Edward Cox is a senior partner in the corporate department and focuses his practice on counseling companies with proprietary technologies and foreign companies with U.S. operations as well as on structured financings.  His clients span a diverse array of industries including software, biotech, insurance and minerals.  Mr. Cox also has a distinguished history of international and domestic public service.  He served former President Nixon in the international arena and was general counsel to a major energy agency which financed synthetic fuels projects under President Reagan. 

Mr. Cox assisted President Nixon with trips to China, Cuba, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, Egypt, France, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, England, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, Pakistan and Turkey.  He also made fact-finding trips to Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Russia.

Representative Matters

Finance and General
Public equity and debt financings representing both underwriters and issuers; private debt, including industrial revenue bonds placed with commercial banks, insurance companies and pension funds, including secured, convertible and subordinated debt, representing in most cases the borrower; equipment lease financings; SEC filings; general corporate and governmental relations advice.

Project Finance
Project finance representing mineral, steel, utility, chemical, paper, commercial bank and insurance companies in the organization and financing of mineral and energy projects; international project finance representing companies in the formation and financing of international joint ventures and in negotiations with local government entities, mining companies, engineering firms, The World Bank, the Eximbank and the managers of bank syndicates.

International
General counseling of foreign companies in their U.S. activities; advice to U.S. clients with foreign subsidiaries or projects.

Union Matters
Representation of a major police union, a union pension fund in its investments, and a union health and welfare fund.

Developing Stage Companies
Formation and structuring of appropriate corporate and partnership entities; private placement of equity to institutions and individuals; employee arrangements including equity incentive programs; dispute resolution advice; intellectual property protection and arrangements, including licensing agreements; industry partnerships, including product development, marketing and equity arrangements; public equity financings, including initial public offerings; private and public merger and acquisition transactions; litigation counseling, including class action matters.

Venture Capital
Venture capital finance representing venture capital firms, including formation of venture capital funds.

Charitable Foundations
Representation in probate and other litigation; financings, including new technology development, international projects and financing of research projects; advice with respect to major grants; general representation.

Dispute Resolution
Investigations and litigation, including representation of an underwriting syndicate charged with fraud in the issuance of utility bonds, the settlement of a dispute between two major oil companies and representation of an engineering company in connection with a failed solar project.

Bankruptcy Matters
Representation of defrauded secured creditor in U.K. receivership/U.S. bankruptcy proceedings and representation of a debtor-in-possession in a refinancing.