About International Business Law Attorneys Network (IBLAN)
IBLAN is a premier network of independent law firms.
IBLAN is a premier network of independent law firms encouraged by Global Capital Ventures Holdings to protect it's clients for remediation of highly leveraged loans using convertible debt to Over the Counter Companies and to do transactions, and litigation for its clients and the business communities in its states of operation. Founded in 2019, IBLAN was the first and continues to be one of the strongest legal networks in the field of toxic debt remediation. We have 8 members firms throughout the United States & Canada. Our 8 U.S. firms maintain offices in 8 of the largest metropolitan areas where most litigation of this type is filed by lenders. The association is the successor to the firm of Ellsworth Young LLP founded in 2015 which specialized in these kinds of cases.
Mission
The IBLAN mission is to use relationships to provide high quality, cost-efficient legal services wherever our clients need them. The IBLAN model enables our members to use their local expertise to deliver highly effective legal solutions, often drawing upon the collective wisdom and experience of other member firms. IBLAN clients benefit from a geographically comprehensive network of exceptional law firms and accomplished trial and business counsel. Our member firms meet high standards to be part of the IBLAN network and are well respected by their peers in the legal and business community.
The IBLAN Advantage
While IBLAN is an association of independent law firms, our members establish broad, deep relationships with each other by:
· Collaborating on client matters
· Attending IBLAN & CLE seminars by conference calls and in person
· Working together to author compendia from other cases
As a result, referrals among IBLAN firms represent partnerships between trusted friends and colleagues rather than one-off engagements. Similarly, our many events provide corporate counsel with the opportunity to network among IBLAN lawyers and their peer in-house lawyers.
Other Practice Areas
IBLAN attorneys have expertise across a full array of legal practice areas. As part of our Practice Groups, the attorneys intend to work together to deliver excellent educational programming, including seminars, webinars, client site mini-seminars, reference materials, speakers, newsletters, and more.
Why Choose an IBLAN Member?
Global Accessibility
Immediate Access to a Comprehensive Network
Hiring outside counsel in unfamiliar jurisdictions can be a time-consuming process, fraught with risk. But IBLAN provides our clients with immediate access to a comprehensive network of law firms, covering 8 in the U.S. metropolitan areas where this type of litigation is usually filed and soon internationally.
High Quality RepresentationOutstanding Member Law Firms: IBLAN law firms are among the best–in-class, garnering local, state, and recognition and awards. Great care is taken in the selection process, with heavy reliance placed upon input from clients, other firms, and professional organizations.
Experienced and Expert Trial Counsel: IBLAN was originally formed as a small network of trial counsel. Our firms are composed of lawyers who have tried hundreds of cases, often serving as state or federal prosecutors, district attorneys, public defenders, or administrative agency counsel.
And Yet More than Just Trial Lawyers: In addition to trial work, most of our member firms have developed broad-based general practices. IBLAN recruits
member firms with wide-ranging subject matter expertise.
Your Committed Partners
Relationships that Drive Results
IBLAN lawyers spend quality time with their clients, getting to know the people, and their businesses. IBLAN lawyers also forge strong bonds with fellow network attorneys worldwide. These relationships produce a unique commitment to provide the best in legal services.
Commitment Fostered by Exclusivity: IBLAN memberships are exclusive. Only one law firm represents our network in each metropolitan area, state, or country. Moreover, in the United States, member firms may not join any other legal network. These requirements help nurture cooperation and mutual assistance among our members.
Efficient & Effective
Cost-Effective Services
Our member firms fully understand that today’s in-house counsel is under increasing pressure to contain outside counsel fees, and we strive to provide clients with cost-effective legal services. IBLAN firms are generally managed in a conservative style, eschewing costly expansions and speculative investments. This cost-conscious approach extends to clients' fee arrangements as well.
Willingness to Start Small: IBLAN members recognize that client relationships take time to build and frequently begin with minor engagements. Our firms are happy to “start small,” investing the time and resources necessary to build client confidence and satisfaction.
Resource Pooling
By selecting one of the network’s law firms, clients are retaining the services of many other excellent law firms throughout the U.S. and around the world. IBLAN firms assist fellow members on a regular basis, exchanging non-privileged legal research, consulting on trial and transaction strategies, providing advice on judges and expert witnesses, and otherwise helping fellow member firms to better serve IBLAN clients. Each year our numerous seminars and other meetings facilitate the pooling of knowledge and resources among our member firms.
With so many compelling reasons, it’s easy to see why our clients typically use many members from within the IBLAN network.
Practice Areas
IBLAN attorney’s practice in virtually every subject matter area.
The IBLAN “Practice Groups” are the anchor of the organization. Our Practice Groups enable our attorneys from across the United States to leverage their collective expertise to better serve their clients. These Practice Groups produce a wide range of best-in-class educational programs and materials.
The Practice Groups currently supported are:
· Business Litigation
· Construction
· Corporate Transactions
· Hospitality & Retail
· Insurance
· Inter Law
· Labor & Employment
· Product Liability & Complex Torts
In addition, IBLAN has a significant number of member firms with deep legal expertise
· Antitrust & Trade Regulation
· Bankruptcy
· Environmental Law
· Estate Planning & Wealth Transfer
· Foreign Investment
· Government Relations, Lobbying, & Administrative Law
· Health Care
· Immigration-EB-5
· Intellectual Property & Information Technology
· Oil, Gas, & Energy
· Real Estate
· Tax
· Venture Capital & Finance
· Toxic Debt Remediation
Recommendations for Legal Services
Global Capital Ventures Holdings (www.gcvh.co) are consultants to the firms in IBLAN, provided strategy and advice that allowed all of GCVH microcap client companies to eliminate or reduce the amount of “ Toxic Debt” or” Death Spiral Financing” they were dealing with. In addition GCVH advises on business strategies. This is explained below. GCVH will provide references from C.E.O.’s they represented who will substantiate these claims. In those case the share price of the companies that followed GCVH advice increased in value and or the companies became healthier. See letters of reference and press releases in NEWS AND PRESS .
Global handles a wide range of matters that require strategizing with and recommending to several highly skilled law firms and lawyers involving banking and creditors’ rights, debtors’ rights, public and private corporations, business torts, contractual, corporate, intellectual property, libel, media, professional liability, real estate, securities, white collar criminal defense. The firms it introduces to its clients have represented large commercial enterprises including several Fortune 500 companies, investment banking companies, charitable trusts and corporations, political parties, major internet television networks, publicly traded companies, small business enterprises and individuals.
Clients turn to Global to organize small entrepreneurial businesses; to maneuver through a sale of assets; or to complete large acquisitions. Global offers business advice as an alternative to legal advice and representation. The common element in the representation of all our clients is the importance placed on understanding each individual client’s business and business objectives. Accordingly, Global can provide valuable business counseling as well at an effective cost and Global can guide the lawyers it recommends taking a common-sense business approach rather than a strictly legal based approach.
Areas of Expertise
Selection of Business Entity and State of Organization
Convertible Financing
Death spiral financing
Death spiral financing is a process where convertible financing used to fund primarily small cap companies can be used against it in the marketplace to cause the company’s stock to fall dramatically and can lead to the company’s ultimate failure.
Many small companies rely on selling convertible debt to large private investors to fund their operations and growth. This convertible debt, often convertible preferred stock or convertible debentures, can be converted to the common stock of the issuing company often at steep discounts to the market value of the common stock.
Under the typical “death spiral” scenario the holder of the convertible debt initially shorts the issuer’s common stock which often causes the stock price to decline at which time the debt holder converts some of the convertible debt to common shares with which he then covers his short position. The debt holder continues to sell short and cover with converted stock which along with selling by other shareholders alarmed by the falling price continually weakens the share price making the shares unattractive to new investors and can severely limit the company’s ability to obtain new financing if the need arises.
An important characteristic of this kind of convertible debt is that it often carries conditions like a quarterly or semi-annual reset of the conversion price to keep the conversion price more or less close to the actual stock price. But a lower conversion price also increases the number of shares that a bond holder gets in exchange for one bond, increasing the dilution of existing shareholders. A lower price reset can also force investors that have set up a long CB/short stock position to sell more stock (“adjust the delta”), creating a vicious cycle, hence the nickname death spiral.
The companies that are willing to agree to financing on these terms are often desperate and could not obtain funding through any other means. The terms, though viewed by some as onerous, give the lender a potential way to recover their debt regardless of what happens to the shares of the company. The lender would have a potentially greater gain if the shares were to increase in value but if they do decrease in value, there is some protection. If this were not the case, they would probably not be willing to lend the money given the poor risk profiles of the companies interested in this type of financing.
Toxic Loan Relief
The firms focus in addition to obtaining fair and equitable financing for its clients, is in toxic loan relief. Companies can contact our company for either recommendation to legal firms for representation in the state of their incorporation or in a state where they do business, or a state where they are being sued by toxic loan lenders. If you are such a company contact the company at the Las Vegas Office and discuss with one of our representatives the possible retention of Global or a law firm to represent your company and protect your rights. The companies should be a small cap public company, who has borrowed money on a convertible debt basis and wishes to be informed of their rights, prior to or after receipt of conversion notices from the lenders. There will be no fee for the first consultation, but no representation will be assumed until a formal written retainer letter is entered into executed by one of our board of advisors and or a legal retention agreement signed by one of our recommended law firms or attorneys.
Clients
The company represents or represented clients located in all the states of the United States, Canada, South America, Mexico, South Africa, Europe and Asia. Many of the firm’s corporate clients are based all over the world.
Following is a representative group of the current and past public and private corporate clients:
Textmunication Holdings Inc. (TXHD)
Honest Owl Works Co.
Premier Biomedical Inc {BEBI)
Textmunications Inc
Players Network Inc. (PNTV)
Green Leaf Farms Holdings Inc.
Propanc Health Group Corporation (PPCH)
TecVegas Inc.
WesternWorld Inc.
Bank of Beverly Hills
John Stuart Productions
William Levenson
Antony Newley
Total Experience Records
Bumbles Club
RealVegas TV
WeedTV
Rocky Mountain Industries
Northstar Minerals Inc.
Interstate Oil Co.
Cyclo Inter Chemicals Inc.
Chemical Corporation
Veratron
Vertical Acceleration Inc.
CoVest Financial Services Inc.
Nature’s Plus Inc.
Canaveral Capital Corporation
Lidworks and Brand Acceleration
Creative Management Partners
IBLAN is a premier network of independent law firms.
IBLAN is a premier network of independent law firms encouraged by Global Capital Ventures Holdings to protect it's clients for remediation of highly leveraged loans using convertible debt to Over the Counter Companies and to do transactions, and litigation for its clients and the business communities in its states of operation. Founded in 2019, IBLAN was the first and continues to be one of the strongest legal networks in the field of toxic debt remediation. We have 8 members firms throughout the United States & Canada. Our 8 U.S. firms maintain offices in 8 of the largest metropolitan areas where most litigation of this type is filed by lenders. The association is the successor to the firm of Ellsworth Young LLP founded in 2015 which specialized in these kinds of cases.
Mission
The IBLAN mission is to use relationships to provide high quality, cost-efficient legal services wherever our clients need them. The IBLAN model enables our members to use their local expertise to deliver highly effective legal solutions, often drawing upon the collective wisdom and experience of other member firms. IBLAN clients benefit from a geographically comprehensive network of exceptional law firms and accomplished trial and business counsel. Our member firms meet high standards to be part of the IBLAN network and are well respected by their peers in the legal and business community.
The IBLAN Advantage
While IBLAN is an association of independent law firms, our members establish broad, deep relationships with each other by:
· Collaborating on client matters
· Attending IBLAN & CLE seminars by conference calls and in person
· Working together to author compendia from other cases
As a result, referrals among IBLAN firms represent partnerships between trusted friends and colleagues rather than one-off engagements. Similarly, our many events provide corporate counsel with the opportunity to network among IBLAN lawyers and their peer in-house lawyers.
Other Practice Areas
IBLAN attorneys have expertise across a full array of legal practice areas. As part of our Practice Groups, the attorneys intend to work together to deliver excellent educational programming, including seminars, webinars, client site mini-seminars, reference materials, speakers, newsletters, and more.
Why Choose an IBLAN Member?
Global Accessibility
Immediate Access to a Comprehensive Network
Hiring outside counsel in unfamiliar jurisdictions can be a time-consuming process, fraught with risk. But IBLAN provides our clients with immediate access to a comprehensive network of law firms, covering 8 in the U.S. metropolitan areas where this type of litigation is usually filed and soon internationally.
High Quality RepresentationOutstanding Member Law Firms: IBLAN law firms are among the best–in-class, garnering local, state, and recognition and awards. Great care is taken in the selection process, with heavy reliance placed upon input from clients, other firms, and professional organizations.
Experienced and Expert Trial Counsel: IBLAN was originally formed as a small network of trial counsel. Our firms are composed of lawyers who have tried hundreds of cases, often serving as state or federal prosecutors, district attorneys, public defenders, or administrative agency counsel.
And Yet More than Just Trial Lawyers: In addition to trial work, most of our member firms have developed broad-based general practices. IBLAN recruits
member firms with wide-ranging subject matter expertise.
Your Committed Partners
Relationships that Drive Results
IBLAN lawyers spend quality time with their clients, getting to know the people, and their businesses. IBLAN lawyers also forge strong bonds with fellow network attorneys worldwide. These relationships produce a unique commitment to provide the best in legal services.
Commitment Fostered by Exclusivity: IBLAN memberships are exclusive. Only one law firm represents our network in each metropolitan area, state, or country. Moreover, in the United States, member firms may not join any other legal network. These requirements help nurture cooperation and mutual assistance among our members.
Efficient & Effective
Cost-Effective Services
Our member firms fully understand that today’s in-house counsel is under increasing pressure to contain outside counsel fees, and we strive to provide clients with cost-effective legal services. IBLAN firms are generally managed in a conservative style, eschewing costly expansions and speculative investments. This cost-conscious approach extends to clients' fee arrangements as well.
Willingness to Start Small: IBLAN members recognize that client relationships take time to build and frequently begin with minor engagements. Our firms are happy to “start small,” investing the time and resources necessary to build client confidence and satisfaction.
Resource Pooling
By selecting one of the network’s law firms, clients are retaining the services of many other excellent law firms throughout the U.S. and around the world. IBLAN firms assist fellow members on a regular basis, exchanging non-privileged legal research, consulting on trial and transaction strategies, providing advice on judges and expert witnesses, and otherwise helping fellow member firms to better serve IBLAN clients. Each year our numerous seminars and other meetings facilitate the pooling of knowledge and resources among our member firms.
With so many compelling reasons, it’s easy to see why our clients typically use many members from within the IBLAN network.
Practice Areas
IBLAN attorney’s practice in virtually every subject matter area.
The IBLAN “Practice Groups” are the anchor of the organization. Our Practice Groups enable our attorneys from across the United States to leverage their collective expertise to better serve their clients. These Practice Groups produce a wide range of best-in-class educational programs and materials.
The Practice Groups currently supported are:
· Business Litigation
· Construction
· Corporate Transactions
· Hospitality & Retail
· Insurance
· Inter Law
· Labor & Employment
· Product Liability & Complex Torts
In addition, IBLAN has a significant number of member firms with deep legal expertise
· Antitrust & Trade Regulation
· Bankruptcy
· Environmental Law
· Estate Planning & Wealth Transfer
· Foreign Investment
· Government Relations, Lobbying, & Administrative Law
· Health Care
· Immigration-EB-5
· Intellectual Property & Information Technology
· Oil, Gas, & Energy
· Real Estate
· Tax
· Venture Capital & Finance
· Toxic Debt Remediation
Recommendations for Legal Services
Global Capital Ventures Holdings (www.gcvh.co) are consultants to the firms in IBLAN, provided strategy and advice that allowed all of GCVH microcap client companies to eliminate or reduce the amount of “ Toxic Debt” or” Death Spiral Financing” they were dealing with. In addition GCVH advises on business strategies. This is explained below. GCVH will provide references from C.E.O.’s they represented who will substantiate these claims. In those case the share price of the companies that followed GCVH advice increased in value and or the companies became healthier. See letters of reference and press releases in NEWS AND PRESS .
Global handles a wide range of matters that require strategizing with and recommending to several highly skilled law firms and lawyers involving banking and creditors’ rights, debtors’ rights, public and private corporations, business torts, contractual, corporate, intellectual property, libel, media, professional liability, real estate, securities, white collar criminal defense. The firms it introduces to its clients have represented large commercial enterprises including several Fortune 500 companies, investment banking companies, charitable trusts and corporations, political parties, major internet television networks, publicly traded companies, small business enterprises and individuals.
Clients turn to Global to organize small entrepreneurial businesses; to maneuver through a sale of assets; or to complete large acquisitions. Global offers business advice as an alternative to legal advice and representation. The common element in the representation of all our clients is the importance placed on understanding each individual client’s business and business objectives. Accordingly, Global can provide valuable business counseling as well at an effective cost and Global can guide the lawyers it recommends taking a common-sense business approach rather than a strictly legal based approach.
Areas of Expertise
Selection of Business Entity and State of Organization
- Selection of the appropriate law firm and lawyers
- Entity Formation
- Corporate Charter and Bylaw Issues
- Shareholder and Voting Agreements
- Capitalization Structure Issues
- Employment Agreements, Consulting Agreements and Noncompetition Agreements
- Compliance with Corporate, Partnership, LLC and Trust Law
- Conduct of Board of Director and Shareholder Meetings
- Corporate Governance Issues
- Contract and Licensing Disputes
- Real Estate Contract and Development Disputes
- Asset Protection
- Lender Liability Claims
- Commercial Construction Claims
- Business Torts, including Disputes Over Competition and Fraud Claims
- Toxic debt remediation
Convertible Financing
Death spiral financing
Death spiral financing is a process where convertible financing used to fund primarily small cap companies can be used against it in the marketplace to cause the company’s stock to fall dramatically and can lead to the company’s ultimate failure.
Many small companies rely on selling convertible debt to large private investors to fund their operations and growth. This convertible debt, often convertible preferred stock or convertible debentures, can be converted to the common stock of the issuing company often at steep discounts to the market value of the common stock.
Under the typical “death spiral” scenario the holder of the convertible debt initially shorts the issuer’s common stock which often causes the stock price to decline at which time the debt holder converts some of the convertible debt to common shares with which he then covers his short position. The debt holder continues to sell short and cover with converted stock which along with selling by other shareholders alarmed by the falling price continually weakens the share price making the shares unattractive to new investors and can severely limit the company’s ability to obtain new financing if the need arises.
An important characteristic of this kind of convertible debt is that it often carries conditions like a quarterly or semi-annual reset of the conversion price to keep the conversion price more or less close to the actual stock price. But a lower conversion price also increases the number of shares that a bond holder gets in exchange for one bond, increasing the dilution of existing shareholders. A lower price reset can also force investors that have set up a long CB/short stock position to sell more stock (“adjust the delta”), creating a vicious cycle, hence the nickname death spiral.
The companies that are willing to agree to financing on these terms are often desperate and could not obtain funding through any other means. The terms, though viewed by some as onerous, give the lender a potential way to recover their debt regardless of what happens to the shares of the company. The lender would have a potentially greater gain if the shares were to increase in value but if they do decrease in value, there is some protection. If this were not the case, they would probably not be willing to lend the money given the poor risk profiles of the companies interested in this type of financing.
Toxic Loan Relief
The firms focus in addition to obtaining fair and equitable financing for its clients, is in toxic loan relief. Companies can contact our company for either recommendation to legal firms for representation in the state of their incorporation or in a state where they do business, or a state where they are being sued by toxic loan lenders. If you are such a company contact the company at the Las Vegas Office and discuss with one of our representatives the possible retention of Global or a law firm to represent your company and protect your rights. The companies should be a small cap public company, who has borrowed money on a convertible debt basis and wishes to be informed of their rights, prior to or after receipt of conversion notices from the lenders. There will be no fee for the first consultation, but no representation will be assumed until a formal written retainer letter is entered into executed by one of our board of advisors and or a legal retention agreement signed by one of our recommended law firms or attorneys.
Clients
The company represents or represented clients located in all the states of the United States, Canada, South America, Mexico, South Africa, Europe and Asia. Many of the firm’s corporate clients are based all over the world.
Following is a representative group of the current and past public and private corporate clients:
Textmunication Holdings Inc. (TXHD)
Honest Owl Works Co.
Premier Biomedical Inc {BEBI)
Textmunications Inc
Players Network Inc. (PNTV)
Green Leaf Farms Holdings Inc.
Propanc Health Group Corporation (PPCH)
TecVegas Inc.
WesternWorld Inc.
Bank of Beverly Hills
John Stuart Productions
William Levenson
Antony Newley
Total Experience Records
Bumbles Club
RealVegas TV
WeedTV
Rocky Mountain Industries
Northstar Minerals Inc.
Interstate Oil Co.
Cyclo Inter Chemicals Inc.
Chemical Corporation
Veratron
Vertical Acceleration Inc.
CoVest Financial Services Inc.
Nature’s Plus Inc.
Canaveral Capital Corporation
Lidworks and Brand Acceleration
Creative Management Partners
