Bradford D. West – Corporate & Securities Lawyer / GC-level Counsel 

Brad West has over 40 years of experience in corporate finance law and accounting, with a focus on complex mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private placements, and public and private securities offerings. He frequently serves as outside General Counsel to founder-led companies, private equity sponsors, and real estate investment platforms, advising on capitalization, governance, SEC reporting, and strategic transactions. 

 Representative roles include:

• Outside General Counsel to a real estate private equity platform that grew to $2.5+ billion AUM.
   
• Lead transactional counsel and strategic advisor to founders preparing for sale to public and PE buyers.
   
• Counsel to boards and management on SEC reporting, governance, and complex capital structures.

Capabilities include:

• Mergers & Acquisitions
   
• Joint Ventures & Real Estate Finance
   
• Private Placements & Capital Markets
   
• Venture, Growth, Early & Seed Stage Capital
   
• Offshore & Cross-Border Transactions
   
• Entity Structuring, Governance & General Counsel Services

Fern Watts – Corporate & Securities Lawyer - West PLC Project Attorney

Few corporate attorneys match the breadth of experience that Fern Watts has acquired over the last three decades as a practicing member of the New York and Florida bars representing public and private companies, both domestically and internationally, in all types of corporate and finance transactions. From that experience flowers a perspective that serves clients with strong legal work from an attorney who understands what makes businesses hum.

Since coming out of Harvard Law in 1982, whether an associate, partner or general counsel, Fern has attacked the unfamiliar until it becomes the familiar. She’s eschewed specialization in favor of a sweeping knowledge of fields as established as railroads or as new as carbon credits. As far as legal roles, she’s expert at serving as issuer’s and underwriter’s counsel in public offerings of equity and debt securities; serving as issuer’s counsel in private placements of equity and debt securities including 144A offerings; advising buyers and sellers in mergers, acquisitions and dispositions; advising public companies regarding disclosure and compliance matters; and advising directors and executive officers regarding corporate governance matters.

Areas of Concentration

• Corporate      and securities
• Public      and private offerings
• Mergers      and acquisitions
• Financing      transactions
• Joint      ventures
• Reorganizations
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Significant Representations

• Represented      RailAmerica in connection with numerous acquisitions and financing      transactions.
• Represented      FDP Corp. in connection with its acquisition by SunGard.
• Served      as issuer’s and underwriter’s counsel in numerous public offerings of      equity and debt securities.
• Served      as issuer’s counsel in 144A debt offerings.
• Served      as issuer’s counsel in numerous private placements of equity securities.
• Represented      public companies in acquisitions of public and private companies and      related financing transactions.
• Represented      public companies in domestic and international syndicated loan      transactions.
• Represented      public companies in merger transactions.
• Represented      public company in going private transaction.
• Represented      private and public companies in the capital formation process, as well as      mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures.
• Assisted      companies with general corporate governance matters including shareholder      agreements.

Education

• D.,      Harvard Law School, 1982
• A.,      Linguistics, 1979

Admitted to Practice

• Florida
• New York