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Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

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Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

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Firm Overview:

Keating Muething & Klekamp (KMK Law®) is a Cincinnati-based law firm that represents clients of all sizes, from start-up companies to Fortune 50 corporations. Founded in 1954, KMK has established a reputation for providing sophisticated legal services to business clients across the country.

Firm Details:

  • Managing Partner: Alan S Fershtman

Business Representation & Transactions: Represented American Financial Group, Inc. in its sale of Great American Life Insurance Company and its related annuity business assets to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company for $3.5 billion; Represented Bombe Asset Management in its $125 million investment in The Parking REIT and related tender offer

Key Clients:

  • Cintas Corporation
  • Multi-Color Corporation
  • American Financial Group, Inc.
  • MedPace, Inc.
  • The Gorilla Glue Company
  • AtriCure, Inc.
  • Meridian Bioscience, Inc.
  • American Trailer Rental Group
  • FC Cincinnati
  • Hillenbrand Inc.

Contact: Robert C Lesan

Tel: 513 579 6939

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Julie T Muething

Tel: 513 639 3870

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Kelley Brandstetter Tracy

Tel: 513 579 6458

Email: [email protected]

Commercial Finance & Reorganization: Represented FC Cincinnati in connection with a private offering valued at approximately $300 million to fund the acquisition of a MLS expansion team and construction of a soccer specific stadium and training facilities.

Key Clients:

  • American Financial Group
  • Fifth Third Bank
  • Multi-Color Corp.
  • Meridian Bioscience Inc.
  • Cintas Corp.
  • U.S. Bank
  • Associated Bank, National Association
  • FC Cincinnati
  • AtriCure Inc.
  • WesBanco, Inc.

Contact: Kelley Brandstetter Tracy

Tel: 513 579 6458

Email: [email protected]

Employee Benefits: Provides practical legal advice to clients regarding a broad spectrum of matters including qualified retirement plans, non-qualified deferred compensation, and health and welfare benefits including corporate transactions, government audits, ACA compliance and HIPAA privacy matters.

Key Clients:

  • American Financial Group, Inc.
  • Cintas Corp.
  • Mercy Health
  • Luxottica
  • US Holdings Corp.

Contact: Lisa Wintersheimer Michel

Tel:513 579 6462

Email: [email protected]

Intellectual Property: Significant experience as in-house IP and Trademark attorneys with global, Large Cap corporations and manage complex, international portfolios. Serves as counsel for Fortune 500 clients, assuming responsibility for major brands’ trademark portfolios.

Key Clients:

  • Cintas Corporation
  • Meridian Bioscience, Inc.
  • Boll & Branch, LLC
  • FC Cincinnati
  • Karisma Hotels & Resort Corporation, Ltd.
  • Worldwide Equipment, Inc.
  • General Cable Technologies Corporation

Contact: J Michael Hurst

Tel: 513 562 1401

Email: [email protected]

Labor & Employment: Unique experience in collective bargaining and labor arbitrations. Assisted many clients, including large Fortune 500 companies, through the Covid-19 pandemic and its far-reaching impact on employment issues. Represents Fortune 500 corporation in all aspects of labor negotiations, labor arbitrations and NLRB matters.

Key Clients:

  • Cintas Corporation
  • GE Aviation & GE Power
  • LSI Industries Inc.
  • Total Quality Logistics
  • Multi-Color Corporation,
  • EssilorLuxottica USA Inc.
  • AtriCure, Inc.
  • Belcan, LLC
  • Corporex Companies, LLC
  • FC Cincinnati

Contact: Lisa Wintersheimer Michel

Tel:513 579 6462

Email: [email protected]

Litigation: Handles matters in several areas including ERISA, antitrust, wage and hour, intellectual property, employment discrimination, product liability/tort defense, real estate, class action and commercial/securities litigation.

Key Clients:

  • Cintas Corp.
  • State of Ohio
  • American Financial Group, Inc. / Great American Insurance Company
  • General Electric / Electric Insurance
  • Total Quality Logistics, LLC
  • Wolf Garretson, LLC
  • Ohio Fresh Eggs, LLC
  • Cincom Systems, Inc.
  • First Financial Bank
  • Rumpke Consolidated Companies

Contact: Steven C Coffaro

Tel: 513 579 6489

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Daniel E Izenson

Tel: 513 579 6480

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Jacob D Rhode

Tel: 513 579 6580

Email: [email protected]

Mass Tort & Insurance Coverage: Pioneered the creation and administration of the nation’s first 524(g) asbestos settlement trust. Serves as general counsel for more than a dozen mass tort bankruptcy trusts, advising them on trust administration, claims processing and resolution, asset management, corporate governance, and taxation.

Key Clients:

  • AWI Asbestos Personal Injury Trust
  • Celotex Asbestos Settlement Trust
  • Quigley Asbestos PI Trust

Contact: Rachael A Rowe

Tel: 513 579 6486

Email: [email protected]

Private Client Services: Sophisticated estate planning strategies and techniques and is very knowledgeable in business succession planning, administration of estates, trusts, matrimonial disputes, guardianships, and income and transfer tax matters.

Contact: Adrienne J Roach

Tel: 513 579 6487

Email:[email protected]

Real Estate/Land Use & Zoning: Experience in all areas of real property law including project finance, land development, New Markets and Low Income Tax Credits, taxation and tax exemption, leasing, zoning, land use, environmental law, economic development, municipal law, taxable and tax-exempt bonds, government affairs, and site selection analysis. Represented FC Cincinnati in the acquisition, entitlements, development and construction documentation for MLS expansion team, practice facility and new downtown stadium.

Key Clients:

  • Rumpke Sanitary Landfill, Inc.
  • Model Group
  • Cintas Corporation
  • AnchorDevelopment, LLC
  • Wesbanco, Inc.
  • Al. Neyer, LLC
  • The Kroger Co
  • Housing Preservation, Inc.
  • Corporex
  • FC Cincinnati

Contact: Kenneth P Kreider

Tel: 513 579 6579

Email:[email protected]

Contact: Barrett P Tullis

Tel: 513 562 1445

Email: [email protected]

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Banking & Finance
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3 Ranked Lawyers
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Banking & Finance
3
Banking & Finance
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Kelley Brandstetter Tracy
2
Kelley Brandstetter Tracy
2
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Shannon Lawson
4
Shannon Lawson
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Jerad Whitt
Jerad Whitt
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Bankruptcy/Restructuring
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Kevin E Irwin
3
Kevin E Irwin
3
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Robert G Sanker
3
Robert G Sanker
3
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Litigation: General Commercial
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Litigation: General Commercial
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Litigation: General Commercial
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James E Burke
1
James E Burke
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Band 1
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Real Estate
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Real Estate
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Ohio: South & Central
Corporate/M&A
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Corporate/M&A
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F Mark Reuter
3
F Mark Reuter
3
Band 3
Julie Muething
4
Julie Muething
4
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Robert Lesan
4
Robert Lesan
4
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