The Firm was founded in 1997 by big firm refugees as a business law boutique to provide both traditional corporate legal representation and integrated out-sourced general counsel services to our private and public company clients. Our relationships and experience dealing with the SEC, Nasdaq, lenders, private equity firms, venture capital firms, investment banks and, most significantly, numerous state regulators have led clients to refer to us as an outsourced, in-house legal department. Further, by providing "GC" services on an out-sourced basis, the Firm and the client safeguard the protections afforded by the "attorney-client" privilege, which has increasingly been under attack in situations where an in-house counsel's roles and duties are blurred between that of officer and attorney. We have been involved in all manner of transactions specifically including private-private, public-public and public-private. With offices in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Bethesda, MD and the State capital of Harrisburg, PA, there are few if any firms as nimble as ours who can provide front line lawyers with comparable experience and expertise in the representation of companies seeking timely and cost effective, results- oriented solutions. And, while we have acted as both lead and local counsel in numerous transactions, we are particularly adept at managing local counsel for companies that operate in multiple jurisdictions to make sure that positions taken in individual matters are consistent with the company's overall strategy, including compliance with master credit facilities and other contractual obligations with which local counsel engaged for a specific matter may not be familiar. By concentrating our law practice on the businesses we know best, we don't spin or reinvent wheels. If we do not believe that your matter fits squarely within our areas of expertise, we will happily refer you to someone else. Our streamlined approach, together with the lower overhead associated with a small firm, allows us to provide expert representation and personalized service in a cost effective manner.