Corporate

Capabilities

Leech Tishman’s Corporate Practice Group serves both domestic and international companies, ranging from investor groups and Fortune Global 500 companies, to start-ups and growing small- and middle-market companies.

  • The Corporate Practice Group, the core of our firm, offers a full suite of legal services covering the entire business life cycle, from establishing a company to succession planning.
  • Our attorneys apply their knowledge of business practice, emerging trends, and common pitfalls to help companies make strategic decisions.
  • Our success in providing clients with legal and business advice has led to recognition by leading legal publications such as Martindale-Hubbell, Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers®, Leading Lawyers, and Worth magazines.
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To be successful, businesses today must adapt to global competition, navigate e-commerce, and satisfy changing customer expectations and government regulations. Our Corporate Practice attorneys cover this terrain on a daily basis, and can handle any business need from filing reports to managing complex international mergers or acquisitions. Clients who tap our experience and skills find they can devote more time to the profitability of their business.

Our attorneys have formed large energy investment funds. They have safeguarded the intellectual property of new tech companies to establish and maintain market position. They have helped enterprises in the life sciences and other fields with litigation, employment matters, tax issues, and executive compensation. When applying their knowledge to issues, whether they are local or international, our attorneys prevent problems down the road, confront issues as they arise, and work closely with clients to help them achieve their objectives.

Services

Our Corporate attorneys can provide focused business assessments based on your company’s needs, and have the skill and experience to assist clients with

  • Business formation and entity selection
  • Capital structuring and restructuring
  • Corporate governance, compliance and policy
  • Corporate Legal Audits
    • Corporate Organization
    • Employment
    • Finance and Transaction Planning
    • Intellectual Property
  • Commercial contracts and transactions
  • Employee benefits and executive compensation
  • Environmental regulation
  • Estates and trusts
  • Finance and financial institutions
  • Intellectual property (patents, trademarks)
  • International projects
  • Investment strategies and risk management
  • Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures
  • Private equity and venture capital investments
  • Public finance
  • Real estate
  • Securities issuance, reporting and compliance
  • Taxation

Clients

  • Construction companies
  • Software enterprises
  • Financial services companies
  • Educational and non-profit institutions
  • Health and life sciences companies
  • Energy firms (production, distribution, services)
  • Manufacturers
  • Technology firms (start-up to mature)
  • Hotel and entertainment companies
  • Food and retail establishments

Attorneys

Insights

Oct. 17, 2018  |  Client Alerts

Oregon Requires Arbitration and “Flow-Down” Provisions to Adhere to Ordinary Rules of Contract Interpretation

Oct. 15, 2018  |  Client Alerts

Sweeping Changes to Harassment Laws in California

Oct. 4, 2018

California Labor Commissioner Cites 3 Restaurants for Over $1MM

Oct. 1, 2018  |  Client Alerts

Governor Brown Approves Legislation Intended to Protect and Support Women, Children and Working Families Across California

In this session, the California Legislature sent to the Governor for approval 1,217 separate bills.…

Oct. 1, 2018  |  Client Alerts

California Labor Code Update: Employees Have Right to Receive a Copy of Their Pay Statements from Employer

On September 17, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that is declaratory of Section…

Oct. 1, 2018  |  Client Alerts

Walmart Not Liable for Sexual Assault of Employee on Co-employee

On September 27, 2018, a California court of appeal held an employer is not an…

Sep. 4, 2018  |  Client Alerts

Recent Immigration Issues Will Affect Employers, Employees, Professional Workers, and Business Owners

It seems that immigration, or a topic related to immigration, is mentioned in the media…

Aug. 28, 2018  |  Client Alerts

Transparency: A Legal Balance Between Planning, Communicating and Governing Your Business

TRANSPARENCY: 1. Clear see through piece of thin acetate used to project an image onto…

Aug. 24, 2018  |  Client Alerts

Legislature Passes Bill to Eliminate Arbitration for California Employment Claims (AB 3080)

On August 22, 2018, the California Legislature passed and sent to the Governor for signature…

Jul. 17, 2018  |  Client Alerts

California Threw Down A Privacy Law Gauntlet

On June 28, 2018, California imposed the strictest privacy law in the nation—the California Consumer Privacy…

Jul. 13, 2018  |  Client Alerts

Exercise Care When Rounding Up/Down Employee’s Time

Under California law, an employer is required to pay employees for all time they are…

Jul. 13, 2018  |  News

Pittsburgh Firm Leech Tishman Elects Forrest Passerin and Steven Taber as New Partners

PITTSBURGH, PA – July 13, 2018 – Leech Tishman is pleased to announce the election…

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