Corporate

Dinsmore & Shohl’s Corporate Department provides legal services in a broad array of disciplines that combine to provide clients with full-service corporate and business law experience.

Our attorneys are experienced in:

    • Business formation and organization 
    • Corporate finance 
    • Federal and state securities law 
    • Federal, state and local tax law 
    • Real estate 
    • Employee and executive benefits 
    • Trust and estate planning 
    • Probate and estate planning
    • Banking 
    • Municipal and Public Finance
    • Stock offerings
    • Commercial law 
    • Mergers and acquisitions 
    • Venture capital, private equity and hedge funds
    • Partnerships 
    • Limited liability companies and joint ventures
    • Sarbanes Oxley compliance and corporate governance best practices

Clients include individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies and all types of corporations – both public and private, domestic and international – engaged in a wide variety of businesses.

Corporate Department services include: 

    • Organization and formation of all types of business entities 
    • Structuring shareholder and investor relations 
    • Capital formation 
    • Mergers and acquisitions 
    • Private and public sales of securities, including initial public offerings
    • Municipal bond counsel 
    • Financing alternatives 
    • Corporate compliance audits and programs 
    • Securities act reporting compliance and disclosure issues 
    • Federal, state and local tax law 
    • Trustees and underwriters' counsel for tax-exempt debt
    • General business consulting 
    • Executive compensation - qualified and non-qualified 
    • Trust and estate matters 
    • All facets of real estate law 
    • International law, including acquisitions, joint ventures, licensing, and distributorships 
    • Franchising 
    • Bankruptcy and debtor/creditor rights issues
    • Commercial lending and borrowing

Our attorneys work closely with our clients and/or their in-house counsel in dealing with the many complex legal and business issues that challenge business organizations. Each year we complete various financing transactions, both large and small, as well as numerous mergers and acquisitions. We combine detailed legal experience with business sense to serve the needs of clients.