Team
Overview
Our team focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and equity and debt financing transactions. We handle all aspects of a deal, from initial strategic planning to closing, with senior-level commitment on every matter.
Our Competitive Advantage
Our business model adds value and reduces costs for our clients, as we leverage time-saving legal technologies, virtual/remote-working infrastructures, and our decentralized talent pool (comprised mainly of former “Big Law” attorneys). Unlike most other firms (that have expensive offices and high-salaried, underutilized employees), we do not have large fixed costs that must be passed down to our clients. Instead, we hand select the legal talent and other resources necessary for each client, on a project-specific basis, so that costs are fairly distributed and value is optimized for each client.
Barrett Hammond founded HBL in the year 2020 to provide clients with business-driven legal solutions. HBL offers a range of services to help clients succeed in today’s rapidly evolving business, legal and technological landscapes. These offerings include General Counsel services, as well as specialized practice areas, including: Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategic Joint Ventures, Commercial Transactions, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Labor and Employment, Data Privacy/Cyber Security, and Tax.
Overview. HBL’s General Counsel services are tailored for each client, with their long-term strategic planning and growth in mind. We are unique, in that we leverage our extensive Mergers & Acquisitions experience to help clients build companies maximally attractive to potential acquirers. Broadly speaking, we advise clients on designing business structures, building strategic relationships, protecting and commercializing intellectual property, reducing systemic risks, improving operational processes, and using data to identify nonintuitive opportunities and threats.
Our Competitive Advantage. Our business model adds value and reduces costs for our clients, as we leverage time-saving legal technologies, virtual/remote-working infrastructures, and our decentralized talent pool (comprised mainly of former “Big Law” attorneys). Unlike most other firms (that have expensive offices and high-salaried, underutilized employees), we do not have large fixed costs that must be passed down to our clients. Instead, we hand select the legal talent and other resources necessary for each client, on a project-specific basis, so that costs are fairly distributed and value is optimized for each client.
Barrett Hammond founded HBL in the year 2020 to provide clients with business-driven legal solutions. HBL offers a range of services to help clients succeed in today’s rapidly evolving business, legal and technological landscapes. These offerings include General Counsel services, as well as specialized practice areas, including: Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategic Joint Ventures, Commercial Transactions, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Labor and Employment, Data Privacy/Cyber Security, and Tax.
Education and Professional Background
- Mr. Hammond received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in 2015, and his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego in 2012. While in law school, Mr. Hammond earned the USC Business Law Certificate, won the Best Brief Award 2013-2014 in the Hale Moot Court Honors Program, and was a member of the USC Business Law Society. Mr. Hammond also worked as an extern at the United States Attorney’s Office of the Central District of California, Major Frauds and Public Corruption Department. Prior to founding HBL, Mr. Hammond was an attorney at major international law firms practicing corporate and intellectual property law.
- Admissions:
- California Bar
Representative Matters
Corporate M&A Transactions
- Represented the loan-out company of an acclaimed Hollywood writer and producer, in the company’s acquisition by Twentieth Century Fox Television for an approximate transaction value of $135,000,000.
- Represented the founder of a private entertainment company in (i) an equity financing of $120,000,000, and (ii) a “put” purchase agreement, in which the company valuation is approximately $600,000,000.
- Represented an independent practice association consisting of eighty-five physicians in its acquisition by Optum, a division of UnitedHealth Group. Approximate transaction value: $30,000,000.
- Represented an outpatient surgery center in its acquisition by Surgical Care Affiliates. Approximate transaction value: $10,000,000.
- Represented an outpatient healthcare facility in its acquisition by a private equity firm. Approximate transaction value: $30,000,000.
- Represented a medical spa company in its acquisition by a strategic investor. Approximate value: $1,200,000.
- Represented a private equity firm in a cross-border take-private acquisition. Approximate value: $4,500,000,000.
- Represented a private equity company in its acquisition of a private software company. Approximate transaction value: $50,000,000.
Joint Venture Transactions
- Represented a real estate development company in its joint venture with J.P. Morgan for the construction of a 300+ unit apartment building. Approximate transaction value: $120,000,000.
- Represented a Los Angeles-based media production company in a strategic joint venture with entertainment executives.
- Represented a private software company in its joint venture with partners in Australia and London.
Technology and Commercial Transactions
- Represented a multichannel video programming distributor (“MVPD”) in a licensing and distribution transaction with a professional sports league, with respect to the preloading of the sports league’s application on mobile devices, and the distribution of the sports league’s content across the MVPD’s platform.
- Represented an MVPD in various commercial transactions (including affiliation agreements and retransmission and consent agreements) with station groups, with respect to the distribution of programming across the MVPD’s platform.
- Represented a private software company in licensing and distributing its Unified Communications as a Service (“UCaaS”) offerings to its enterprise clients. The representation involved working collaboratively with the client’s sales and engineering teams to craft a user-friendly Master Services Agreement.
- Represented a healthcare technology company in a Licensing and Distribution Agreement with respect to the joint-development of intellectual property.
- Represented a healthcare technology company in an international joint venture transaction, in which the client contributed intellectual property to the joint venture in exchange for equity (and management rights) in the joint venture entity.
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