Ulmer & Berne’s business practice is dedicated to helping our clients achieve their full potential and make their businesses what they want them to be, by combining legal experience with business acumen and creativity. We focus on our clients’ needs and we invest time to understand their businesses. Our goal is simply to deliver exceptional client service and add value.
Our clients range from entrepreneurs and early stage ventures, to emerging growth companies and middle market business, to Fortune 1000 companies, to the individual and institutional investors who finance them. 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 help our clients at all stages of their business and in a variety of ways – from strategic planning to debt and equity financings, to board and governance counseling and executive and incentive compensation, to commercial agreements, to complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology transactions, restructurings and divestitures.
Above all, we build relationships with and add value to our clients. Your 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.