Practice Areas

Built for cross-border transactions, regulatory strategy, and business-critical execution

Below is MagStone's core practice-area coverage, built to support cross-border transactions, regulatory demands, and business-critical growth moments.

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Solution-Focused

We shape advice around commercial outcomes, timing, and the next executable step.

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Execution-Driven

We treat coordination, drafting, and momentum as part of the legal work, not separate from it.

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Cost-Efficient

Lean staffing and clear scoping help clients match legal spend to actual complexity.

04

Timely & Responsive

We move quickly at critical moments and keep decisions from stalling in legal process.

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Cross-Border Expertise

We are built for matters that span the U.S., Greater China, and Asia across multiple workstreams.

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Venture Capital Financing

We advise founders, growth companies, and investors on financings from seed through later stages, including structuring, documents, and closing execution.

  • Equity and convertible financing structures
  • Drafting, review, and negotiation of deal documents
  • Closings, cap table discipline, and post-financing governance
02

General Corporate & Regulatory Compliance

We support formation, governance, commercial contracting, internal controls, and day-to-day regulatory compliance as companies scale.

  • Entity formation, restructuring, and corporate governance
  • Commercial agreements, equity incentives, and internal policies
  • Operational compliance and cross-border business support
03

Securities Law & Capital Markets

We handle offerings, disclosure, listing-rule matters, ongoing reporting, and other capital-markets work for public and pre-public companies.

  • IPOs, follow-ons, PIPEs, and De-SPAC transactions
  • Exchange Act reporting and listed-company compliance
  • Board, investor, and disclosure-related support
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Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

We advise on acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, and asset transactions from structuring and diligence through signing and closing.

  • Buy-side, sell-side, and joint venture transactions
  • Legal diligence, deal documents, and risk allocation
  • Process management from signing to closing
05

Fund Formation

We advise sponsors and investment platforms on fund structuring, launch documents, regulatory issues, and fundraising support.

  • Fund structuring and sponsor governance
  • Offering documents, side letters, and compliance materials
  • Feeder funds, SPVs, and cross-border fundraising arrangements
06

Real Estate

We support commercial real estate acquisitions and sales, development, leasing, financing, and project-level risk management.

  • Acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, and project documents
  • Development, financing, and asset-operation support
  • Diligence, title issues, and transaction risk control
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Intellectual Property

We advise on brands, patents, licensing, IP diligence, and technology commercialization in both transactional and growth contexts.

  • Trademark, patent, and portfolio strategy
  • Licensing, technology transfer, and commercialization
  • IP diligence and infringement-risk analysis for deals
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Tax Controversy

We help clients respond to tax investigations, controversy matters, and cross-border transaction issues that require coordinated tax risk handling.

  • Tax audit and controversy support
  • Tax-risk identification in cross-border structures
  • Coordination with tax advisors and business teams
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AI & Cutting-Edge Technologies

We advise on transactions, governance, and compliance questions involving AI, data, platform technology, and frontier business models.

  • AI governance, data use, and product compliance
  • Platform terms, technology commercialization, and partnerships
  • Financing, strategic transactions, and regulatory analysis

How MagStone works

Scope

We define scope, pressure points, and priorities early so legal work stays proportional and decision-useful.

Execution

We build momentum through ownership, pacing, and deliverables that move the matter forward in practice.

Coordination

In cross-border matters, we coordinate across business teams, counterparties, and other advisors to reduce friction.