Practice Areas » Corporate and Business Law

Acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, bankruptcies, leveraging, de-leveraging - the corporate world today is a whirlwind of fundamental changes. Amid all the turmoil, Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch LLC lawyers are a compass for constructive change.

Our experience is broad and deep. We have completed more than 400 complex corporate transactions in the last decade. Our clients include both publicly traded and privately held concerns. Some are regular clients of the firm. Many others retain us as special counsel because of our reputation in the field.

We prize our role as co-creators with our clients of long-term business value. A number of the region's leading transactions were initiated in and by our firm. Among them were the purchase of the nation's seventh largest steelmaker, the acquisition of a publicly-traded manufacturer now used as a case study at Harvard, and the creation of a regional railroad in a transaction whose structure became the model for dozens of railroad reorganizations that followed.

We bring to bear on our assignments an insider's knowledge of the industries in which our clients are active. As a result, we develop solid strategies that create lasting value.

Following are a few examples of the spectrum of legal issues handled by our attorneys:

• Organized and developed a United States presence for the largest French-owned manufacturer of large mill machinery, including service as this company's general counsel. In this capacity, we negotiated approximately $400 million of mill machinery contracts.

• Representation of a public company that developed systems for use by the electric utility industry with respect to all matters, including product development arrangements, protection of intellectual property, securing of governmental funding, creation of strategic alliances and securities law compliance.

• Rolled back nearly one hundred years of labor protection of railroad employees under Interstate Commerce Commission regulations in a transaction that became the model for dozens of national railroad reorganizations.

• Served as corporate general counsel in the initial public offering of a fully-integrated domestic steel manufacturer with sales of over $1.1 billion.

• Successfully protected a publicly held manufacturer of rail and related transportation products form the financial difficulties and ultimate bankruptcy reorganization of its majority stockholder.

• Represented the receiver in the bankruptcy of a national hockey league franchise. Negotiated the interim financing agreements and player contracts and oversaw the efforts necessary to effect the stabilization, marketing and ultimate sale of them team.