Goldberg Segalla LLP’s Commercial Litigation and Corporate Practice Group is devoted to representing local, regional, national and international businesses, including Fortune 500 companies, and not-for-profit organizations and their owners, directors and officers, in all aspects of complex commercial disputes and business operations, contract negotiations and formation, mergers and acquisitions, entity formation, dissolution, reorganization, tax planning, owner and board relations, fiduciary obligations, agreements and disputes among owners, corporate governance, licensing and franchising, credit facilities, debtor/creditor relations, real estate holdings, environmental compliance, and all employment matters.

Our lawyers are experienced in both complex business transactions and commercial litigation, which enables us to efficiently assess and counsel businesses in their day-to-day operations. Our commercial trial attorneys have successfully litigated cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States. We have also represented businesses in negotiations and transactions throughout the United States and numerous foreign jurisdictions.

We are prepared to assist you with:

• Drafting and interpreting commercial agreements and resolving disputes with respect to licensing, construction, distribution, franchising, mergers, acquisitions, sales, divestitures and joint venture matters
• Debtor/creditor relations, including collection, insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings
• Commercial real estate holdings, including sales, purchases, leasing, financing, development, SEQRA, environmental compliance and liability, zoning and foreclosure actions
• Corporate governance, including advising boards of directors in connection with fiduciary obligations and advising shareholders, partners and owners in all aspects of shareholder, partner and owner agreements and disputes
• Not-for-profit and charitable laws and regulations, including formation, tax exempt status and financing
• Advising professional service firms, including physicians, medical groups, law firms, accounting firms, architects and surveyors in all aspects of their operations, professional licensing, operation agreements, owner and contractual disputes and dissolution
• Corporate and estate, tax planning, wealth and succession planning involving wills, estates, trusts and succession agreements
• Corporate transactions, involving structure, formation and financing business entities and expansion
•  Representation of lenders and borrowers in numerous aspects of business entity capitalization, financing and loan workouts

Please contact Chris Belter or Bruce Hoover for additional information.