Beers, Mallers, Backs & Salin LLP

/Home/Business Attorneys: Ft. Wayne IN

Fort Wayne Business Lawyers | IN | Mergers & Acquisitions

As business owners ourselves, we understand that effective legal counsel is sometimes more than simply identifying a legal issue. Our Business and Corporate Section strives not only to resolve complex business matters but also to afford our clients the benefit of our experience as creative counselors and entrepreneurs. As general, regional or local counsel, we represent publicly-held and closely-held businesses operating in virtually every sector of the economy. We have extensive experience representing corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and individuals in a wide variety of commercial transactions. Such transactions include the purchase and sale of real estate and businesses, mergers and acquisitions, the purchase and sale of equipment and other personal property assets, stock transfers, private placement offerings, asset-based financing, and negotiating franchise and distributorship agreements..

We also provide general legal assistance to individual businesses, as well as maintain an experienced staff of business litigators to aggressively promote and protect our clients’ interests.

Nurturing The Entrepreneurial Spirit

Several years ago, one of our clients started a business in his garage with his sons. Today, that client has more than 200 employees and has exceeded $100 million in annual sales. Fort Wayne has been home to a number of similar entrepreneurs and we are proud that our team has helped many of them incorporate, grow, and seek investment monies and other opportunities. If you own a business, or are thinking of starting one, we can help you at start-up, exit, and every stage in between.

Business Succession Planning

If you’re like most business owners, you’ve poured your heart and soul into building your business. Transitioning out of the business you’ve worked so hard to create can be difficult emotionally and, of course, financially—for many business owners, the business represents their greatest single asset.

At Beers Mallers, we have extensive experience helping business owners accomplish all of their personal and family objectives. We will design the optimal plan for you to transition your business to the next generation of ownership. If you wish to pass your business on to your family, we will show you how to avoid the infighting and rivalries that often develop when siblings with conflicting interests assume shared ownership. This will enable you to leave a legacy of continued family cooperation rather than one of conflict.

Employment Law | Litigation Lawyers | Fort Wayne

The American workplace has become the judicial and regulatory focal point for a vast array of new laws and trends in the law that dramatically affect today’s employer. The explosion of state and federal court litigation during the past several years is a testament to the willingness of private and public sector employees, often with the assistance of organized labor, to challenge the fundamental business decision-making of their employers. Moreover, unions have again become emboldened to organize nonunion employers, while correspondingly resorting to contractual and other legal challenges to management’s rights in the existing unionized environment.

Beers Maller’s Labor and Employment Relations Section is uniquely qualified to represent interests of private and public sector employers, both union and nonunion. Our Section members include litigates, labor negotiators and municipal attorneys skilled in assisting our clients to accomplish their goals. We have negotiated dozens of labor contracts with several international unions, including the Teamster’s, IBEW and PBA.

Our attorneys have successfully arbitrated discharge, discipline and management rights cases on issues ranging from insubordinate employee conduct to the rights of employers to temporarily lay employees off without regard to seniority. We practice before the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in both federal and state courts. We have frequently counseled and trained management personnel on maintaining union-free status, as well as on effectively supervising and disciplining hourly employees in both union and nonunion settings.

An important adjunct to our practice focuses on workplace issues such as “at-will” employment status, wrongful discharge, privacy and defamation, and compliance with state and federal statutory schemes, including Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Federal Wage and Hour laws, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the National Labor Relations Act.

Ultimately, our goal in this area of the law is to maximize our clients’ professional and business decision-making, while ensuring that such decisions are productive and cost-effective.

Beers, Mallers, Backs & Salin LLP
110 W Berry St #1100
Ft Wayne IN 46802
Tel: 260 426-9706
Fax: 260 420-1314

Fort Wayne Medicaid Lawyer | NE Indiana | Elder Law Attorneys

Experienced Northeast IN attorneys helping individuals, families and business owners in business and corporate law, elder law and Medicaid planning.