Business & Commercial

Castle & Castle has served the demanding needs of businesses for over twenty-five years. Castle & Castle helps clients achieve success in forming legal entities, handling changes in those entities, buying, selling, and financing businesses, and addressing the full range of day-to-day legal issues that confront businesses.

Beginning in 2002, Bruce Castle served as General Counsel for sophisticated, large companies, both public and private, with worldwide operations. He was the “go to” person to avoid and solve legal problems for those companies. Bruce Castle, through a collaborative approach with peers, has steered companies through treacherous waters with respect to:

• Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures (M&A)
• Financings
• Corporate restructuring, including bankruptcy
• Complex customer and vendor contract drafting and negotiation
• Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
• Shareholder relations
• Intellectual property licensing and portfolio maximization
• Day-to-day employment matters, including management and rank-and-file training on best practices
• Corporate governance, including Board of Directors and management corporate best practices
• ’34 Act periodic reporting and other securities law compliance issues
• Company-specific federal regulatory compliance, including procurement, export, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FAA, FCC and other areas
• Risk minimization strategies
• Management of outside law firm performance and cost

Castle and Castle achieves tangible results for companies. As an example, in 2002 Bruce Castle was hired as Vice President and General Counsel of SBS Technologies, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed embedded computing company, the day after Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted by the US Congress. Mr. Castle hit the ground running by immediately creating and implementing a plan to establish a wide variety of corporate best practices to ensure full compliance. That project was completed successfully and on time. For more examples of Bruce Castle’s proven accomplishments, see Proven Accomplishments.

Castle & Castle can put their wealth of experience and skills to work to add value and reduce risk to your business as an outsourced General Counsel.