General Corporate

Our General Corporate practice area encompasses a full range of legal needs for a business of any size, including business start-up and formation issues, financing agreements, contract drafting and negotiation, vendor agreements, risk management and allocation, acquisition of businesses and assets, liquidations, governance and regulatory compliance issues, preparation of government filings, and board of directors’ fiduciary and legal responsibilities. We integrate the following practice areas, enabling corporate and commercial clients to identify the legal consequences of their business planning, manage corporate interests, and respond swiftly to opportunities and threats.

We integrate the following practice areas, enabling corporate and commercial clients to identify the legal consequences of their business planning, manage corporate interests, and respond swiftly to opportunities and threats.

Corporate

Hall Estill services meet the full range of legal needs of large corporations, small and midsize companies, including, but not limited to:

Mergers, acquisitions and dispositions
Business start-up and formation issues, such as entity selection
Tax planning
Vendor agreements
Acquisition of businesses and assets
Liquidations, recapitalizations and spin-offs
Antitrust counsel
Board of directors' fiduciary and legal responsibilities
Preparation of governmental filings

Commercial

Our extensive Commercial Law experience includes, among other areas, business finance, project development and leasing:

Business Finance

Syndicated loans and market financing
Venture capital financing
Structured finance
Letters of credit financing
Accounts receivable financing
Railroad financing
Tax-sensitive financing, such as publicly and privately financed industrial development bonds
Tax-exempt pollution control facility financing
Leveraged buyouts
Project financing for district heating and cooling facilities
Asset securitizations

Project Development

Joint venture projects
Acquisitions and dispositions of businesses and assets
Major land development
Construction contracts

Leasing

Equipment and tax leases
Leveraged lease financing for aircraft, ocean-going barges and other major capital projects