Mel Ziontz is Of Counsel in the firm's Los Angeles Office. Mr. Ziontz' is a transactional lawyer with experience representing a broad spectrum of businesses. His practice emphasizes mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations and financings of private and publicly held companies, and general business contracts and advice. Mr. Ziontz has expertise in a substantial range of legal and business issues in serving as outside counsel to many companies, including corporate, partnership and limited liability company law, securities law, SEC compliance, employment and executive compensation matters. He has handled many financings, securities offerings, mergers, acquisitions and sales in the following industries: entertainment, media, video games, music, food services, consumer goods retailing, telemarketing, cycling, electronic commerce, internet-based technology, aerospace fittings, travel services, automated traffic control, market research, hand tools, interactive media, real estate development, sports franchises, theme parks and government concessions, toys, publishing, health and bio-mechanical products and services, material sciences and new technologies.

• Equity financing of media software company 
  
• Structuring of start-up investment advisor and portfolio manager
• Structuring and financing of Internet-based businesses
• Counsel to Special Committee of Board in connection with unsolicited buyout offer
• Sale of privately-held market research and survey company to public company
• Sale of regional chain of cycling merchandise retailer
• Leveraged recapitalizations of a major provider of call center systems and of a leading regional retailer
• Sale of an aerospace fittings company
• Negotiations of the sale of a major travel company
• General representation of the U.S. division of a foreign manufacturer of traffic control systems and sale of such company