Our Business Law Section attorneys are recognized experts in providing practical solutions to the day-to-day issues confronting closely held businesses, family enterprises and entrepreneurial clients. From start up to fully mature businesses, Abbott Nicholson is dedicated to assisting its clients to achieve both their immediate and long term business objectives. The Business and Corporate Law Section is the core practice group within Abbott Nicholson serving a wide range of business clients diversified in industries and professions from automotive suppliers to professional corporations. The business law needs of our clients are complex, often requiring extensive analysis and always dependent on sound legal judgment. Our services are delivered promptly with accuracy and cost effectiveness.
Over the past three decades, the Business and Corporate Law Section has become the valued and trusted counselors of our vast client base. Our driving principle is to design and implement solutions to meet our client goals with personal attention adhering to the highest standards of legal competence and integrity. Our cost effective counsel is always provided on a timely basis. Our clients’ most complex legal needs become our responsibility as we bring creative solutions to the most complex issues.
We specialize in all forms of business organization: corporate, limited liability company, partnership (both general and limited), sole proprietorship and joint venture.
Our corporate practice attorneys provide comprehensive counsel and advice in the following areas:
• Business formation, start up, choice of entity and structure
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Joint ventures
• Business expansion, financing and capitalization
• Corporate agreements
• Corporate disputes
• Succession planning and implementation
• Stockholder relations
• Ownership control
• Employee benefits
• Executive compensation
• Corporate governance
• Professional corporations with their special rules and unique tax requirements
• Creditor rights and bankruptcy
• Reorganization
• Corporate finance
• Tax planning
• Business litigation
• Licensure issues
• Alternative dispute resolution
Members of the Business and Corporate Law Section of Abbott Nicholson are:
• John R. Nicholson
• Thomas R. Quilter III
• John F. Youngblood
• Mary P. Nelson, Chairperson
• Daniel G. Kielczewski
• Sean A. Fraser
• George M. Malis
• Thomas C. Shumaker
Over the years, our corporate and merger and acquisition attorneys have provided counsel and advice in a wide variety of business transactions. Our goal is to provide you with the expertise you need to accomplish your business objectives in a complex and constantly changing business world. We have assisted a multitude of entities in numerous industries in their business transactions and development. Some examples are as follows:
• Negotiated and completed cable refranchising agreements from five municipalities and concluded the sale of such cable company to Comcast Corporation for a price in excess of $31 million.
• Sale of a manufacturer of interior doors with manufacturing facilities in Vermont and Michigan to a competitor
• Acquisition by a regional wholesale/retail tire and automotive parts distributor of a competing retail outlet chain, including eighteen (18) retail stores and two (2) wholesale houses
• Acquisition of a data storage business, including negotiation of purchase price allocation between customer list, non-competition agreement, employment agreements and fixed assets.
• Stock exchange transactions between insurance agencies and registered chartered banks
• Acquisition by an international architectural and engineering firm of five architectural firms in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, California, Manilla, Philippines and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Sale of Thermafiber Inc., (a Cerberus holding) producer of mineral wool insulation products for commercial and industrial applications to group led by Altus Capital Partners
• Sale of major regional dairy distributor to Dean Foods
• Venture capital investment by Bank of Montreal in client internet company offering private banking, shopping and communications in a secure network for high net worth families
• Acquisition of EDS automotive e-catalog business by Australian client company
• Sale of majority stock interests of numerous shareholders in a national automotive media events firm, including negotiation, documentation and structuring of financing and collateral matters
