Robert Braumuller

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Corporate Biography

As a member of the Corporate Law Group, Robert Braumuller represents companies on commercial matters in a broad range of industries, including services, distribution, manufacturing, retail, franchising, health, real estate and technology.

As a mergers and acquisitions attorney, Mr. Braumuller represents buyers and sellers in middle-market acquisitions and divestitures. This includes stock and asset transactions, tax-free mergers, corporate restructurings and management-led buyouts. He assists buyers and sellers conduct due diligence and formulate appropriate deal structures that promote tax efficiencies and incorporate earn-out formulas, performance hold-backs and escrows to address reasonable business contingencies and legal risks. Mr. Braumuller prepares and negotiates stock and asset purchase agreements in connection with the sale or acquisition of a business. He also represents professional practices on buy-ins, buy-outs, withdrawals and partition actions.

Mr. Braumuller represents companies in all stages of the business cycle, from start-up businesses seeking guidance on formation of their entity, to established companies seeking capital for growth, to mature family-owned companies planning for succession to the next generation. He assists clients on business expansion matters, including through private equity, venture capital and other financing mechanisms. He also counsels owners of closely-held companies on appropriate exit strategies, whether sales to third parties or transfers of ownership within the family, to achieve their personal and estate planning goals in a tax efficient manner.

Mr. Braumuller serves as outside “general counsel” to businesses, bringing in other attorneys from the firm when their particular areas of expertise are invoked. He serves as business counsel to companies, regularly representing them on corporate governance and business matters, and negotiating, drafting and advising them on:

• service and consulting agreements and joint ventures;
• employment and executive compensation agreements;
• computer hardware and software agreements, e-commerce and online advertising transactions, and website development and hosting agreements;
• non-competition, non-disclosure and non-circumvention agreements;
• trade secret agreements and intellectual property license agreements;
• franchise agreements;
• supply, distributor and manufacturing agreements;
• private placement memoranda, subscription agreements and investor statements;
• loan agreements, guarantees, promissory notes and security agreements;
• bylaws and partnership, shareholder and LLC operating agreements; and
• settlement and release agreements.