Roetzel & Andress, LPA

Chairman/CEO: Robert E Blackham

Number of partners: 127

Number of other lawyers: 75

Firm Overview:

Roetzel is a full service law firm with offices located throughout Ohio and Florida, as well as in Chicago, Illinois, and Washington, D.C. The firm provides comprehensive legal services to national and international corporations, closely held businesses, government entities, organizations and individuals on a regional, national and international basis.

Main Areas of Practice:

Business Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Commercial Law:

The firm assists clients in transactions, multi-party negotiations and litigation concerning the financing of their operations, business reorganization, and debt restructuring, as well as their commercial relationships with customers and vendors. Handles issues arising under the Bankruptcy Code and state receivership statutes, as well as those arising under the Uniform Commercial Code, including sales of goods, leases, checks and negotiable instruments, loan transactions, letters of credit, and security interests and liens.

Corporate, Tax & Transactional:

The firm’s corporate, tax and transactional attorneys provide experienced counsel to clients throughout all stages of business strategy, development, and corporate governance. As trusted advisors, the firm’s attorneys work with clients and in-house counsel to address the challenges and opportunities associated with the formation, operation, and growth of all types of organizations in all stages of growth. The firm’s clients include publicly traded and closely held businesses, middle market and emerging businesses, private equity investors, management groups, banks and financial institutions, investment funds, individuals, governmental entities, entrepreneurs, and nonprofit organizations, including hospitals and universities. The firm represents a wide range of sectors, such as polymers, robotics, medical services, restaurants, information services, steel processing, automotive manufacturing, real estate, and transportation.

Employment Services:

The firm’s labor and employment attorneys counsel and represent public and private companies, public sector entities and nonprofit organizations across the entire spectrum of labor, employment and human resource issues. The firm works cooperatively with in-house counsel, executive-level managers, public officials, risk management professionals and human resource departments in handling all employmentrelated issues.

Environmental:

The environmental practice group at Roetzel is experienced in providing counsel to clients regarding all aspects of environmental law. The firm is able to address the vast array of environmental laws and issues that impact the daily operations of businesses and public entities – from large corporations and small businesses to local governments and individuals. The firm’s attorneys represent clients in administrative, civil, and criminal environmental enforcement matters, permitting proceedings, regulatory negotiations and rulemaking matters.

Government Relations:

The Roetzel government relations team provides clients with innovative solutions to immediate business issues improved by legal and political solutions. When desired, the firm assists clients with developing client specific programs focused for participating in the political system. With personnel strategically located in the state capitals of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, the firm’s government relations group has immediate access to government officials and bureaucratic regulators and decision makers. The firm represents its clients’ interests before state legislatures, administrative agencies, and executive branches of state governments, while also focusing on procurement services at every governmental level.

Health Care:

Roetzel's health care attorneys address broad legal needs of health care clients including organizational design, regulatory compliance, HIPAA and patient privacy issues, reimbursement, corporate financing, labor and employment, real estate, taxation and employee benefits, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and litigation, among others. Well-versed in government and industry-sponsored reform initiatives, regulatory restrictions on compensation and other financial arrangements, reimbursement concerns and other issues affecting the ways in which clients do business.

Real Estate:

The firm’s team of real estate, land use and construction attorneys offers comprehensive representation to real estate developers, commercial and institutional owners, and a myriad of established and growing businesses to provide solutions for property investment, development and management, as well as finance. The firm’s local, regional, and national clients include: public and private companies; REITs; financial institutions; investment funds; architects, engineers and contractors; public homebuilders; landlords and tenants; developers; marinas; retailers; universities; homeowner cooperative and condominium associations; public sector and governmental entities; and utility companies.

Transportation & Logistics:

Representation of transportation and logistics service providers by the firm’s experienced transportation practice group includes corporate matters, labor affairs, contract negotiations, real estate transactions, the implementation and coordination of immediate response teams, civil litigation in all federal and state courts and advice regarding compliance with existing federal and state laws, as well as proposed and pending legislation.