Hey, can anyone give me a couple of good reasons for pursuing a career in business law? Thank you!?
Ok, when I hear “business law” I think of transactional corporate law. That’s what i do. I do mostly corporate finance (i.e. venture capital finance), mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, etc. In that setting, I am basically helping the two sides negotiate contracts to implement the transaction. My clients are usually companies, and I am usually negotiating against lawyers who represent other companies, banks or investors. It is adversarial, but at the same time we are all working for a common goal (getting the deal done). Contrast that to litigation, where there is no incentive to work together for a common goal; it is far more adversarial. I also do other work, including drafting agreements that my clients use day to day (employment agreements, sometimes licensing agreements or customer contracts, etc.) and I do some public company reporting work (that means the reporting that certain companies must make to the Securities and Exchange Commission). Oh, and sometimes we have a n
