Mr. Gene Schleppenbach represents early-stage to mature companies in diverse industries concerning a variety of corporate, high-tech and intellectual property matters. His corporate experience includes representing clients on formation issues, corporate governance, shareholder agreements, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, securities regulation issues, partnership and LLC matters, joint ventures, commercial contracts, debt and equity financings, including venture financings, employee stock option plans and executive compensation agreements.

Mr. Schleppenbach also counsels his clients on alternative sources of financing, including federal grant programs (e.g., SBIR, STTR, ATP), federal and state Gap funding programs and government sponsored venture funds. Mr. Schleppenbach advises clients on a variety of government contract/procurement issues and has represented clients on numerous mergers and acquisitions of government contractors, including conducting due diligence, negotiating and drafting transaction documents, arranging for innovation of contracts and obtaining regulatory approvals. His experience includes advising multi-national domestic and foreign companies through the various statutes and regulations that impact foreign investment in the United States. He also counsels clients on prime and subcontracts, teaming agreements and joint ventures.