Practice Areas & Industries: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Practice/Industry Group Overview

The Commercial and Contract Law Group offers its clients skilled, practical and experienced counseling and support to assist with all types of business problems, both domestic and international. The services go beyond traditional legal services to include general business advice, input into business planning and development, risk assessment and advice on business strategies of many types. Often, because of our years of experience counseling businesses of all sizes, our lawyers are called on by clients to serve as general corporate counsel, or as liaison with a client's general counsel, to administer all types of business and legal matters.

We give our clients constructive advice in a timely and cost-effective manner to assist in achieving the desired goal, but only after a thorough understanding of our clients' products and services and the surrounding business environment, including industrywide factors. Our lawyers have become trusted and respected advisors to business decision-makers in many different businesses of all sizes, from individual entrepreneurships to multi-national corporations.

Section Services

These are examples of the variety of transactions handled by our Business and International lawyers.

• Business agreement of all types
• Commercial terms and conditions of sale and purchase, including warranties
• Trade regulations, including antitrust advice and FTC matters
• Hart-Scott-Rodino clearance of acquisitions
• Acquisition and disposition of businesses
• Franchising arrangements and continuing advice
• Marketing, sales and distribution agreements and related matters
• Government contracting and data rights protection
• Licensing and other technology transfer mechanisms
• Computer contracting and software protection and acquisition
• Product liability litigation and corporate awareness programs
• Protection of trade secrets
• Liquor licensing, regulatory compliance and enforcement matters
• International transactions
• Import/export regulation
• Regulation of foreign ownership of businesses
• International business transactions
• Immigration
• Foreign investment in U.S. (Exon-Florio)