What sets Selzer Gurvitch corporate attorneys apart from most lawyers is our entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen. We “get” the opportunities and excitement and, at times, the pressures and stresses, of making decisions that affect you and your business partners, employees and families. We are strategic thinkers and planners and, thus, trusted advisors to our clients.

We apply our business acumen and legal experience to your matters, whether we’re negotiating an acquisition or divestiture deal, structuring and forming your business or investment venture, lining up and arranging for financing, incentivizing, compensating and retaining key executives and employees or handling partnership or shareholder and management disputes. We understand the pace of deals and make ourselves available and accessible to our clients.

We represent private companies and equity groups in structuring their operations and investments. We have extensive experience in crafting sophisticated and creative financial arrangements, including complex tiers of returns and preferred returns, restricted stock, stock options, stock appreciation rights, “phantom stock,” bonus plans, deferred compensation, purchase options, put and call rights and a myriad of other forms.

We handle M&A transactions in every form — taxable and non-taxable sales of assets or stock, mergers, conversions, re-organizations, spinoffs, split-ups and other business combinations. In line with the firm’s comprehensive tax focus, our attorneys provide sophisticated tax analysis and planning to structure deals in the most tax-efficient manner possible. This starts from the earliest stages of negotiating a term sheet and continues through negotiating and preparing deal documents and to making sure your deal closes.

We represent lenders and borrowers in financing transactions, including loans and raising funds for investment or venture capital. In addition, Selzer Gurvitch has developed longstanding relationships with accountants, business appraisers, brokers, bankers and governmental authorities within numerous state and local communities and can offer this network of professional advisors to our clients. Our experienced trusts and estates attorneys develop business succession plans and design trusts and estate plans to meet our clients’ business and personal goals.

Selzer Gurvitch provides effective advice to our business clients in an understandable and timely manner through all stages of the life cycle of a business.