Practice Areas

Legal Services for Businesses

Retail, Office, Tract Residential, Multi-Family & Industrial Real Estate

Our clients include large and small regional and national developers, builders, owners, operators, managers, and lenders. Our services range from pre-acquision planning and land assembly through the land use approvals, purchase, environmental counseling, construction, lease-up, financing, and ongoing management of a project. We possess expertise in critically important local statutory and regulatory law, policies, and practices applicable to commercial and industrial real estate.

Purchases, Sales, Mergers & Reorganizations

Combining transactional and tax expertise, we have broad experience in structuring transactions among business entities. We have handled business transactions on the local, state, national, and international level, including the sale and acquisition of professional service organizations, auto dealerships, financial service companies, and manufacturing concerns.

Family-Held Businesses

We have special expertise in addressing the problems of succession in the family business, as well as control and equity ownership of the business. We assist owner-managers to maximize reasonable compensation, to overcome estate tax problems produced by growth, and to develop programs to retain the services of key employees. We work with families to establish mechanisms to shift control from one generation to another, and to handle control after the death of the head of the family.

Labor & Employment

We frequently work closely with key executive and management personnel to develop and implement policies and procedures designed to avoid problems altogether, and to minimize the exposure of the company when they do arise. We have substantial experience in handling wrongful termination claims and allegations of discrimination, harassment, and unfair treatment from both the employer and employee perspective. In addition, we assist businesses and individuals in understanding the increasingly complex laws that regulate employer-employee benefit plans. We are fully capable of litigating the issues that invariably arise in this important and emerging field of legal practice.