Business lawyers must have a keen understanding of a client’s business and its needs. At Freeborn & Peters LLP, we understand the challenges our clients face and provide practical advice for today’s business environment. Our Business Law Group possesses the breadth and depth necessary to provide full-service legal advice to any business enterprise, and we specialize in helping middle-market companies achieve their full potential. Our legal teams include former CEOs, business executives and general counsel, which allows us to bring business experience to an integrated legal solution. We have developed unique expertise in the following types of representation:
Private Company Mergers & Acquisitions: We regularly handle purchases and sales of privately held businesses in the middle-market, with purchase prices from $20 million to $500 million. Our clients include family-owned businesses, closely held businesses, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, public companies (as purchasers or sellers of privately held businesses), employee stock ownership plans and Chapter 11 debtors.
Portfolio Company Representation: We routinely partner with our private equity clients to provide a customized one-stop solution for the core legal needs of their portfolio companies. As a full-service law firm, Freeborn & Peters provides seamless coordination of a portfolio company’s legal needs, from business transactions and corporate matters to litigation, real estate, bankruptcy and governmental and regulatory issues.
Select International Expertise: Our firm is unique among mid-sized law firms in that we offer significant cross-border expertise tailored to middle-market businesses. In response to our expanding client base of foreign companies and U.S. companies with business dealings abroad, we have developed dedicated practice groups to focus on business transactions involving some of America’s largest trading partners, including China, Canada and Ireland.
