We provide a full range of legal services to our clients in the food and beverage and food service industries. We have helped such companies raise millions of dollars in capital through private offerings of their stock, negotiate complex agreements for the production and distribution of their products, comply with applicable laws and regulations, protect their trademarks, trade secrets and other intellectual property, and sell select assets, operating divisions or their entire enterprise.
Our many years of collective experience representing growing private companies make us uniquely suited to provide informed, practical advice regarding most legal issues that confront such businesses, and to act quickly and decisively to assist them in overcoming legal obstacles and completing their transactions. Our smaller size and limited overhead allow us to offer our services at rates significantly lower than the bigger firms with which we regularly compete.
Our attorneys specialize in assisting private companies with:
- structural issues, such as choice of entity, raising capital from angel investors, venture capital and private equity firms, and strategic partners, corporate governance, buy-sell arrangements, and corporate restructuring,
- operational issues, such as employment, contracts, borrowing, real estate, intellectual property, business disputes and acquiring other companies or their assets, and
- ownership transition and liquidity events, including primarily mergers and acquisitions.
Many of our clients are in the food and beverage and food service industries, including currently Artuso Fine Pastries, Inc., Attune Foods, Bridge Brand Chocolates, California Vegetable Specialties, Gott’s Roadside, Just Desserts, Mary’s Gone Crackers, Nestle Dreyer’s Ice Cream Company, Palio D’Asti Restaurant, Pat Kuleto, Picán Restaurant, Rock Wall Wines, and Yan Can Cook to name just a few.
Some of our representative transactions include:
- Private sale of Rosenblum Cellars, Inc. to Diageo Chateau & Estate Wines
- Private sale of a majority interest in Kuleto Estates Winery to Foley Family Wines
- Private placement investments in Attune Foods, Mamma Chia, Mary’s Gone Crackers, Rock Wall Wines, and RustRidge Winery
| attorneys in practice | |
|---|---|
 Don Buder |
 Greg L. Beattie |
