Legal counsel for all your business needs

Corporate, M&A, U.S. Securities,

and Real Estate Practice

  • We maintain a preeminent practice counseling and representing middle-market private companies, private funds, family offices, and boards of directors of private and public companies.

  • We routinely handle the acquisitions and reorganization of businesses and assets, mergers of businesses, joint ventures, strategic alliances, equity and debt investments, public and private market capital-raising activities, real estate, and other corporate transactional matters.

  • We represent newly formed startups, lower-middle to middle-market companies, as well as small to large private funds in a wide spectrum of industries.

Litigation, Compliance, and Insolvency Practice

  • Our extensive transactional and operations experience allows us to provide strategic and effective representation to our clients involved in all stages of litigation. Our trial team regularly represents corporations and individuals in complex disputes in courtrooms and arbitrations across the United States.

  • We routinely handle internal compliance reviews, internal investigations, civil and criminal government investigations and enforcement actions, and sensitive audits with regulatory agencies at the federal and state level.

  • Our cases involve all aspects of complex commercial litigation, including partnership disputes, M&A litigation, real estate matters, restrictive covenant enforcement, and creditors’ rights advocacy. We also routinely handle all stages of government investigations, including Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement disputes, fraud, and regulatory enforcement actions.

Additional Practice Areas

In addition to our Corporate/M&A and Litigation practices, we focus on delivering the highest quality legal services with a high degree of efficiency across a range of other practice areas. Our accomplished attorneys have the experience and capability to handle sophisticated legal matters, and do so in an efficient, responsive, and cost-effective manner.

 

  • Gutnicki LLP has extensive experience in representing borrowers and lenders in all areas of finance. Our attorneys have assisted in the structuring, negotiations, documentation and enforcement of secured and unsecured transactions in a wide range of industries. We have a depth of experience in both traditional and complex finance transactions, including asset-based transactions and transactions secured by real estate.

  • The health care industry is a highly regulated industry that is constantly changing and emerging. Our attorneys have an invaluable depth of experience and expertise in this industry, which enables us to offer legal advice and services to create, manage, and grow businesses based on our understanding of this industry and the government agencies that regulate it.

    Gutnicki LLP provides regulatory and transactional services to a wide variety of health care entities. We have represented health care clients in the development, delivery, and financing of health care services, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, regulatory compliance, tax-exempt issues, and financing issues for tax and tax-exempt entities.

    Our attorneys partner with our clients to understand their needs and provide practical solutions. Our understanding of the industry allows us to provide innovative and cost-effective ways to create, protect, and grow businesses. Our experience enables us to prevent and resolve challenges and identify new business opportunities for our clients.

  • Our attorneys represent lenders, borrowers, and property owners in financing insured under the United States Housing Act and the National Housing Act. We have extensive experience representing owners and lenders in the development, financing, and operation of projects in all areas of the HUD-FHA programs, including the structuring and preparation for HUD financing, financing and documentation, refinancing, transfers of physical assets (TPAs), project based housing assistance programs, and administrative enforcement issues in all areas.

  • Our attorneys work closely with clients in implementing a variety of investment vehicles to balance the interests of various investor constituencies. In arranging investment structures, we have utilized alternate debt and equity offerings, detailed distribution waterfalls, and multiple entity tiers to achieve the desired balance of risk and return.

    In the healthcare field in particular, we also draw on our expertise in structuring the transaction to minimize risks related to health care laws, and maximize opportunities and results for our clients.

  • Our attorneys are well seasoned in a variety of purchase and leasing structures, and the specialized negotiation and documentation necessary to protect our clients’ interests across a wide spectrum of property types and market conditions. Our experience also covers a diverse assortment of industries, including representation of real estate clients in the healthcare, residential, retail, and office space industries.

    Real estate practice often involves location-specific rules and regulations. Our attorneys approach each locality on an individual basis, and work closely with local counsel on issues relating to land-use and zoning, property taxes, title insurance regulation, and deed conveyance. Having closed transactions throughout the United States, our attorneys are well equipped to anticipate location-specific variables, and ensure that they are adequately addressed.

  • The Restructuring, Insolvency, and Bankruptcy practice at Gutnicki LLP serves financial institutions, businesses, and individuals throughout Illinois and across the United States in a wide range of insolvency-related matters.

    The group is involved in every aspect of insolvency, most notably in the areas of restructuring, bankruptcy, reorganization, debt resolution, and business and commercial litigation. The group represents secured creditors and lenders, bondholders, corporate and individual debtors, bankruptcy trustees, assignees for the benefit of creditors, landlords and unsecured creditors’ committees in all aspects of restructuring, insolvency, and bankruptcy.

    The Firm’s experience in a wide array of industries allows members of the group to identify the legal and business issues that can arise from out-of-court restructurings, and advise clients on all available options, including workouts, restructuring, refinancing, negotiation, assignments for the benefit of creditors, litigation, Chapter 11 reorganization, and Chapter 7 liquidation. This experience extends to a diverse array of industries including healthcare, real estate, manufacturing, automotive, and construction.

    The group provides clients with flexible, comprehensive, and innovative solutions that incorporate the Firm’s multifaceted areas of expertise.

  • In an environment where every transaction has tax consequences, and slight variations in structure can lead to dramatically different tax treatment, a basic understanding of transactional tax rules is critical. Our attorneys add value by raising tax considerations in the early stages of the transaction, and avoiding the unnecessary delay of tax problems arising at the last minute. We have advised clients in maximizing depreciable tax basis, deferring recognition of taxable gain, and minimizing recognition of the cancellation of debt income that frequently results from transactions with distressed assets.

    Our attorneys also draw on their tax knowledge to work seamlessly with the accountants and outside tax advisers who are often part of the deal team, helping to provide our clients with advice that integrates the applicable tax and legal considerations.