The Growth Companies Practice Group is an interdepartmental group of attorneys which focuses on providing effective legal services to growing companies and private company investors. Members of the group have advised growing companies and their investors for more than 20 years in:

• Private and public fund raising and investments
• Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
• Intellectual property protection
• Development and commercialization
• Officer and employee matters
• Strategic partnering and joint ventures
• Business formation, reorganization and other matters

Clients who work with group attorneys receive access to the full range of services provided by other firm attorneys outside the group. Of particular interest to growing companies and private company investors are the firm’s business tax advisory capabilities, intellectual property practice, commercial litigation practice, estate planning services, FDA regulatory capabilities and environmental law experience.

Co-Practice leader Clinton Richardson's Growth Company Guide 2000 and the www.growco.com website are other valuable resources for growing businesses. For additional information about the practice group and a profile of practice group members, see www.growco.com/sponsors/aggsponsorpage.htm

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	Jeffrey W. Burris Sherman A. Cohen - Co-Practice Leader Robert F. Dow Guanming Fang Tracy M. Field Anne E. Franklin Gerry		Michael Golden Stuart C. Johnson Clint D. Richardson - Co- Practice Leader Robert J. Robinson Andrew J. Schutt Rebecca C. Stone