Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles (SA&M) is a full-service law firm with a wide range of practice areas, including mergers and acquisitions, public securities, venture capital and emerging growth, business litigation, media and entertainment, and intellectual property. SA&M attorneys assist clients with virtually every legal issue their businesses may face, working alongside both large and small business owners, helping them grow (both organically and through acquisition) and ultimately sell their companies.

Since its inception in 2002, SA&M’s mission statement has remained constant: to provide its clients with technically excellent legal services in a consistent, highly responsive, and service-oriented manner with an entrepreneurial and practical business advisory perspective.

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP was founded in 2002 by Joe Stubbs, Scott Alderton, Murray Markiles, John McIlvery and Greg Akselrud. Having built significant practices while together at Troop, Steuber, Pasich, Reddick and Tobey, LLP, a large regional law firm in Los Angeles, California, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, a large international firm, the founders were determined to build a better platform to adequately service their emerging growth and middle market client base. They formed Stubbs Alderton & Markiles to focus specifically on providing unparalleled corporate, securities, mergers & acquisitions and intellectual property law expertise in connection with the representation of emerging growth and technology companies, middle market public companies, large technology companies, investors, private equity funds, investment bankers and underwriters, and clients in the entertainment industry.

In November 2012, Stubbs Alderton & Markiles expanded its physical presence, opening a second office and its Preccelerator Program in Santa Monica, CA. The Preccelerator Program is an accelerator for early-stage startups offered to select companies that provides initial capital, sophisticated legal services, interim office space, mentorship, a targeted curriculum, investment strategy counseling and access to a strategic perks portfolio with the objective of helping startups grow their idea from concept to funded business. The Preccelerator provides these benefits to rotating cohorts of promising young startups.

PRACTICE AREAS

• Corporate & Business Matters
• Venture Capital & Emerging Growth
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• IP & Technology Transactions
• Internet, Digital Media & Entertainment
• Privacy & Data Security
• Public Securities
• Business Litigation
• Tax & Estate Planning
• Trademark & Brand Protection
• Consumer Products