INTERNATIONAL TRADING & FINANCE CORPORATION, LTD.

PRIVATE EQUITY, VENTURE CAPITAL & HEDGE FUNDS

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE, a Division of INTERNATIONAL TRADING & FINANCE CORPORATION, LTD., has extensive expertise and experience in virtually every type of private equity transaction, ranging from domestic and international leveraged buyouts to early stage venture capital financings, for sponsors, lenders and institutional investors. Our attorneys, financial analysts and administrative personnel routinely work on sophisticated private equity transactions such as leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, spin-offs, venture capital financings, going-private transactions, recapitalizations and dispositions. We serve as fund counsel to a number of investment funds, and in recent years have closed a significant number of new private equity funds. We also represent portfolio companies of our private equity and venture capital fund clients in connection with their financing and general corporate needs.

Our attorneys, financial analysts and administrative personnel work closely with entrepreneurs and management during every stage of the private company lifecycle, including start-up, seed funding, venture capital financing, debt financing, acquisitions, public offerings and dispositions. Our experience covers a broad cross-section of industry sectors including manufacturing, services, finance, insurance, technology, software, biotechnology, medical devices, communications and media. Our experience with technology and emerging company businesses allows us to introduce venture capital and angel investors to investment opportunities while, through our relationships with venture capitalists, we are able to introduce emerging companies to prospective investors. We handle a variety of financing transactions, including public offerings, traditional venture capital equity financings, research and development limited partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions as well as corporate partnering agreements.

Our private equity practice covers all aspects of private equity transactional activities including mergers and acquisitions, direct equity investments, PIPEs, debt (bank, high yield and mezzanine) finance, dispositions, sale-leasebacks, restructurings, co-investments, recapitalizations, joint ventures and management compensation issues. Our attorneys, financial analysts and administrative personnel regularly provide our institutional and sponsor clients with creative and business focused counsel with respect to legal, business and management issues that arise in private equity transactions.

Our corporate transactional attorneys, financial analysts and administrative personnel routinely advise private equity deal sponsors on all aspects of the relevant transactions, including debt and equity financing, deal and tax structure, merger and acquisition negotiation and documentation, due diligence, management arrangements, antitrust compliance, deal implementation and ultimate disposition and refinancings. With broad experience in complex financing transactions and corporate business support, we bring together an interdisciplinary team experienced in all areas of corporate finance, business counseling, corporate governance, securities, tax, ERISA, labor and employment, technology and intellectual property and litigation, as well as expertise in most regulatory areas such as antitrust, environmental, health and safety, telecommunications and transportation and infrastructure.