Bose McKinney & Evans provides a full-range of legal services to privately owned businesses, publicly traded companies, high-tech organizations, and governmental entities. Whether helping family-owned enterprises or high-tech entities, we serve as legal consultants with a sincere interest in our clients' success.

Our name partners, Lew Bose, Bill Evans and Bob McKinney ,were visionaries in the legal profession and devoted their lives to excellent legal work. Continuing in their tradition, Bose McKinney & Evans has strived to deliver quality legal services for more than 50 years. Our attorneys have a diverse background with experience spanning a wide range of legal disciplines. Approximately 130 attorneys work in cross-disciplinary teams, combining their experience to serve clients in matters from strategic planning to large, complex transactions with tight deadlines. Our firm is organized into various areas of law to better meet client needs.

We are cost-conscious as well as results-orientated. We continually weigh the time and expense of legal alternatives against their benefits to the client's overall business objectives. We discuss our fees with our clients from the outset, and will provide periodic cost and status reports as well as budgets or estimates as the matter progresses.

The attorneys of Bose McKinney & Evans have represented many clients in their quests to take products to consumers, whether to niche groups or to the masses. The attorneys help clients understand the opportunities and hurdles they may encounter, decide who from within and outside the organization should be involved, define strategies and execute plans. The attorneys who assist with commercialization and technology transfer combine their experiences in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property, labor and employment, employee benefits, corporate finance, venture capital, securities laws, taxes, strategic alliances, negotiations and more to help clients see the entire scope of the commercialization process, not just a segment here and a theory there.

Bose McKinney & Evans attorneys assist clients with:

• Selecting and forming the business entity that best suit our client's needs


• Ongoing corporate governance


• Licensing intellectual property, in and out of organizations


• Developing intellectual property portfolio strategies and registering and protecting intellectual property through patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, etc.


• Protecting confidential information and trade secrets


• Researching and preparing freedom of use opinions


• Negotiating confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements


• Determining the appropriate capital structure at various stages of clients' businesses


• Identifying specified sources of capital


• Raising capital through a variety of methods, including sales of securities, debt instruments, mezzanine financing, etc.


• Negotiating and implementing strategic partnerships and joint ventures


• Structuring employee incentive and benefit plans


• Negotiating, documenting and implementing mergers and acquisitions (both sell-side and buy-side)


• Assist with purchases and sales of goods and services


• Tax strategies


• Compliance with federal securities law and state blue sky laws


• Public offerings

When something must be done about ideas, the attorneys of Bose McKinney & Evans are ready to help.