Corporate and Business Transactions

Our Firm provides comprehensive business and corporate law services to privately held middle market companies.

From family businesses with several employees to significant middle market operations with revenues in excess of $100 million, we understand that your business means the world to you. It should – you’ve put time, effort, and energy into your business to create a lasting success. At Wickens Herzer Panza, we strive to keep you focused on growing your business by providing strategic yet practical corporate and business advice to our region’s privately-held businesses and private equity sponsors. With our commitment to long term relationships, our Firm has partnered with clients from the businesses’ inception to sale and all the steps along the way.

Our areas of expertise include:

Business Contracts
Business Succession Planning
Craft Beer
Equity Compensation
Formation & Entity Selection
Franchising
Intellectual Property
Mergers & Acquisitions
Non-Profit Representation
Regulatory Compliance
Securities
Start-Up Representation
Tax

Get to know us

In 2016, we represented sellers in a transactions with total sale proceeds in excess of $200 million.
In 2017, our clients participated in transactions as varied as the acquisition of a middle-market manufacturing company, to the sale of a regional boat retailer to a national private equity firm, to a management buyout of a commercial construction company.
In 2018, we structured and negotiated over 20 corporate succession plans, including intra-family transitions, intra-company transitions, and sales to third parties.