Business Transactional
The Business and Transactions Practice Area is dedicated to creating value for our clients through the design, implementation and maintenance of their relationships with third parties. Whether these relationships are with financial institutions, underwriters, regulatory agencies, partners, shareholders, customers, vendors, acquisition targets, business disposition buyers, landlords, developers, tenants or others; our goal is to maximize the value of each relationship and transaction for our client while working cooperatively with the other parties. We work closely with each of our clients to understand its business and how each relationship fits within the scope of, and enhances, that business. We believe that each client is unique and that our partnership with the client must be tailored to accommodate that uniqueness.
Collectively we have well over 200 years of experience in this practice area. This experience includes a substantial wealth of knowledge and expertise that translates into efficient, prompt service benefiting our clients.
Our corporate, securities and commercial practice includes service as general counsel to a number of small to mid-market privately and publicly owned businesses, providing advice and counsel in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, public offerings, institutional financings and securitizations, among many other transactions. We counsel entrepreneurs on the structures of their businesses, from initial organization all the way to dissolution or the dissociation of equity owners. We also counsel hedge fund managers, investment advisors and broker dealers in issues regarding registration and compliance with regulatory authorities.
Our tax practice provides sophisticated tax planning and analysis to our clients including, among other things, structuring transactions and relationships as well as defending our clients in federal and state tax court litigation. For our corporate clients, we have provided significant ERISA and other employee benefit plan advice and counsel.
Our real estate practice provides counsel on a wide variety of general real estate matters with a special emphasis on commercial real estate development, which involves the negotiation and implementation of all aspects of development projects, from land acquisition through construction, development and ultimate sale or lease of the project.
