Mergers, Acquisitions & Dispositions

Mr. Szuch has significant experience structuring and documenting complex transactions, including asset purchase agreements, equity purchase agreements, and mergers involving both private and public companies. His work includes preparing sophisticated term sheets, leading multi-party negotiations with opposing counsel and key stakeholders, drafting ancillary closing documents (including bills of sale and assignment agreements), and managing comprehensive due diligence across legal, financial, and operational workstreams.

Corporate Restructuring & Reorganization

A substantial portion of his practice involves complex reorganization projects, including multi-entity restructurings, corporate conversions, and governance harmonization across domestic and international subsidiaries. He develops restructuring presentations and tailored risk-management strategies for boards and executive teams and leads the seamless implementation of approved reorganization plans, often under tight timelines.

Venture Capital & Investment Transactions

Mr. Szuch’s experience spans the full spectrum of early-stage and growth-stage financing, including convertible note documentation, SAFE instruments, seed and Series A investment documents, subscription agreements, private placement memoranda, and investor side letters. He also advises founders and investors on preemptive rights, dilution analysis, cap table management, and valuation considerations in connection with sophisticated investment structuring.

Supply Chain & Manufacturing Agreements

He has extensive experience negotiating and drafting complex commercial supply agreements, including manufacturing supply agreements, master supply agreements, and repackaging supply agreements for both domestic and cross-border arrangements. Mr. Szuch’s work emphasizes clear, client-protective provisions addressing indemnification, warranties, intellectual property ownership, quality control standards, and strategic risk allocation.

Entity Formation & Governance

His practice reflects deep experience in entity formation across multiple jurisdictions, including preparing articles of incorporation/organization, operating agreements, bylaws, stockholders agreements, and related resolutions for ventures ranging from single-member LLCs to multi-tiered holding company structures. He also advises on nuanced governance and change-of-control issues such as deadlock resolution, buy-sell provisions, fiduciary duties, and management-control structures.

Equity Compensation & Executive Arrangements

Mr. Szuch’s practice includes the design and documentation of equity incentive plans, non-qualified stock option grant agreements with customized vesting provisions, phantom stock agreements, restricted stock arrangements, profits interests, and repricing transactions. He also supports related employment agreements, proprietary information and inventions agreements, separation and exit documentation, retention arrangements, and non-disclosure agreements tailored to protect competitive advantages.

Real Estate Transactions

He has handled all aspects of complex commercial real estate purchases and sales, including negotiating and revising purchase and sale agreements, coordinating comprehensive due diligence (environmental, surveys, title, and zoning), preparing closing documents, and negotiating commercial leases for office, retail, and industrial properties.

Joint Ventures & Strategic Partnerships

Mr. Szuch’s work includes negotiating and structuring LLC agreements for joint ventures, partnership agreements, and strategic collaborations—including professional athlete ventures, entertainment industry partnerships, and technology company alliances—with a focus on intellectual property and work product ownership, revenue-sharing models, change-order processes, and governance mechanisms.

Secured Transactions & Financing Documentation

He prepares and negotiates financing documentation, including pledge and security agreements, intercreditor arrangements, legal opinions, secretary's certificates, and corporate resolutions in connection with bank financing transactions, as well as loan term sheets, promissory notes, and subordination agreements.

Commercial Contract Negotiation

Mr. Szuch negotiates a wide array of commercial agreements, including master services agreements, consulting agreements, staffing agreements, distribution agreements, specialized service agreements, and private label arrangements. His approach emphasizes aligning business objectives with practical, market-tested legal protections that anticipate and mitigate operational and institutional risks.

Intellectual Property & Technology Matters

Mr. Szuch advises clients on a broad range of intellectual property and technology matters, including software licensing, software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreements, and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) arrangements for companies at all stages of growth. His work encompasses negotiating and drafting technology licensing agreements, end-user license agreements (EULAs), terms of service, licensing arrangements, and service level agreements. He counsels clients on intellectual property ownership and protection strategies, technology transfer arrangements, open source compliance, the unique regulatory and operational considerations associated with cloud-based and subscription technology models and data privacy matters.