True to its roots as a business law firm, Greenebaum supports one of the most respected Corporate and Commercial practices in the region. Our attorneys have extensive experience in all facets of business operations, governance and transactions. We provide counsel throughout the life of an enterprise – from formation through disposition - and every stage in between. We regularly advise Boards of Directors and management on corporate, shareholder and commercial matters. We serve clients in a wide range of manufacturing and service industries, from domestic start-up companies to multi-national corporations located throughout the United States and abroad.

Our Corporate and Commercial Teams include:

• Antitrust
• Banking and Financial Companies
• China
• Economic Development and Incentives
• Immigration
• International
• Japan
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Product Distribution and Franchising
• Real Estate Development and Construction
• Securities
• Technology
• Zoning and Land Use

The Mergers and Acquisitions Team works with buyers and sellers in virtually every industry. The Team’s work is significant, both in scope and reputation. Our attorneys are adept at negotiating and closing transactions, guiding clients through significant ownership changes and handling antitrust, tax, securities, intellectual property, regulatory and commercial aspects of purchases, sales and mergers.

Our Economic Development and Incentives Team has extensive experience negotiating state and local economic incentives for start-up and expansion, and advising on site selection and real estate acquisition, plant permitting and construction and tax and finance related matters.

Our Product Distribution and Franchising Team practice is equally sizeable, with heavy emphasis on sales and distribution agreements, purchase and supply contracts, regulatory advice to franchisors, and standard terms of sale. It is backed by an able Antitrust Team, providing counsel and trial assistance at all levels of the distribution chain. The Antitrust Team also regularly advises clients on antitrust compliance in acquisitions and other transactions, and on grand jury and other government investigatory matters.

The Securities Team is experienced in private offerings, venture capital, initial public offerings, public company compliance, including Sarbanes-Oxley matters, and advises a variety of private equity funds and other private, as well as public, companies raising debt and equity capital. It is comprised of experienced attorneys counseling clients on securities compliance, as well as administrative law and trial attorneys experienced in dealing with regulators and defending securities law cases.

Our Banking and Financial Companies Team and Technology Team focus on the unique regulatory aspects of these industries in mergers and acquisitions, corporate, securities and regulatory compliance matters.

The Real Estate Development and Construction Team is experienced in all phases of commercial real estate and real estate development. The Team also works closely with manufacturers and service providers in plant construction, office leasing and real estate acquisitions and dispositions.

The Zoning and Land Use Team attorneys have extensive experience in all aspects of land use law, including planning, zoning and subdivision law. The Team regularly prepares, files and secures approvals for zone changes, variances, conditional use permits, and historic preservation permits. Its members are also experienced in mediating with organized opposition, conducting mandatory public hearings and handling zoning-related hearings and litigation.

Our Corporate and Commercial attorneys routinely represent domestic and foreign clients in multi-national transactions. Our International, China and Japan Teams counsel U.S. businesses and individuals with operations and investments in Europe, Mexico, South America, Canada, Japan, China, Australia and other countries. They also counsel foreign owned companies with investments in the United States. The Group’s Immigration Team assists in business immigration matters, including immigrant and non-immigrant visas for executives and other employees of foreign owned clients doing business in the United States. Greenebaum augments its expansive international experience through membership in TerraLex®, an alliance of independent law firms strategically located in nearly 100 countries throughout the world. Through TerraLex®, Greenebaum has quick access to attorneys familiar with the laws of the many countries in which our clients do business.

Greenebaum’s client list is comprised of privately held corporations, public companies, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures and professional corporations.