Representative Experience

• Buying and selling businesses and operating divisions, including sectors such as manufacturing, distribution, technology, insurance agencies and other financial services and medical and other professional practices; business spin-offs and management buy-outs
• Structuring of new business ventures and investment vehicles, including choice of entity issues, relationships among investors, equity holders, managers and other participants; buy-sell arrangements; exit strategies; and counseling regarding shareholder disputes, corporate divorces and split-ups
• Real estate development projects, from contract through closing and beyond, including site acquisition, construction contracting, land use planning and regulatory compliance issues, construction and permanent financing, syndication and disposition
• Representing landlords and tenants in leasing commercial and industrial space, including build-to-suit facilities, ground leases and sale-leasebacks
• Appearances before municipal planning and zoning boards for site plan, subdivision and variance applications and ordinance interpretation
• Technology contracting and licensing, including strategies for safeguarding intellectual property interests
• Borrowing, lending and alternative and nonconventional financing techniques, including representation of banks, troubled businesses and program lenders
• Brownfields site initiatives, ISRA compliance and related environmental regulatory issues
• Counseling employers, employees, and independent contractors with respect to providing, securing and rewarding personal services, including employment contracts, consulting agreements, noncompete agreements, stock options and equity participation and buy-in arrangements