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Our Firm

Nancy Fallon-Houle is a corporate and securities attorney, with 20 years' experience in representing entrepreneurs, start-ups, early stage and emerging growth companies in their corporate law matters, and in their stock offerings.  This boutique corporate and securities law practice represents new and existing businesses in their business formations, business transactions and securities law compliance.  We are located in Downers Grove, Illinois, in west suburban Chicago.

· We form new businesses.

· We prepare and negotiate business agreements, handle corporate maintenance, and other corporate matters for small business, and for entrepreneurial and growth companies.

· We handle legal matters for early to-mid-stage companies that contemplate raising equity capital from private investors.  We guide and advise companies that are planning for subsequent funding through venture capital investments, strategic partnerships, acquisition or IPO.  We effect the long-term legal and business preparation for those subsequent offerings or financings.

· We handle securities law compliance for private offerings, for private hedge funds, for investment advisers, for Regulation D issuers, for SEC EDGAR filers, and Blue Sky (state securities registrations) for private placements and public offerings.

· We counsel, and prepare documents for, parties who are buying a business or selling a business, or who are splitting up a business among the existing business partners.

· We counsel and prepare the company to endure the due diligence of investors, customers, suppliers, business alliance partners, venture capital firms or investment bankers.  We structure and prepare the company for subsequent venture capital funding, acquisition or IPO; and we groom the company toward those funding strategies.

· The services we provide include: Incorporating new businesses; documenting corporate history and transactions (business issues and stock issues); preparing shareholder agreements and LLC agreements; corporate clean-up and maintenance; preparing and negotiating business agreements and equity investment agreements; conducting due diligence; writing securities offering memos and subscription agreements; and writing and negotiating investor equity agreements.

Law Practice Style

The attorney and each staff member have been trained by years of experience at large Chicago law firms, with the attention to accuracy and excellence.  Nancy's years of advising small businesses has been incorporated into this small firm environment with personal attention and practical business advice.  The practice is built on a teaching style, emphasizing advocacy for smaller businesses.  We write documents in clear and concise Plain English, which clients can understand and absorb, and use in the future, perhaps without a lawyer.  We emphasize integrity in business transactions.  We impose full disclosure in offering memos, as well as thorough due diligence on the company and principals, and for parties with which they will do business.  Transactions and agreements are built on aggressive negotiations for our clients, yet with balance, fairness and integrity to both parties.


We represent:

Start-Ups

Start-Ups in their business formations (incorporations or LLC formations), and the general corporate items and filing items required to launch a new business.

Small Business Entrepreneurs

Start-Ups, Early-Stage, & Emerging Growth Companies in their General Corporate Matters and Business Contracts.

Early-Stage to Mid-Stage Businesses Raising Capital

Preparation of Securities Offering Memos, Investor Financing, Due Diligence Responses for early stage companies.  Early preparation for subsequent rounds of financing such as Venture Capital Financing; and long-term planning for acquisition or IPO.

Small Business Buyers and Sellers

Corporate and transactional legal documents for buying or selling a small business to mid-sized business: Business Acquisition or business disposition (business sale), in Asset Purchase or Stock Purchase transactions; Negotiate and structure transaction if requested, and perform the related Due Diligence.

Securities Funds / Hedge Funds

Early-Stage & Emerging Funds, in their securities Offering Memos, entity formation, operational and investor agreements, regulatory compliance documents and filings, registrations and notice filings, with SEC, NFA, CFTC and state securities commissions.  Blue Sky and Regulation D Securities compliance for funds of all sizes, small to very large funds, and managers of multiple large funds.

Futures & Commodities Registration

NFA Registrations and compliance filings for CPO, CTA, AP and Rule 4.7 and 4.13 Exemptions for commodity pool, futures fund or options fund.

Investment Advisers (Investment Advisors)

Form ADV preparation and filing with the SEC and the state securities commissions.  IARD, WebCRD, and NASD/CRD electronic filings, compliance and maintenance.  Large and Small Advisers compliance, and new Adviser Formation.

Blue Sky and Regulation D Rule 506 Compliance, Public Offering Blue Sky

Blue Sky law (state securities law) experience 21 years for all types of offerings, and all sizes, public and private where Blue Sky clearance is required, including: Securities law interpretation issues before state securities regulators and SEC and Blue Sky Exemptions notice filings or registrations.  Blue Sky counsel for Private placements.  Blue Sky co-counsel to your public securities counsel, for the registration, negotiation & clearance of exchange offerings, rights offerings, SB-2 offerings, SCORs, DPOs, Regulation A Offerings.

EDGAR Filers (SEC Filer Compliance) for Executives and Investors

Section 13 and Section 16 compliance filings on EDGAR for “EDGAR Filers”.  EDGAR Filing compliance for buyers, sellers and investors of shares in public companies, Officers, Directors and Executives of public companies, and control persons of public companies.  We prepare SEC filings such as Schedule 13D, Scheudle 13G, and Section 16 filings such as Form 3, Form 4 and Form 5.  We submit them through an EDGAR filing service to the SEC.

General Corporate

Corporate maintenance, corporate clean-up, qualifications to do business, annual reports, resolutions and general corporate agreements, such as shareholder agreements, for large and small corporations.

Business Ventures and Business Split-Ups

Deal structure and negotiation, as well as corporate and legal documentation for business partnerships, LLCs, and for business split-up transactions.

Attorney

  • Nancy Fallon-Houle, Attorney, 21 years Experience, Biography

Regular Staff

  • Shelley Scott, Administrative Assistant, Legal Assistant & Secretary, 15 Years Experience
  • Shelley Aggarwal, Part-Time Law Clerk, 1 Year Experience

Overflow Staff

  • Diane Petterson, Legal Secretary, 33 Years Experience
Contact Nancy Fallon-Houle at nfallon@nfhlaw.com, or staff at 630-598-0400 (main) or Nancy at 630-963-0439 (direct)
5449 Bending Oaks Place, Downers Grove, Illinois 60515, DuPage County
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