MacElree Harvey's Business department acts as legal counsel to businesses, individuals, non-profit organizations and financial institutions. We partner with our clients and provide comprehensive services to address the full scope of issues that confront them. Our clients range in size - from small, local businesses to large corporations, banks and universities - and span a broad spectrum of business sectors, including:

We serve as trusted legal advisors through all phases of the business cycle, from start-up to succession or sale. Please click below to see detailed descriptions of some of our areas of concentration:

Sample representations:

• Represented a multi-national industrial company with acquisition of a division of a publicly held company.

• Represented an early stage environmental manufacturing company with venture capital convertible bridge loan financing.

• Represented three non-profit corporations that support state universities as the borrower in the issuance of approximately $243,000,000 in qualified 501(c)(3) bonds, issued for the purpose of constructing student housing facilities for the benefit of university students. Representation included the negotiation of bond, credit, real estate and construction agreements associated with the projects.
• Represented a regional developer in acquisition, financing, rezoning and development of 78-acre brownfield site.
• Represented a multi-national manufacturing company in establishment of IC-DISC as a tax planning mechanism.
• Represented the issuer of a letter of credit in a $27,000,000 public bond finance for the construction of a local YMCA.
• Represented a company within the mushroom industry in a joint venture with other companies relating to the production, distribution, and labeling of mushrooms and agricultural products.
• Represented a non-profit 501(c)(3) as the borrower and acted as tax counsel in a $3,500,000 tax exempt loan whose purpose was to expand the borrower's facilities in Chester County.
• Represented a regional corporation in a multi-million dollar land acquisition project and in the land development and approvals process.
• Represented a corporation in successful negotiation and workout with IRS for back employment taxes owed.
• Represented a bank as senior creditor of a company in the reorganization of the company's stock ownership and restructuring of the company's $10,000,000 collective working capital lines of credit and permanent loans.
• Represented a manufacturer/distributor in a national roll up of like companies to create a nationwide manufacturing and distribution chain of companies.
• Represented a family business with business and real estate succession, reorganization, financing and estate and tax planning.
• Represented a multi-national industrial company with negotiation and drafting of joint venture arrangement.