Krevolin & Horst, LLC

Firm Overview:

Krevolin & Horst is a boutique business law firm comprised of highly credentialed former partners and associates from some of the largest US and international firms. The firm consists of 27 attorneys, including 12 partners, 4 of counsels, and 11 associates. K&H’s lawyers attended many of the top law schools including Yale, Columbia, Penn, Michigan, Georgetown, Virginia, Emory, and Georgia.

Eleven of 15 litigators clerked for federal judges (four for Court of Appeals judges and seven for District Court).

The business model is to offer BigLaw talent with the responsiveness, agility, and cost effectiveness of a smaller firm. K&H’s practice is a sophisticated B2B practice encompassing appeals, business litigation, commercial real estate, corporate, corporate governance/business divorce/officer & director liability, education, election, employment, franchise, healthcare, intellectual property/unfair competition, internal investigations, mergers & acquisitions, securities, technology, and white collar. K&H represents a wide array of clients from individuals, to small to mid-cap, to Fortune 500 companies. Most of K&H’s work originates from other lawyers—either inhouse, judges, or law firm referrals. Since K&H is recognized as the lawyers’ law firm, it has the privilege to frequently represent lawyers and law firms. K&H also works with many large, international firms on a local counsel basis. A high percentage of K&H’s lawyers annually are recognized by various legal rankings and publications.

K&H is diverse. Seven of K&H’s 15 litigators are women including four partners, and three are diverse. K&H lawyers are active in the community serving on the boards of a variety of organizations such as Atlanta Legal Aid, Georgia Association of Women Lawyers, and the Urban League of Greater Atlanta.

Practice Descriptions:

Business Litigation

K&H has one of the top litigation practices in Atlanta, seeded with exceptionally talented and credentialed business trial lawyers. The team handles everything from class actions to individual cases. Krevolin & Horst lawyers regularly try cases before federal and state courts and arbitration panels. Because of Krevolin & Horst’s deep and broad expertise in arbitration, mediation, and trials, the team can assist clients in selecting the most appropriate mechanism for each dispute, understand the process, and secure outstanding results.

Commercial Real Estate

K&H’s highly skilled real estate team provides more than just legal advice. The firm’s real estate attorneys are dealmakers with decades of diverse and substantive experience. Our attorneys work with owners, developers, and lenders on acquisitions, capital raises and funding, divestitures, development, joint ventures, ground leases, and permanent and construction financing for multi-family housing, retail, commercial, senior and assisted living, and industrial properties in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast.

Corporate Governance & Business Divorces

K&H’s corporate governance practice focuses on advising officers, directors, and shareholders about their rights and obligations, drafting effective shareholder and limited liability company agreements and representing parties in corporate governance disputes. The attorneys routinely prosecute and defend suits relating to corporate governance matters, valuation, shareholder disputes, and officer and director liability.

Corporate Transactions

K&H provides advice in a broad range of transactions, for both buyers and sellers, including leveraged buy-outs, management buy-outs, strategic acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, capital reorganizations, carve-out transactions, and joint ventures. The firm has experience representing private equity funds, companies growing by acquisition or strategically divesting assets or divisions, and private investors seeking to purchase businesses.

Education Law

The firm helps charter schools, higher education institutions, networks, and education service providers with starting nonprofit tax-exempt corporations, board governance, bylaws, school policies, discipline, contracts, employment-related issues, internal investigations, and diversity and equity initiatives.

Election Law

K&H has the preeminent election law practice in Georgia.

Employment Litigation

K&H advises employers and employees concerning a broad spectrum of employment law issues. The firm’s transactional lawyers regularly negotiate employment agreements and severance packages for high level managers and executives. K&H’s litigators advise clients about employment agreements and regularly defend federal and state employment law claims.

Intellectual Property/Unfair Competition Litigation

K&H regularly litigates trade secret, trademark, and copyright issues. Virtually every member of the team has trial/hearing experience and a federal court clerkship background allowing for a candid, realistic perspective on how a court is likely to handle infringement claims and securing preliminary injunctions against competitors as well as defending such matters.

Internal Investigations

K&H typically handles multiple internal investigations contemporaneously. These investigations assess the risk of liability to an organization and its individuals. The attorneys also provide proactive compliance programs, identify problematic areas, recommend measures to prevent recurrence, provide advice during criminal or regulatory investigations, and vigorously defend clients in court when necessary.

Technology

K&H has experience assisting clients in negotiation, documentation, and implementation of a variety of transactions involving the development, acquisition, licensing, and sale of software and technology as well as outsourcing arrangements for our clients involving software development, training, service, call centers, and data processing facilities.

White Collar

K&H litigators are well known for their trial experience and continue to be sought out in some of the most complicated and large-scale criminal cases brought by the government. The firm has more than 30 years of complex trial experience and has former federal prosecutors leading this team.