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Based in Chicago, Illinois, Levenfeld Pearlstein LLC have a varied number of service groups in many sectors such as corporate practice, litigation practice, asset planning and preservation, banking and finance, community associations, creditors' rights & insolvency, employee benefits & executive compensation, employment environmental, exchange, intellectual property, and taxation.

Recognized as one of the nation's most innovative mid-sized law firms by The National Law Journal's "Midsize Hotlist", Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC (www.lplegal.com) provides Unusually Good legal counsel and business advice to sophisticated clients in matters involving corporate and securities law, real estate, and litigation. The firm's business-first approach helps clients to proactively address, solve and move past their legal issues so that they can quickly return to doing what they do best. With nearly 60 attorneys and offices in Chicago and Northbrook, Ill., the firm possesses the resources and depth to manage the most complex matters, while ensuring that the needs of all clients are met in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible

• Banking and finance
• Bankruptcy and insolvency
• Business restructuring
• Corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Employee benefits and executive compensation
• Environmental
• Estate planning, trusts and probate
• Fund management
• Insurance and reinsurance
• Intellectual property
• Labour and employment
• Real estate
• Taxation

• Mergers & acquisitions
• Joint ventures
• Venture capital
• Organizational governance

• Registered public offerings
• SEC compliance
• Hedge fund and other private fund structurings and offerings
• Real estate syndications
• Investment adviser compliance

• Corporate partnering and licensing
• Manufacturing and distribution agreements
• Intellectual property protection
• Employment and confidentiality agreements 

• Sophisticated tax planning
• 1031 exchange transactions
• Non-consolidation opinions
• Succession and estate plannings

• Business Entity Ownership & Governance Litigation
• Business Torts & Unfair Competition
• Commercial & Class Action Litigation
• Electronic Discovery & E-Litigation
• Hedge Fund & Investment Management
• Product Liability, Mass & Toxic Tort
• Risk Management & Insurance
• Securities & Commodities Litigation
• Trust & Estate Litigation
• White Collar Criminal Defense & Corporate Internal Investigations

• Acquisitions and dispositions
• Leasing (tenant and landlord representation)
• Financings and loan document review
• Tax deferred exchanges (1031 exchanges)
• Development and construction transactions
• Condominium conversions
• Condominium and homeowners association formation and operation
• Environmental issues
• Title, survey, zoning and planning
• Residential, hotel, and office condominium development
• Conduit lending and mezzanine loans
• Joint ventures, syndications and other investment structuring and transactions
• TIC transactions
• Antenna network leasing and retail telecom leasing
• Tax Credits including: New Markets Tax Credits, Historic and Rehabilitation Credits, and Affordable Housing Credits and Energy Credits

• Will drafting
• Trust drafting
• Guardianship representation
• Trust administration
• Probate administration
• Gifting consultation
• Insurance planning

• Lender representation
• SBA lender representation
• Due diligence
• Loan documentation, closings, and restructurings
• Post closing matters
• Forbearance agreements
• Replevins
• Foreclosures
• State court litigation
• Bankruptcies
• Seminars for our clients on all of the above

• Contract review
• Condominium declaration, rules and amendment preparation
• Cooperative bylaws and proprietary lease drafts and amendments
• Association major repair program structures and documentation collections
• Construction litigation real estate acquisitions
• Condominium property licenses
• Cable television contract negotiations
• Labor law matters
• Declaration and rule enforcement
• Condominium and homeowners association loan documentation and negotiation with lending institutions

• Environmental litigation
• Environmental issues in real estate deals and other transactions
• Environmental legal reviews of phase I reports
• Environmental compliance

• Patent preparation and enforcement
• Trademark preparation and enforcement
• Copyright protection
• Trade secret protection
• Technology protection
• IP Audits

• Ownership structuring
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Private equity
• Venture capital
• Divestitures
• Restructurings
• Real estate taxation
• 1031 and other tax-free exchanges
• Institutional investor counseling
• International taxation
• State and local taxation
• Audit appeal and defense
• Tax litigation
• Federal and state private letter ruling requests

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