Minneapolis Business Attorneys - Real Estate Transaction Lawyers - Lapp, Libra, Thomson, Stoebner & Pusch
Careful Solutions for Diverse Business Legal Needs
Our focus, regardless of the area of practice, is on providing simple, valuable solutions to legal issues wherever our clients may face them. Our work on behalf of businesses, banks, corporations, and commercial real estate owners includes:
Our business litigation attorneys represent clients of all types and sizes, helping them resolve disputes of every nature using a variety of methods. We have successfully concluded simple to the most complex through summary judgment motions, trial, mediation, arbitration, settlement negotiations, and other avenues of conflict resolution.
Our corporate and business planning attorneys help clients with practical and timely guidance on all types of transactions, including the following:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Buy-sell agreements
- Franchising
- Financing arrangements
- Stock transactions
- Asset transactions
- Licensing agreements
- Employment contracts
- Compensation agreements
- Contracts involving suppliers and distributors
- Liquidation
- Succession
- Termination
- Dissolution
We represent creditors’ committees and other constituents in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, as well as bankruptcy panel trustees in Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases. We aggressively represent commercial lenders and creditors with problem and defaulted loans.
Our clients turn to us when they face matters involving, among others:
- Check fraud
- Letters of credit
- Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
- Electronic Funds Transfer Act
- Federal Reserve Regulations
- Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) articles 3, 4 and 5
- Priority disputes among lenders regarding security interests under Article 9
Our work for clients in these areas includes the following:
- Employment planning and dispute prevention
- Employment contracts
- Advice on COBRA rights
- Covenants not to compete
- Employee handbooks or manuals
- Separation or employee termination matters
- Employment litigation
We are experienced in facilitating all types of commercial real estate transactions, including commercial real estate leases involving offices and shopping centers, real estate acquisitions, and sales. Our primary real estate lawyer is a certified real property specialist.
We advocate on behalf of commercial landlords, tenants, real estate developers, and real estate investors and owners in a full array of real estate litigation matters, including lease disputes, zoning, easements, adverse possession and title litigation.
Because of our track record of litigation successes we frequently find ourselves representing the winning party when the loser appeals. Because of our reputation in the areas of banking law and bankruptcy, we often are hired to handle appeals in cases referred to us by other law firms. We are admitted in all federal and state appeals courts and have successfully prosecuted appeals to the United States Supreme Court, the Minnesota Supreme Court and Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Individual business owners and executive clients often seek the advice of our estate planning attorneys to deal with succession of business interests, retirement, or disability in an estate plan. We counsel the client on all available options before custom designing the most appropriate wills, trusts, and powers of attorney. Our clients also turn to us for probate representation.
To schedule a consultation with a lawyer from Lapp, Libra, Thomson, Stoebner & Pusch, contact our Minneapolis office through this Web site.
