Newton Law Group

Our experience throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East enables us to facilitate complex cross-border deals and, at the same time, to use our local market knowledge and deep understanding of the culture and industry-specific issues to pursue the best results for our clients

Our clients include a broad range of multinationals, from major corporations to early-stage private companies. We advise banks, financial institutions, infrastructure funds, as well as individuals.

Our firm brings extensive success in advising on some of the most complex joint ventures and strategic alliances in the commercial and energy sectors.

Our experience includes, but is not limited, to:

• Fundraising: formation of investment funds and alternative investment vehicles, and co-investment transactions
• Investments and Transactions: venture capital and private equity transactions and acquisitions of portfolio investments
• Rule 144 A transactions
• Registered Offerings
• Restructurings
• Preferred stock offerings and rights offerings
• Debt Offerings
• Our firm’s corporate governance lawyers regularly counsel members of the board of directors, the board as a whole and senior executives on the full range of corporate governance issues that confront companies and their leadership, including:
• Board structure and composition
• Duties of independent board chair or independent lead director
• Board committee structure and composition and board committee charters
• Senior executive and director succession planning
• Board and board committee evaluation and self-evaluation processes
• Enterprise risk identification and risk management
• Senior executive and director compensation policies and planning
• Representation of boards and board committees
• Evolving trends and best practices for corporate governance, including review and updating of charter and bylaws

Our firm has the capability to litigate in state and federal courts in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, at the trial and appellate levels

We pride ourselves on making sound procedural decisions from the outset through appeal, using the latest technology, and controlling costs. We engage prudent media strategy whenever doing so is clearly in the best interests of our clients.

While we are not reluctant to go to court, we do so only when it is the best way to achieve our clients’ short- and long-term objectives. Therefore, we can alternatively and skillfully proceed with settlement and alternative dispute resolution, attaining our clients’ goals without encountering the traditional delays and uncertainty of the courts, and their high costs.

Areas of special litigation expertise include: 

• contract and other commercial disputes
• complex insurance and reinsurance coverage matters
• complex financial disputes
• intellectual property disputes
• business torts and product-liability claims
• professional malpractice claims
• government contracts
• investment contracts
• high-level employment controversies

Our firm has the capability to litigate in state and federal courts in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, at the trial and appellate levels

Our lawyers provide a full spectrum of le regarding regulation, transactions, and disputes in a variety of sectors, including services in the field which mainly includeswireline and broadband, wireless, satellite, and Internet and e-commerce, as well as information technology

Our lawyers advise on a broad range of telecommunications-related commercial, transactional, regulatory, and infrastructure matters, particularly those with an international dimension:

• Regulation
• Transactions
• Disputes
• Equipment Suppliers
• Service Providers
• Government and Public Telecom Operators
• Privatization

Our experience also includes the representation of equipment suppliers on a wide range of commercial and regulatory matters, including:

• Agreements for sale, lease, and sharing of switches and other equipment
• Distribution agreements
• Joint ventures and consortia with operators
• VSAT and other related regulations and licensing
• Advising providers of voice telephony over packet switched networks
• Advising on commercial implications of licensing and regulatory regimes;
• Structuring consortia to bid for strategic stakes;
• Performing due diligence; and

Making financing and security arrangements.

Our lawyers advise on a broad range of telecommunication, commercial, transactional, regulatory, and infrastructure transactions, especialy those with an international dimension