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Louis Katz is a Shareholder at Ruberto, Israel & Weiner PC in Boston, Massachusetts. His areas of expertise include retail, food & hospitality, mergers & acquisitions, trusts & estates, corporate & business and commercial real estate.

Overview

Louis Katz is a Shareholder of the firm. His practice is focused on business law, complex commercial transactions and commercial real estate transactions. He regularly handles mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance transactions, business disputes and succession planning for closely held companies.

Louis was formerly a Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Virginia and Washington, D.C. Prior to practicing law, Louis practiced accounting for Arthur Andersen & Co. in its Washington, D.C. office. He is the author of “Toward a Compromise Method of Accounting for the Oil and Gas Industry” published in the Journal of Accountancy in June 1985. He has served as a commercial arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and has also served as a private mediator for commercial disputes.

Louis is the founder of the firm's Retail, Food and Hospitality group. This group represents distributors, manufacturers, retailers and restaurants in all aspects of commercial law including mergers and acquisitions, equity and bank financing, succession planning, commercial/real estate purchases and leases, license agreements, employment matters, shareholder matters and business disputes and reorganizations.

Louis is a co-sponsor of Restaurant Trends. Formed in 1993, Restaurant Trends presents annual seminars for the restaurant industry and serves as an important resource for restaurant owners and operators.

Languages Spoken

• English