Lawyers in Hand Arendall's Business and Finance Practice Group have experience in handling all types of financial and corporate transactions. They regularly provide advice in connection with:

• Corporate acquisitions and mergers
  
• Formation, management and dissolution of corporations, joint ventures, limited liability companies, and partnerships of all types
  
• Employment agreements and all types of compensation plans, including deferred compensation, incentive stock option, stock bonus, employee stock ownership, profit-sharing, pension and other employee benefit plans
  
• Non-compete and non-solicitation agreements
  
• Buy/sell shareholder agreements
  
• Organization and representation of banks, bank holding companies, and savings and loan associations
  
• Interpretation of and compliance with state and federal banking and consumer credit regulations
  
• Representation of lenders and borrowers in substantial loan transactions
  
• Representation of creditors in liquidation and reorganization proceedings, particularly as counsel for institutional lenders and other secured and unsecured creditors
  
• Franchises and distributorships
  
• Municipal and industrial bond issues
  
• Representation of issuers and underwriters in public securities offerings
  
• Advice on private placement of securities
  

For more information regarding the Business and Finance Practice Group, contact Practice Group Chairman T. Bruce McGowin or any of the other lawyers in the Practice Group.