How We Help

How We Help

Cross-reference our six practice groups against the industries we serve most to see where our experience lines up with yours.

Technology
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Real Estate & Hospitality
Financial Services
Nonprofit & Education
Family-Owned Business
Litigation
Corporate & M&A
Real Estate
IP
Employment
Trusts & Estates

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Litigation & Dispute Resolution × Technology
Defends and pursues technology companies in trade-secret, licensing, and platform-liability disputes, from pre-suit negotiation through trial and appeal.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution × Healthcare
Represents hospital systems and physician groups in payer disputes, credentialing challenges, and regulatory enforcement actions.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution × Manufacturing
Handles product-liability, supply-chain breach, and warranty disputes for manufacturers, including multidistrict and class-action defense.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution × Real Estate & Hospitality
Litigates lease disputes, construction-defect claims, and easement and boundary disputes for developers, owners, and hospitality operators.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution × Financial Services
Defends banks, lenders, and asset managers in regulatory examinations, consumer-finance class actions, and lender-liability claims.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution × Nonprofit & Education
Represents universities and nonprofit boards in governance disputes, Title IX proceedings, and donor-intent litigation.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution × Family-Owned Business
Resolves shareholder and partnership disputes, buy-sell disagreements, and succession conflicts before they fracture a family enterprise.
Corporate & M&A × Technology
Structures and closes acquisitions, venture financings, and strategic partnerships for software, hardware, and platform businesses.
Corporate & M&A × Healthcare
Guides physician-group consolidations, facility acquisitions, and joint ventures through Stark Law and regulatory considerations.
Corporate & M&A × Manufacturing
Advises on plant and division acquisitions, supply agreements, and cross-border joint ventures for industrial manufacturers.
Corporate & M&A × Real Estate & Hospitality
Structures hotel and hospitality portfolio acquisitions, management agreements, and joint-venture capital stacks.
Corporate & M&A × Financial Services
Counsels banks and specialty lenders on regulatory-capital-sensitive acquisitions, branch purchases, and fintech partnerships.
Corporate & M&A × Nonprofit & Education
Structures institutional mergers, affiliation agreements, and program acquisitions for universities and nonprofit systems.
Corporate & M&A × Family-Owned Business
Leads generational ownership transitions, recapitalizations, and third-party sales for closely held companies.
Real Estate × Technology
Negotiates headquarters leases, data-center site acquisitions, and build-to-suit development agreements for growing technology companies.
Real Estate × Healthcare
Structures medical-office-building acquisitions, ground leases, and outpatient facility developments for health systems.
Real Estate × Manufacturing
Handles industrial-site acquisitions, environmental due diligence, and incentive-linked development agreements for manufacturers.
Real Estate × Real Estate & Hospitality
Full-service acquisition, development, financing, and leasing counsel for owners, operators, and hospitality groups.
Real Estate × Financial Services
Represents lenders and borrowers in commercial real estate finance, mezzanine structures, and loan workouts.
Real Estate × Nonprofit & Education
Advises on campus expansion, ground leases, and public-private development partnerships for institutions.
Real Estate × Family-Owned Business
Counsels family-owned real estate portfolios on acquisitions, refinancing, and intergenerational transfer structuring.
Intellectual Property × Technology
Builds and defends patent, trade-secret, and open-source licensing portfolios for software and hardware innovators.
Intellectual Property × Healthcare
Protects medical-device and diagnostics patents and negotiates licensing agreements across the product lifecycle.
Intellectual Property × Manufacturing
Secures process and design patents and enforces trade-dress and trademark rights for manufactured goods.
Intellectual Property × Real Estate & Hospitality
Protects brand trademarks, proprietary design elements, and franchise licensing programs for hospitality brands.
Intellectual Property × Financial Services
Advises on fintech patent strategy, software licensing, and trademark protection for financial products and platforms.
Intellectual Property × Nonprofit & Education
Manages technology-transfer licensing, trademark protection, and copyright counsel for research institutions.
Intellectual Property × Family-Owned Business
Protects founder-built brand names, recipes, and proprietary processes as closely held companies scale.
Employment & Labor × Technology
Advises on equity compensation, noncompete and trade-secret protection, and workforce reductions for technology employers.
Employment & Labor × Healthcare
Counsels health systems on physician employment agreements, peer-review protections, and clinician wage-and-hour compliance.
Employment & Labor × Manufacturing
Handles union relations, OSHA compliance, and workforce-reduction planning for manufacturing employers.
Employment & Labor × Real Estate & Hospitality
Advises on tipped-wage compliance, seasonal staffing, and multi-property HR policy for hospitality operators.
Employment & Labor × Financial Services
Counsels on incentive-compensation clawbacks, FINRA-related employment disputes, and executive separation agreements.
Employment & Labor × Nonprofit & Education
Advises on faculty tenure disputes, Title IX employment matters, and volunteer/staff classification for institutions.
Employment & Labor × Family-Owned Business
Guides family enterprises through founder succession employment terms, non-family executive hiring, and fair-pay policy.
Trusts & Estates × Technology
Structures pre-liquidity estate planning and equity-gifting strategies for founders ahead of a sale or public offering.
Trusts & Estates × Healthcare
Plans asset protection and succession structures for physician-owned practices and their principals.
Trusts & Estates × Manufacturing
Designs ownership succession and estate-tax planning for principals of closely held manufacturing companies.
Trusts & Estates × Real Estate & Hospitality
Structures estate and gift planning around real property holdings, including qualified personal residence trusts.
Trusts & Estates × Financial Services
Advises high-net-worth principals of financial firms on trust structuring, philanthropic vehicles, and wealth transfer.
Trusts & Estates × Nonprofit & Education
Counsels donors and institutions on planned-giving vehicles, charitable trusts, and endowment gift agreements.
Trusts & Estates × Family-Owned Business
Designs multi-generational succession plans, family limited partnerships, and buy-sell agreements funded by trust structures.

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