Corporate Governance

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Practical Guidance for Private Company Leadership and Investors

Strong governance supports sound decision-making and protects long-term value. In private companies with multiple equityholder groups, clear governance frameworks are essential to aligning interests and reducing friction among owners, managers and boards.

Our Services

Sound governance underpins effective decision-making and long-term value creation. For private companies with multiple classes of equityholder groups, well-structured governance frameworks are essential to maintaining alignment, managing risk and enabling leadership to act with clarity and confidence.

Our experience includes:

Governance design for private companies with multiple equity classes
Board and committee composition and operation
Investor rights and protective provisions
Fiduciary duties and conflict-of-interest management
Special and strategic committee support
Shareholder, LLC and partnership agreements
Bylaw and charter drafting and amendments
Director and officer indemnification
Governance matters in connection with transactions and reorganizations

Jasso’s governance practice complements the firm’s transactional work while also supporting clients in day-to-day ownership and leadership issues. Our attorneys draw on extensive experience to bring institutional discipline, perspective and balance to private-company governance.

Integrated Expertise

Jasso maintains a network of outstanding tax and trusts and estates specialists who collaborate with our clients through our firm. This integrated model allows us to deliver seamless, multidisciplinary support while maintaining the discretion and responsiveness our clients expect.

Focused. Disciplined. Aligned.

Jasso provides private companies with experienced counsel that combines the sophistication of institutional practice with the alignment and pragmatism that corporate governance demands.