Making Law and Business Work Hand in Hand

Burns White’s Business Law Group understands that your business needs require the very best legal guidance. That’s why we thoroughly analyze each client’s individual situation and design unique programs customized to you and your business. Our team of experienced attorneys provides creative solutions that go far beyond traditional legal thinking. This philosophy allows us to provide not just legal advice and services, but real value to you and your business.

Representing Excellence through Creative Thinking

We recognize that every business is different, with its own specific challenges and requirements. To ensure that the services we provide meet your varied needs, we devote a team of lawyers and support personnel to each client, enabling us to match the talents of our personnel to your specific needs. This enables us to apply not just traditional, but “outside-the-box” type thinking to your business challenges, providing you with the best possible solutions.

A Firm Commitment to a “Clients First” Tradition

We enjoy a “clients first” tradition and work hard to achieve the best result for our clients in business and corporate transactions. Our Business Law Group pursues practical solutions that produce tangible and cost-effective results for clients that include Fortune 500 companies, emerging companies, and individuals in diverse areas of business.

We are especially well-positioned to assist our clients in the following areas:

Corporate and Business Transactions
Our goal is to represent our clients through every phase of business, corporate and transactional matters. Effective legal counseling and preventative law often discourage challenges to vital business transactions and decisions. Our attorneys often assist clients in negotiations, structure, safeguards and continuing business practices and policy.

We also assist clients through mergers and acquisitions, financings and reorganizations as well as joint ventures, asset purchases/divestitures, and private equity transactions.

Our business insolvency, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights practice involves all areas of business reorganizations, liquidations, and out-of-court workouts in an effort to help our clients achieve the best possible results.

Commercial Real Estate
Burns White’s commercial real estate practice includes representation of businesses, individuals, developers and financial institutions in commercial and construction matters, as well as negotiating and preparing loans, contracts and leases. The firm also concentrates on real estate related issues such as property development, partnerships and syndication, land use planning, zoning, commercial foreclosures, and landlord-tenant matters.

Financial Institutions
We represent leading financial institutions in commercial and secured lending in such key areas as loan documentation and commercial real estate loans, corporate transactions, capital market transactions and commercial financing, compliance policies and best practices, and regulatory and compliance matters relating to financial institutions.

Entertainment and Sports Management
Burns White attorneys pride themselves on providing highly personalized and discrete representation to our clients in the entertainment and sports industries. Our services cover a range of areas, including contract negotiation, sponsorships and joint ventures.

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