Our Business and Finance Group is widely recognized as one of the finest in the region. Whether you are executing a bet-the-company transaction or simply updating your standard employment forms, you will have the full attention of an experienced lawyer who asks the questions that haven’t occurred to you yet, who commands a whole spectrum of ways to engineer contract terms to address the issues specific to your business, and who knows how to negotiate – and how to close – to achieve your objectives.
The Firm’s attorneys have experience providing a broad range of services to a variety of clients in the business services industry, including in the following areas:
Our work with clients in this industry includes companies providing the following types of business services:
Our Business and Finance Group is widely recognized as one of the finest in the region. Whether you are executing a bet-the-company transaction or simply updating your standard employment forms, you will have the full attention of an experienced lawyer who asks the questions that haven’t occurred to you yet, who commands a whole spectrum of ways to engineer contract terms to address the issues specific to your business, and who knows how to negotiate – and how to close – to achieve your objectives.
The Firm’s attorneys have experience providing a broad range of services to a variety of clients in the business services industry, including in the following areas:
Kleinbard’s lawyers have been representing closely-held businesses since the Firm was formed more than 70 years ago, and they continue to be a significant part of our practice. We provide services to private and closely-held businesses, whether owned by a family, an individual, a small group of individuals, or a private equity firm. Our closely-held business clients range from pre-revenue, start-up companies, to businesses transitioning from their fifth to sixth generation of family ownership. Our clients in this sector seek our technical expertise as well as general business counseling, as demonstrated by the number of client advisory boards on which Kleinbard lawyers serve.
Our services to closely-held businesses include the following areas:
Examples of our recent successes for our closely-held business clients include:
Kleinbard has substantial experience in the construction industry, having represented owners, developers, design professionals, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and insurers. We have been involved with construction projects for hospitals, shopping centers, condominiums, government buildings, water treatment plants, major office buildings, schools, and factories. Our experience ranges from day-to-day advisory services and sophisticated transactional documentation, to dispute resolution and major multi-party litigation.
Our main services for this sector are listed below:
Examples of our attorneys’ recent client representations in the construction industry include:
Kleinbard has extensive experience representing consumer product and retail clients across a wide range of categories, such as:
Our services for such clients run the gamut of our practice areas and include the following areas:
Some of our recent matters for consumer product/retail clients include:
We provide comprehensive legal services to Pennsylvania public and private school entities, and have extensive experience as school solicitor throughout the Commonwealth. We offer a variety of services to education clients, including aiding with governance; discipline and due process; labor and employment; real estate; construction; and financing issues.
Our experience representing education clients includes:
Examples of our attorneys’ recent successes in representing schools include:
Kleinbard has a national practice in the electronic security alarm industry, which provides a broad range of legal services and business planning and consulting services.
The Firm has extensive experience in all facets of the industry, including:
Examples of recent successes in the security alarm industry include:
Kleinbard’s attorneys are well suited to provide sophisticated and practical counseling and transactional expertise to assist a young company from its formation through its various growth cycles. The Firm prides itself on the fact that entrepreneurial clients routinely return for advice as they launch additional ventures. We combine the technical expertise required to navigate complex transactions and regulatory regimes with the savvy advice start-up companies require before they have built a management infrastructure to support the venture. The founders of a new company need to focus their attention on the business — our job is to tailor your entity and capital structure to provide maximum flexibility and benefit as your business grows.
Our services for this sector include:
Examples of our recent representations of emerging businesses include:
Our attorneys have worked with virtually every type of client in the financial services industry, including banks, mezzanine lenders, commercial finance companies, insurance companies, securities firms, investment advisory firms, investment banks, and venture capital firms. We offer practical legal guidance based on our attorneys’ significant experience and access to a broad array of resources, including the support and experience of attorneys from our Business and Finance, Real Estate, and Litigation practice areas.
We provide our financial services industry clients legal services and counseling in the areas of:
Examples of our attorneys’ successes in representing clients involved in financial services include:
Kleinbard lawyers provide advice and counseling to a variety of clients in the food industry. The Firm’s extensive experience with general day-to-day commercial agreements, real estate, licensing transactions, and joint ventures and other collaborative arrangements gives our lawyers the background to provide food clients with the support they need for matters involving product development, manufacturing, marketing, storage and handling, and retailing.
Our services for this sector include the following areas:
Examples of recent matters handled for food clients include:
The Firm’s gaming attorneys have experience in numerous aspects of the industry, including representing casino owners and operators, gaming equipment suppliers and distributors, vendors, and other companies that invest in or provide services to the gaming industry.
Our work in this industry includes representing national and international clients seeking:
Examples of our attorneys’ recent successes in representing gaming clients include:
The Firm’s gaming attorneys have experience in numerous aspects of the industry, including representing casino owners and operators, gaming equipment suppliers and distributors, vendors, and other companies that invest in or provide services to the gaming industry.
Our work in this industry includes representing national and international clients seeking:
Examples of our attorneys’ recent successes in representing gaming clients include:
Kleinbard represents a diverse group of clients that provide a wide array of services to government and quasi-government departments and agencies. Led by our Government Relations Practice Group, Kleinbard attorneys advise clients on how to best position themselves to successfully do business in the public sector.
Navigating the public arena can be confusing and intimidating for the inexperienced client. Our attorneys assist clients by drawing on our sophisticated understanding of how government-elected and -appointed officials carry out their responsibilities. With many years of experience in both high-level government service and representing clients with government interests, we understand the nuances and subtleties that often distinguish those who succeed from those who do not.
Our government services clients range from professional service firms providing technical expertise, to development clients with proposals for public/private ventures, to nonprofit agencies looking to deliver social services. We have worked with clients to help create strategies for competitive bids and negotiated contracts. Kleinbard attorneys bring value to those with long-standing experience in the public arena, as well as to those who are exploring the public sector as a potential new market.
Examples of our attorneys’ recent engagements in the government services industry include:
Kleinbard’s lawyers represent clients in various sectors of the healthcare industry. The Firm’s depth and experience in its core practice areas of corporate transactions, business counseling, and commercial litigation have made it an intelligent choice for healthcare clients seeking advice for non-regulatory matters.
Our services for healthcare clients include:
Examples of recent matters handled for healthcare clients include:
The Firm’s attorneys have experience providing a broad range of services to a variety of clients in the hospitality and recreation industry. Included are services in the following areas:
Examples of our attorneys’ recent successes in representing clients in the hospitality and recreation industry include:
Our lawyers represent insurance companies and insurance brokers, policyholders, claims adjustors and administrators, and reinsurers on a variety of insurance and non-insurance issues.
Our experience in representing insurance industry clients includes providing a multitude of services. Kleinbard attorneys litigate commercial insurance coverage disputes in federal and state courts and arbitration venues throughout the United States. Our insurance coverage experience includes general liability, property, directors and officers, environmental, fidelity, and professional liability claims. We handle the defense of bad faith claims, disputes involving insurance brokers and agents (including contract disputes and errors and omissions claims), and litigation and counseling involving restrictive covenants and employment issues for insurance brokerage firms. Our business attorneys assist insurance industry clients with mergers and acquisitions of public adjustment companies; acquisitions of commercial insurance brokerage firms; debt and equity financings for commercial insurance brokerage firms; and the structuring of executive compensation arrangements. We also offer employment counseling and advice; risk management and errors and omissions counseling; and cyber-risk assessments, in addition to governmental relations and real estate services.
Our insurance industry representations have included:
Kleinbard has a long history of representing manufacturing clients in the Philadelphia region, dating back to the Firm’s inception in 1939. At that time, the Firm focused on the representation of the management of primarily family-owned, local manufacturing plants with unionized workforces in connection with union contracts.
Today Kleinbard maintains a robust roster of manufacturing clients and understands the issues and legal concerns they face at every stage of the business cycle, particularly in the current complex economic environment. We provide advice and counseling on a broad array of issues encountered by manufacturing entities, including those related to contracting, business operations, real estate, and taxation, and also offer litigation support as necessary.
We have represented, among others, manufacturers of water treatment equipment, gaming equipment, art and writing supplies, iron and steel, textiles, petroleum and fuel products, aerospace products, metal products, and testing equipment, as well as chemical companies.
Our successful efforts on behalf of manufacturers include:
Kleinbard has been representing middle market companies since its founding in the 1930s. Our middle market clientele ranges from fifth-generation, family-owned entities to manufacturing companies, and from private equity-backed healthcare information technology companies to publicly-held telecommunications providers. No matter the industry, Kleinbard’s attorneys provide strategic counseling and technical expertise to each of our middle market clients in order to help them achieve their goals.
Our services to middle market companies include the areas of:
Examples of our attorneys’ recent representations for our middle market clients include:
Kleinbard has experience representing a wide range of nonprofits, including universities, social service organizations, community development corporations, quasi-public corporations, religious institutions, charter schools, and workforce development agencies.
Given the diverse needs of our nonprofit clients, we bring legal skills from various practice areas to further their interests. From real estate transactions to governance matters, insurance coverage questions to employee claims, we work with nonprofit management and boards to protect and strengthen their organizations. We also assist nonprofits in structuring political activity and developing advocacy campaigns across government entities to navigate growth opportunities.
Many of our lawyers have substantial experience serving in leadership capacities for a diverse group of civic, religious, and community nonprofits. For example, Kleinbard attorneys have board experience on the Committee of 70, Philadelphia Gas Works, Bright Hope Baptist Church, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, the Hispanic Bar Association, and the Abramson Center. Our broad experience is invaluable in offering a perspective that informs our ability to provide relevant legal counsel and strategic guidance, with a keen eye towards helping organizations to achieve their mission.
Examples of successes we have achieved on behalf of our nonprofit clients include:
Kleinbard’s attorneys provide extensive transactional legal services to private equity investors and portfolio companies. We advise investors on the appropriate structure for their investments and represent those investors and portfolio companies in a variety of acquisition and sale transactions. In addition, we have also represented various committees of the board of directors of portfolio companies in conducting internal investigations.
Our experience includes handling the following matters:
Examples of our attorneys’ successes in private equity transactions include:
For over 70 years, Kleinbard has represented a broad range of professional services firms including law firms, accounting firms, insurance brokerage firms, investment advisory firms, architectural and engineering firms, and medical practices, as well as management, information technology, and healthcare consulting firms. We are often the firm of choice for the top professional services firms in our region and are proud to be the “lawyers’ lawyer” for our colleagues and peers.
We provide our professional services industry clients legal services and counseling in the areas of:
Examples of our attorneys’ successes in representing clients involved in professional services include:
Kleinbard’s real estate and finance attorneys are well-positioned to serve growing businesses and established institutions, with local and regional needs, including:
Our real estate and finance team prides ourselves on our problem-solving ability on behalf of our clients. The depth of our experience in the industry provides the required technical expertise and practical counseling essential to our clients’ business objectives.
Our services to the real estate industry include:
Examples of our attorneys’ successes in representing clients involved in the real estate industry include:
Kleinbard advises technology companies on the critical legal and business issues they face in the midst of sweeping technological change. We regularly represent clients in transactions and disputes relating to the procurement, sale, development, and protection of their products and services. Our attorneys also advise established companies wanting to develop new ways of doing business, as well as national and regional companies seeking to procure new information, healthcare, and communications technology products and services.
Our services to technology clients include the following areas:
Examples of our attorneys’ recent successes for our technology clients include:
In the rapidly changing telecommunications industry, our lawyers employ a multi-disciplinary approach to tackling the broad range of issues that face our clients. The Firm’s Business and Finance Department works with prominent telecommunications companies on their mergers and acquisitions, commercial banking and other financing transactions, real estate, and joint ventures, as well as on tax and corporate board advisory matters. In addition, Kleinbard’s Litigation Department routinely works with telecommunications clients on consumer class actions, dealer disputes, internal investigations, and employment, intellectual property and general commercial matters. The Firm has represented numerous companies within this industry, including SunCom Wireless, Global Tower Partners, T-Mobile, Triton Cellular, and Wireless Philadelphia.
Our experience with telecommunications clients includes representing national and international tower owners, wireless carriers, broadband providers, and municipalities in the categories below.
Examples of our attorneys’ successes in representing telecommunications clients include:
Kleinbard has worked extensively with clients in water-related industries, including companies that handle water, waste, and underground utilities and water treatment products and technologies. Our expansive experience in this industry allows us to offer our clients targeted approaches and solutions to the problems they face in their everyday business operations.
Our services to the water industry include the following areas:
Examples of recent representations for our water clients include: