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Business & Corporate Finance

Baker & Daniels’ business lawyers have been helping companies grow for nearly 150 years by providing strategic legal counsel to businesses that are building Indiana and beyond. Our lawyers understand that, in today's world, clients face a variety of complicated legal issues in an environment that never stops moving—that's why we place a priority on being available when a client contacts us and responding within the time frame his or her business requires.

Lawyers from our business and corporate finance team represent a wide variety of clients, including publicly and privately held companies, S&P 500 and small cap companies, underwriters, other market participants and investors on an ongoing and transactional basis. We are a full-service law firm and can help with almost any issue facing your business.

Our team’s work often involves collaborating with Baker & Daniels professionals from other practice areas, including insurance, labor, antitrust, employee benefits, environmental, real estate, government incentives, and intellectual property.

Certified Business Enterprises & Supplier Diversity

Baker & Daniels’ certified business enterprises (CBE) and supplier diversity practice concentrates in two areas:
* Certification, development and expansion of CBEs, including businesses owned by minorities, women, disadvantaged and disabled veterans or under Hub zone, 8(a) and other certifications.
* Assistance to major corporations in developing supplier diversity and vendor outreach programs.

Baker & Daniels has the expertise and resources to counsel clients in a wide range of matters. Our practice group includes professionals from a variety of the firm's key practice areas, including labor and employment, emerging businesses, real estate, taxes, government services and intellectual property. We provide all the necessary professional services needed for the growth and development of CBE companies.

CBE Services
* Certification for minority, women, disabled veterans, disadvantaged, small and other businesses
* CBE business structure, joint ventures and tax law
* Intellectual property protection, including patent, trademark and copyright
* Labor and employment law
* Litigation defense
* Real estate law, including land use, environmental and construction law
* Investments and capitalization
* Contract review and drafting
* Diversity training and strategy development
* Business development, planning and risk management
* Regulatory compliance

Corporate Supplier Program Services
* Identification of diverse suppliers with quality products at competitive prices
Development of strategies to attain utilization goals
* Advice on legal requirements of voluntary programs
Compliance with federally required programs for construction and providing federal services
* Assistance with partnerships and joint ventures
* Advice on corporate infrastructure to support 1st and 2nd tier supplier diversity programs, including benchmarking, data validation and cleansing, assessment of purchasing needs and business opportunities, and supplier management tracking system
* Web site development with vendors registration
* Network to build relationships and partnerships
* Training for key personnel and vendors
* Monitoring and reporting of results

Labor & Employment

National Experience ... Personal Connection

When labor and employment issues arise, you need to respond quickly. Solving difficult labor and employment law problems requires skill and experience. With nearly 50 legal professionals devoted to labor and employment law, Baker & Daniels provides the depth, breadth and knowledge to meet clients' most challenging objectives.

Our ability is reflected in the diverse number of clients who rely on us for their important employment matters. Baker & Daniels represents national, regional and local businesses. We understand the needs of clients vary by the type of enterprise because we work with a range of private sector businesses, including manufacturing, health care, service, retail, logistics, construction and child care. Our group also solves employment issues for public sector clients.

We defend employment litigation in federal and state courts and advocate before fair employment law practices agencies. Baker & Daniels' experience includes extensive jury trial and class action representation. Avoiding claims is on equal footing to defense. On a daily basis, our professionals provide personnel advice and client counseling on a variety of matters. We provide guidance on policies, supervisor skill set training, work force reductions, employment contracts and restrictive covenants, workplace safety and substance abuse issues, disability accommodation, leaves of absence, discipline and termination, and all personnel issues.

Our professionals listen to our clients' needs — and fashion practical, creative paths to reach their objectives with efficiency. We do not tell clients, "You can't do that." We prepare a p lan to achieve their goals. Our collaborative team brings decades of collective experience — 11 professionals possess more than 20 years of employer advocacy and 22 professionals have more than 10 years of employer advocacy.

Every employer faces the challenge of federal and state employment laws and regulations. We guide clients through issues under the Service Contract Act, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Fair Labor Standards Act (Wage and Hour), Davis - Bacon Act, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) and Sarbanes-Oxley. Some of Baker & Daniels' professionals devote most of their practices to veterans rights, diversity, affirmative action and Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP) matters. Professionals in our Washington, D.C. office are leaders in immigration law compliance.

For many of our clients, no service is more valuable than our decades of skill in strong union avoidance and collective bargaining. Remaining non-union requires planning and effort. Baker & Daniels provides management training, strategies and coaching to achieve the goal. When National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) petitions or charges occur, we fashion and implement defenses. For many clients, dealing with unions is an accepted option, and we formulate and negotiate bargaining strategies that help them best achieve their goals. Our experience includes contract interpretation advice, defense of arbitrations, collective bargaining agreement negotiations, and managing union strikes and picketing.

Baker & Daniels advocates passionately for employers only, avoiding the mixed loyalties of employee representation. On a multistate basis, we represent employers. We also solve employment issues in the public sector for cities.

The quality of Baker & Daniels' work is recognized regularly by others. Our labor and employment law group has the highest rating by Chambers USA: A Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers, which also lists more of our professionals than any Indiana law firm. Baker & Daniels also is among the leaders in recognition by The Best Lawyers in America.

Attorneys in our group are the editors of the Indiana Employment Law Letter, a monthly subscription publication of M. Lee Smith Publishers in Nashville, Tennessee. We created the CD, It's the Law, sold by the National Child Care Association as its leading management training tool. We have authored, or co-authored, many publications of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, including the Indiana Employment Law Handbook, Indiana Guide to Hiring and Firing, and Indiana Handbook for Supervisors.

Our attorneys are eager to work with your business to help achieve your goals and avoid employment law pitfalls.

Baker & Daniels LLP
111 E Wayne St #800
Ft Wayne IN 46802
Tel: 260 424-8000
Fax: 260 460-1700

Lawyers providing advice and counsel for international, national and regional clients' legal and business needs

Lawyers providing advice and counsel for regional, national and international clients' legal and business needs. Creative approaches to litigation, corporate finance, health care and life sciences, labor and employment, intellectual property, international and other leagl issues. Baker & Daniels has offices in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Beijing.