Business

Dilworth Paxson’s Business Department lawyers regularly engage in advising a wide variety of businesses on matters including:

Business governance
Business planning for closely-held businesses
Financing transactions
Joint ventures
Mergers and acquisitions/business combinations
Stock options
Recapitalization
Business formation and dissolution
Venture capital projects
Executive employment agreements
Executive compensation issues
Other business and commercial transactions

The firm's business practice ranges from structuring and carrying out complex and sophisticated transactions, both domestic and international, to providing daily guidance to our clients on matters involving business governance, commercial dealings, regulatory issues, and business relationships. Our business clients include publicly- and privately-held companies, family-owned businesses, and entrepreneurs and investors. Our Business Department lawyers seek to develop close relationships with our clients enabling them to anticipate problems, offer strategic advice, and help avert troubling problems ahead.

Dilworth Paxson’s Business Department strives to provide a complete range of legal services to our business clients by capitalizing on our interdisciplinary resources. In order to reach this goal many of our business lawyers are also involved in other practice areas such as our Banking & Financial Services Group, Bankruptcy & Insolvency Group, Consumer Financial Services Group, Employee Benefits Group, Intellectual Property Group, Labor & Employment Group, Litigation Department, Public Finance Group, Real Estate Group, Securities Group, Tax Group, and Trust & Estates Group.

Representative Experience

Represented Philadelphia Newspapers involving the formation of an investor group, business acquisition, and financing.
Represented Independence Blue Cross/AmeriHealth involving acquisitions and business combinations, including a merger with Highmark.
Represented a private equity fund in a governance contest in a major Philadelphia bank.
Represented a leading provider of home warranty product’s $125 million sale of business.
Represented a minority shareholder in a private investment management company in a contested squeeze-out merger transaction.

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