Matthew Hafter represents clients in diverse corporate and commercial matters, including venture capital transactions; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; public and private securities offerings; securities reporting and compliance matters; commercial credit and secured lending transactions; and corporate governance matters. He has also negotiated and drafted joint venture, corporate partnering and strategic alliance arrangements, software development and license agreements, distribution agreements and other complex commercial agreements for both U.S. and foreign entities. His clients include entrepreneurs involved in technology commercialization and the investors who fund them, manufacturers and service providers, start-up and established private and public enterprises, as well as stockholders and directors (including special committees) who seek counsel on fiduciary duty issues. Charles Modlin is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group of Seyfarth Shaw LLP and co-hiring partner of the New York office. Modlin advises private and public companies on day-to-day operations, strategic corporate initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, financings, and capital market transactions. He also represents financial institutions in a wide variety of matters, including in respect of their lending activities. Modlin acts as primary outside counsel to large and small companies, advising boards of directors and senior executives in a wide range of corporate, securities, regulatory, finance, corporate governance, executive compensation, D&O, and intellectual property matters. He also works with companies in restructuring their balance sheets, and negotiating with lenders and other stakeholders in respect thereof.