PRACTICE AREAS

CORPORATE

Our approach to corporate and capital markets transactions combines a focus on minimizing risk and maximizing opportunities for impact, growth and ROI. Our corporate services include, among many others:

  • Crafting and negotiating indentures, purchase and assignment agreements, merger and acquisition agreements, and other key deal documents

  • Regulatory compliance

  • Deal structuring around timing and tax implications

  • Corporate structuring, formation, filing and oversight

  • Preparation and review of registration statements and offering documents

REAL ESTATE

Our real estate practice boasts attorneys who are not only immersed in the legal landscape of real estate, but who also have successful track records as commercial and residential real estate developers, managers and owners in their own right.  We advise:

  • Commercial tenants and landlords in lease negotiations and disputes

  • Commercial mortgage and securitized loan servicers on borrower requests, servicing obligations and REMIC compliance

  • Buyers and sellers of commercial, student, multi family, and mixed-use real estate

  • Developers on zoning, land use, environmental and tax issues

STRUCTURED FINANCE

Raju LLP’s structured finance attorneys offer a best-in-class expertise in financial law, enhanced by their own professional backgrounds in private equity, real estate finance, investment banking and securitized lending. We provide counsel to originators, servicers, private equity funds, REITs, collateral managers and trustees in connection with a wide range of commercial real estate assets at all phases of the securitization process.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Raju LLP’s intellectual property team offers our clients unmatched technical acumen and industry expertise in advancing, monetizing and protecting your ideas and innovations.  Our IP group routinely and effectively handles copyright, trademark and patent matters, IP litigation, licensing, and representation before both national and international quasi-judicial agencies.

LIFE SCIENCES

Our biotech and life sciences group practices at the cutting edge of the cataclysmic advances in this sector. As pharmaceutical breakthroughs give rise to novel legal, business and ethical questions and challenges, our attorneys, a number of whom possess individual expertise in the study and application of chemistry, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical development stand ready to assist our clients with:

  • Business strategies for market entry

  • Corporate governance and contracts

  • Financing, private offerings, venture capital and IPOs

  • R&D and licensing agreements

  • Drug discovery

  • Compliance and investigations

  • Patents and IP protection

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS

At the foundation of Raju LLP’s government relations practice are decades of collective experience working with, and within, local, state and federal government offices and agencies. Our team brings to bear deep strategic relationships with key government contacts, and nuanced expertise in all manner of legal and policy matters that implicate the involvement of regulatory authorities. Raju LLP’s government relations clients can expect expert representation and advocacy from our government relations professionals across the spectrum of regulation-heavy sectors, such as:

  • Insurance

  • Telecommunications

  • Environmental

  • Healthcare

  • Pharma

IMMIGRATION

Our immigration practice group is deeply attuned to the rapidly shifting political, economic and legal landscape as it pertains to immigration, and take a correspondingly nimble, dynamic and creative approach to representing our immigration clients. Raju LLP’s immigration law experts advise U.S. and foreign businesses and individuals  alike in all manner of nationality and workforce matters, from visas and naturalization to  pre-immigration tax planning and EB-5 petitions for immigrant investors.  Among our immigration law services, we:

  • Develop protocols for transferring employees from non-U.S. companies to their U.S. affiliates and parents

  • Obtain H-2B and other visas

  • Advocate on behalf of U.S. business in Department of Labor and other administrative enforcement proceedings

  • Prepare and file temporary admission and permanent residence petitions

  • Draft, review and audit employment documents to verify compliance with U.S. immigration regulations

Representative Matters 

  • Our CMBS professionals have handled hundreds of billions of dollars in collateral substitutions, securitizations, securitized mortgage loan assumptions and all manner of mortgage servicing matters relating to commercial properties around the country.

  • Our real estate team advises a developer and redeveloper of historic properties for a range of property portfolios in the Philadelphia area, from progressive student-housing and high-end mixed use complexes to senior living facilities and urban center office highrises.

  • Our financial markets and securities experts represented a diverse consortium of venture fund investors who participated in a $2.5 billion emergency round of convertible debt funding for an app-based FINRA regulated broker-dealer, navigating regulatory hurdles, preparing offering and collateral documents, and ensuring timely closing of the investment.

  • When a Pennsylvania-based medtech firm found itself in a dispute with a county agency over the sale and distribution of an innovative COVID-19 antibody testing technology, our life sciences, litigation and crisis management experts collaborated to advance our client’s position through litigation and the court of public opinion.

  • Our corporate team provides ongoing counsel and advice to a Pennsylvania pharma company developing a breakout COVID-19 vaccine for introduction to the national market.

  • Raju LLP serves as embedded counsel to a cohort of innovative venture capital and private equity firms, coordinating funding placements for Series A investments in a range of biotech, manufacturing, real estate and tech target firms.

  

Commitment to Community

Raju LLP believes that serving our clients means uplifting the communities in which they operate. Below are just a few of the civic institutions that our colleagues serve, through legal representation, network-building, fundraising and boots-on-the-ground volunteerism:

  • The Germination Project: A catalytic innovation incubator that recruits the best and brightest high-school students to build a self-sustaining ecosystem for the next generation of the Philadelphia region’s business, civic and policy leaders.

  • The Philadelphia Citizen: A non-profit, non-partisan media organization with a dual mission: To provide deeply reported journalism that emphasizes solutions that can move our region forward, and to actively reignite citizenship in and around Philadelphia.

  • The Ten: A leadership platform that brings underserved high school students and business executives together for a yearlong leadership collaboration that promotes self-discovery and the development of a personal leadership style.

  • The IntXchange: A crucible for the development of a lasting reciprocal relationship between the Philadelphia and the ascendant cultures and economies of South Asia. In collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the IntXchange has made possible the Initiative for South Asian Contemporary Art, honoring eminent artists from South Asia and stimulating new connections between the Indian Subcontinent and the Philadelphia region.

  • The Ark Institute: A consortium of individuals and institutions representing the philanthropic, life sciences, public health, and supply chain management sectors, combining their expertise and moral determination to meet the challenge both of ending the current COVID-19 pandemic and preparing to meet inevitable future epidemics head-on.

 

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