JC and Matt at MacElree Harvey help with several contracts and disclosures we needed for our business. They took the time to educate us on changes to make us comfortable throughout the process. Cannot recommend enough.
Matthew C. Cooper
Mergers & Acquisitions
Our M&A attorneys have extensive experience representing both buyers and sellers in all aspects of M&A practice, including:
- Asset sales and purchases
- Stock sales and purchases
- Mergers and reorganizations
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances
Our clients turn to us for help with structuring transactions, negotiating letters of intent, conducting legal due diligence, preparing purchase and sale agreements, negotiating with opposing counsel, coordinating financing, addressing regulatory compliance, and closing transactions. Our capabilities are bolstered by the multi-disciplinary legal knowledge of numerous attorneys in the Firm.
We represent both privately-held businesses and public corporations in business acquisitions or consolidation transactions across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing and distribution, chemicals, food, transportation, warehousing and storage, technology, and professional services, among others.
MacElree attorneys provide start-to-finish assistance with completing M&A deals, using the Firm’s full resources for everything from due diligence to tax-efficient deal structures to closing the deal. Whether the buyer is a strategic acquirer or a financial one, and whether the seller is a first-time business owner or a serial entrepreneur, we have what it takes to get the deal done.
Our team’s experience and dedication allows us to compete with large law firms in providing M&A services. Unlike mega-law firms that use dozens of lawyers and treat every transaction the same as their billion-dollar deals, we understand that our clients need capable legal representation tailored to their particular transaction. We frequently work opposite national and international law firms in M&A transactions. Our clients choose us because they find us to be result-oriented and flexible.
More than just attorneys, we are business advisors. Many of our attorneys are also business owners and Board members, which means that we can put ourselves in the shoes of our business clients and their executives. This also means that, above all, we are results-oriented. Our attorneys are committed to exceptional client service, and we provide it with common sense, good judgment, and a practical approach to what our clients want.
If you’re contemplating an M&A transaction and you would like to schedule a consultation, please call the firm at 610.436.0100.
Banking & Finance Law
Banking & Finance Law
MacElree Harvey provides a wide range of services associated with banking and finance.
MacElree Harvey’s Banking and Finance attorneys regularly represent borrowers and lenders such as banks, savings associations, credit unions, finance companies and other financial institutions in a wide variety of lending and other financing transactions, including large multi-bank credit facilities, tax-exempt loan facilities and bond issues, asset-backed and secured loans, real estate loans, letter of credit facilities and loan participations.
We routinely represent lenders or borrowers in new financings, which include construction loans, lines of credit, letters of credit and other facilities.
MacElree Harvey’s Banking and Finance attorneys also represent our corporate, real estate, and non-profit clients in the structuring, negotiation, and documentation of credit facilities, equipment leases, private placements, and other financing transactions.
Our attorneys are also experienced in tax-exempt finance and have acted as borrowers’ or bond counsel in financings, both routine and complex, in manufacturing, qualified 501(c)(3), and bank qualified loans.
We are known for our attorneys’ ability to be creative and flexible. We offer advice on loan and collateral structures that fit the transaction at hand.
Our Banking and Finance attorneys also work with other attorneys across other practice areas of the Firm to provide results-oriented service that adds value to our clients.
Our recent experience includes:
- Representation of an early stage environmental manufacturing company with venture capital convertible bridge loan financing.
- Representation of four non-profit corporations that support state universities as the borrower in the issuance of over $300,000,000 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 a bond, credit, real estate and construction agreements associated with the projects.
- 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 bank as the 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.
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If you would like to schedule a consultation, please call the firm at 610.436.0100 or submit the contact request form.
Business and Corporate Law
Business and Corporate Law
Businesses need lawyers who not only know the law but who also understand their business.
Our business law practice places an emphasis on small and mid-market companies. We build strong relationships with our clients so we understand their goals and challenges and can act as a trusted legal and business advisor. Our business attorneys help clients in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Northern Delaware find reasonable and practical solutions to business and legal problems.
Starting at formation and through the lifecycle of a business, we provide comprehensive and knowledgeable advice on numerous issues facing small to mid-market companies. Our team of attorneys will assist with entity formation, hiring and terminating employees, confidentiality and non-compete issues; drafting shareholder, partnership and operating agreements; and a wide variety of business and commercial contracts. Our business attorneys regularly handle complex business matters including governance issues, strategic planning, executive compensation, negotiating and structuring financing, transition, continuity and succession planning, and liquidity events such as sales or mergers.
To ensure our clients get the best representation possible, where appropriate, our business team that works closely with other MacElree Harvey lawyers, drawing on the skills and experience of lawyers in the areas of commercial litigation, taxation, estate, and succession planning, real estate, employment, finance, insolvency, collections, and restructuring.
Representative Areas of Service:
- Business Formation
- Transactions and Transitions
- Family Businesses
- Professional Practices
Business Formation
MacElree Harvey has helped hundreds of new businesses get their start. We assist clients in the start-up phase with the critical first steps to establish their businesses. We listen to our clients’ objectives, in order to understand the nature of their business, taking into consideration liability concerns, tax ramifications, management and ownership structures, financial issues, and other issues specific to their business.
Throughout every stage of a client’s business, we encourage an eye to the future. Our goal is to build long-term relationships with our clients, tailoring our legal services to their business as it grows and develops.
Transactions and Transitions
MacElree Harvey aims to simplify the legal process and provide affordable, high-quality corporate law services so our clients can stick to what they do best while we handle the compliance, contractual and other legal concerns. We assist owners and boards of directors maintain their operations and foster growth while avoiding legal and regulatory pitfalls. Our attorneys regularly handle complex business matters related to governance, transitions and transactions, strategic planning, raising financing, and offering new services or products. Our attorneys also advise clients on transfers of technology and intellectual property, as well as trademarks, copyrights, and licenses. As our clients’ businesses expand and change, we approach each transaction with financial considerations and long-term strategic plans in mind. Our attorneys listen to the clients’ objectives before aggressively pursuing their interests in any transaction.
Unfortunately, not all business ventures end harmoniously. A “business divorce” involves issues of control, ownership, and distribution of property, as well as potential payments. These business decisions are often accompanied by high-stakes conflict and intense emotions. Our attorneys lend a depth of experience in negotiation and strategic unwinding of a business. When necessary, we work with our litigation group to resolve disagreements as part of the business divorce process.
Family Businesses
MacElree Harvey has worked closely with generations of family business owners and executives. We understand that an owner’s closely held business may be a family’s largest and most important asset. We provide advice related to governance, risk management, employment, real estate, and tax matters, as well as continuity and succession planning. In addition, we help family business owners anticipate risk and conflict through each stage of their business. We evaluate the goals of a business’s current and future owners and advise clients on advanced planning related to management, tax structures, valuation, and transition.
As family businesses pass from generation to generation, transferring ownership, control and assets can be a complex and emotional process. Our attorneys work with families and their advisers to do advance planning for these transitions, minimizing conflict and stress. If disputes arise within the family as part of this process, our attorneys are highly skilled at dealing with those conflicts and negotiating them to resolution. We apply our experience and knowledge from prior successful transitions to our clients’ situations to achieve clients’ goals.
Family business succession planning is a vital component for any closely-held business owner’s estate plan. Our business attorneys work closely with our estates and trusts group, coordinating our efforts to plan business ownership transfers using methods that satisfy our clients’ personal objectives while minimizing risk and tax burdens.
Professional Practices
Owners of professional practices are subject to the same important business decisions as to any other business owner. Doctors, dentists, accountants, lawyers, architects and owners of other licensed professional practices frequently call upon our attorneys for counsel on the legal issues confronting their businesses.
MacElree Harvey’s business attorneys regularly establish professional practices, assisting clients with entity selection and formation, as well as management and governance. Our real estate attorneys negotiate leases for office space and space sharing agreements. As practices grow, owners may choose to add associate members. These changes require developing employment contracts, partnership tracks, non-competition agreements, and compensation plans. Further, when more than one person will be involved in the ownership of the practice, our attorneys assist in designing appropriate business agreements that consider issues ranging from buy-in methods to exit strategies.
Employment policies are also an important consideration for professional practices. We advise clients on employment issues such as employment manuals, workplace policies, hiring and termination procedures, as well as compliance with federal, state and local laws.
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If you would like to schedule a consultation, please call the firm at 610.436.0100 or submit the contact request form.
West Chester, PA
Centreville, DE | Hockessin, DE | Kennett Square, PA | West Chester, PA
17 West Miner Street
West Chester, PA 19382
610-436-0100
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