Since 1969, Watt's practice has been concentrated in business development and finance, including handling public offerings and issuance of equity and debt securities in the public and private capital markets. 

Watt provides lead counsel services in mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies, and in handling private equity and venture capital-related financings involved in business formation and development. He has provided corporate governance, securities and M&A guidance to companies in the banking, information technology, healthcare, food safety and biotechnology sectors, and he has represented issuers, underwriters and institutional placement agents in many other fields, including medical technology, mobile software, power electronics, other manufacturing industries and specialty insurance fields. 

In the life sciences industry, Watt’s practice has included representation of emerging technology companies as well as institutional private equity funding sources in fields such as cancer diagnostics, osteoporosis and other fields.

Recent Representative Transactions:

• Represent mobile software platform company in multiple equity capital raises and in M&A activities
• Represent publicly held regional bank holding company in its multi-year acquisition program and in its public capital markets offerings and securities regulatory reporting activities
• Represent UK-based global industrial company in acquisition of U.S.-based extruded plastic industrial parts manufacturer also having Mexican manufacturing and UK-located sales operations
• Represent South American commercial baking company having operations in multiple Latin American countries in its acquisition of a U.S-based non-meat, non-GMO high end canine treat bakery