Troutman Pepper Locke Represents Avem Partners in Acquisition of FMI Aerostructures
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The Los Angeles office of Troutman Pepper Locke is a full-service office providing a broad range of legal services that reflect the dynamic and diverse economy of the region. Our attorneys assist clients in all types of corporate and commercial transactions, litigation, and regulatory matters, leveraging the experience and knowledge of our team.
Our practice areas include real estate, construction law, corporate and securities transactions, financial services, entertainment law, bankruptcy, restructuring and insolvency, investigations, and insurance regulatory matters. We have strength in commercial and complex litigation, general commercial transactions, corporate representation, privacy, security, and data protection, digital health and other health care innovations, and the full range of litigation, including securities class actions, corporate control disputes, consumer litigation, and breach of contract and other general business litigation.
Our litigation team handles individual and class action cases across diverse practice areas, including commercial disputes, employment/wage and hour, entertainment, environmental, private equity, insurance and reinsurance disputes and coverage analysis, intellectual property, product liability, toxic torts, and unfair business competition. We represent financial services, insurance, entertainment, industrial, and local government clients in litigation, transactional, and regulatory matters.
Our corporate and transactional attorneys regularly lead mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing transactions, and corporate governance for clients in a wide range of industries, including insurance, financial services, health care, software, manufacturing, retail, and private educational institutions. We also assist clients in the early stages of their business, advising entrepreneurs on organizational and capital raising activities, and both emerging businesses and venture capital firms in debt, equity, and hybrid financing transactions.
The principal real estate practice area of our Los Angeles office involves representing commercial banks, insurance companies, and other institutional lenders, as well as private investors, local and regional developers, and equity capital providers. Our real estate transactions include the acquisition, disposition, financing, and leasing of properties such as industrial facilities, office buildings, multifamily housing, residential tract developments, retail centers, and hotels. We also have substantial experience in restructuring, workout, and foreclosure of troubled real estate investments.
Our attorneys are deeply committed to giving back to the community. We participate in local nonprofit and civic boards, work with community-based programs, and support education, health and welfare, arts, children and youth, and faith-based organizations. Members of our Los Angeles team sit on the boards of Public Counsel, the Mexican American Bar Foundation, Muslim Bar Association of Southern California, Inner City Law Center, Women Lawyers of Los Angeles Racial Justice and Equality Advisory Council, and the Just the Beginning Summer Legal Institute steering committee, among others. We also have a longstanding commitment to pro bono legal services, including the representation of tenant associations and community-based nonprofits in the development and preservation of affordable housing projects.
Our Los Angeles office attorneys provide employment advice and counseling, advise businesses on independent contractor issues, and represent clients in private equity litigation involving distressed assets and due diligence. We also handle technology and intellectual property matters involving patent, software, and technology licenses, development agreements, outsourcing arrangements, and similar agreements.
Since 2004, our office has participated in Verbum Dei High School’s Corporate Work Study Program, which sends two students to work once a week plus one day per month in return for a portion of their tuition to be covered by the firm.
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