Business Law

Your success is our success.

UB Greensfelder’s business law practice helps clients achieve their full potential and make their businesses what they want by combining legal experience with business acumen and creativity. We focus on our clients’ needs and invest time in understanding their businesses. We aim to deliver exceptional client service and add value to our clients’ businesses. 

Who We Are

Drawing on our experience with commercial transactions, financing, corporate governance, executive compensation, and other areas, we help our clients at all stages of their business and in various ways.

How We Help

We represent a wide variety of businesses, including public companies, private equity groups, venture funds and their portfolio companies, financial institutions, middle market companies, family offices, entrepreneurs, and emerging growth companies. We represent both domestic and foreign companies with national and international commercial business and cross-border transactions. We serve as outside general counsel to many of our clients and act as special counsel to others, either in specialized areas or on a transactional basis.

We regularly counsel clients on strategic planning, debt and equity financings, board and governance counseling, executive and incentive compensation, commercial agreements, acquisitions of new divisions, expansions into new markets, business succession planning, and complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology transactions, restructurings, and divestitures.

Why Clients Choose UB Greensfelder

Above all, we build relationships with and add value to our clients. Our clients’ success is our success. Our business practice is multidisciplinary. We work closely with our tax, banking and finance, employee benefits, labor and employment, environmental, real estate, and intellectual property lawyers to deliver seamless, dynamic legal services.

Business Law

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Thadford A. Felton
Partner | Partner-in-Charge, Chicago
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Vincent J. Garozzo
Partner | Chair, Corporate Department
Portrait of Lori Pittman Haas
Lori Pittman Haas
Partner | Group Leader, Real Estate
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Kevin F. Hormuth
Partner | Co-Group Leader, Business Litigation
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Scott P. Kadish
Co-Managing Partner
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Beata Krakus
Partner | Co-Group Leader, Franchise Industry
Portrait of Douglas S. Neville
Douglas S. Neville
Partner | Co-Group Leader, Tax
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Tracy R. Ring
Partner | Vice Chair, Corporate Department
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Patricia A. Shlonsky
Partner | Partner-in-Charge, Cleveland
Portrait of Patrick J. Sweeney
Patrick J. Sweeney
Partner | Group Leader, Business Law
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Adam R. Watowicz
Partner | Co-Group Leader, Tax
Portrait of Robert S. Winner
Robert S. Winner
Partner | Group Leader, Cannabis Industry