your company's assets

DRM’s corporate lawyers have strong business backgrounds and experience in a range of industry sectors from health care to telecommunications and from nanotechnology to supermarkets. We understand the complexities of business operations and can advise you on how to develop, market, and maximize assets in a range of matters including:

• private placements of debt and equity
• tax-free and taxable acquisitions and sales of stock or assets
• in-state or offshore captive insurance domicile
• executive compensation

Entrepreneurial and business-minded, DRM’s attorneys have the legal skill, financial savvy and industry knowledge required to negotiate in the dynamic corporate legal arena on your behalf.

Based in Vermont and New Hampshire with connections around the world

As the exclusive member firm for Vermont of Lex Mundi, the world’s leading association of independent law firms, DRM has immediate entrée to more than 20,000 lawyers in 160 prominent and successful law firms with more than 600 offices in 120 countries. The firm’s association with Lex Mundi gives DRM’s clients the added benefits of:

• access to local market knowledge and experience
• relevant industry focus
• sound business and language skills
• responsive service

Areas of concentration:

Acquisitions & Development
Captive Insurance
Entity Formation
Financial Services Law
General Corporate Law
L3C - Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies
Mergers & Acquisitions
Trusts & Estates
Tax Law
Venture Capital

Metropolitan talent at an excellent value

The quality of life in northern New England has helped the firm attract legal professionals who could easily have joined a firm in a larger metropolitan area. Although small by national standards, the firm is the largest in Vermont, having grown from a two-lawyer rural partnership more than 50 years ago to a diverse law practice employing more than 75 attorneys and legal professionals in six locations in Vermont and New Hampshire. Our clients get the personal attention and value associated with a smaller law firm without sacrificing talent, depth or quality.

Contact Us

To explore how DRM’s Business Law group can help you solve your transactional or operational matter, contact Practice Group Chair David Sylvester.

A full-service New England law firm

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC is a full-service, regional law firm. As clients’ needs expand into other areas of law, the firm’s wide range of focused knowledge and experience and commitment to vigorous collaboration can provide seamless, cost-effective legal representation.