Chad is a shareholder and member of the firm’s Business Practice Group. His practice focuses on working with privately held businesses and their owners, assisting them with the various legal issues they face in operating their business on a day-to-day basis. This includes legal issues businesses have in dealing with their customers, vendors, suppliers, competitors, and employees, and the laws and contracts governing those relationships. 

As part of his practice, Chad has considerable experience in Mergers & Acquisitions working with businesses that are going through transition events such as mergers, acquisitions, and sales. He has represented numerous clients in deals ranging from $100k up to $22M.

An area of concentration for Chad has been assisting corporate clients that are involved in dealership/distribution and franchise models, and counseling them on the unique contractual and business issues they face as dealers/franchisees. Over the past 15 years, Chad has worked with well in excess of 300 different dealership/franchise models.

Chad prides himself on providing efficient, practical legal advice, and developing long lasting relationships with his clients. He strives to obtain an intimate knowledge of his clients businesses' to help ensure their continued success going forward.

Chad Assists Clients With

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• General business organization and structuring
• Commercial contract negotiation and drafting
• Franchise and dealership legal matters
• Real estate and litigation matters involving businesses and franchises

Representative Client Work

• Completed a $19,000,000 sale-leaseback transaction for a regionally based service business
• Lead counsel on the purchase and sale of numerous local and regionally based businesses in transactions ranging from $100,000 to $25,000,000
• Worked with well over 300 different dealership and franchise models across the U.S. and Canada in varying product and service based industries for both business-to-business and consumer based businesses
• Assisted franchisors with legal compliance and contractual matters in both registration and non-registration states