Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Firm(s) selected for this role will assist the City Attorney’s Office as requested with reviewing, negotiating, and acquiring for the City a small book publishing company with a backlist of 79 titles and 54,857 volumes, including its intellectual property assets, and in providing general advice as requested pertaining to same. The firm selected will need to have demonstrated expertise in the field of publishing in order to assess through due diligence the existing contractual obligations with distributors, order fulfillment, royalties management, book design, printing, and promotion, as well as any employment obligations. In addition, the film selected will need to have demonstrated expertise in the field of corporate law to assess the structure of the transaction, i.e. whether stock or assets will be transferred, current assets and liabilities, and provide due diligence and document preparation for the acquisition.