Private company founders and CEOs are inundated with information and solicitations from professional service firms working in the deal space, including venture capital and private equity funds, accountants, investment bankers and business brokers, and consultants focusing on business succession and “exit” planning and capital raising.
Many clients tell us that, while they have been satisfied with their current advisers in operating and growing their businesses, they would benefit from a new sounding board and honest counsel through a major company event or phase.
Our Solution.
Keeler PLC strives to be a trusted, independent adviser so that a company’s founders and management can have control over the deal process, often without having to hire a whole new law firm.
We prefer working with a company’s existing legal, accounting and financial advisers, but when the current team needs to be supplemented, we can provide or refer the right professionals for a company’s strategic planning or transaction team.
Our Founder.
Steve Keeler has been a business transactions partner in several large and small law firms spanning a 35 year career doing deals. He has been a founder or early partner in several small and larger law firms, and most recently was a partner in one of the largest law firms in the United States.
Steve brings significant experience to business deals, having represented sellers, buyers, companies and investors in a variety of transaction types and in most industries (including manufacturing, distribution, professional service and technology, IT, data analytics and SAAS product and solutions providers to general business and consumer, healthcare and life science, education and publishing, food and agriculture, cleantech and renewable energy, transportation and logistics and other markets).
Steve’s legal experience is supplemented with a background in business, accounting and tax planning. Early in his career, he passed the CPA exam and received a Masters in Taxation law degree (with distinction) from Georgetown Law Center.
Keeler PLC - We Offer Another Deal Execution Option
Law firms range from small, local and more general practice firms to specialty boutiques, “cloud” and “virtual” and full-service “Big Law” firms. Each of these can be the right choice for a company considering a major financing or sale transaction.
Keeler PLCoffers another choice. Experienced lead deal counsel that knows the market, many of the potential investors and buyers and how to best manage a dynamic and unpredictable transaction process. We seek to provide the best counsel, and only the necessary support and coordination, at the right time.
And, in collaboration with your existing legal, accounting and business advisers, we seek to do that at a reasonable fee as compared with legal representation alternatives. We can supplement and leverage your regular law firm, in-house counsel and other advisers, and we commit to working well with them. This ensures continuity of valuable company knowledge and relationships and the provision of only the services and expertise you need for a critical company transaction. We also offer referrals of trusted and known advisers in all areas that a transaction may require.
We seek to be trusted counsel to the company, its founders, CEO, management and board. Our ultimate goal is to guide the financing or sale process to a result that achieves the objectives of the company’s controlling owners. We focus on listening to our client and making what can be a scary and distracting process as smooth as possible.
It’s your business. So, it should be your process and your team.
