Top best Business Lawyers Near me in ZIP 46802

Zach’s practice areas include:• Elder Law, Estate Planning & Wills• Long term care planning, medicaid & veterans benefits• Real Estate Transactions (residential & commercial)• Business formation• Probate & non-probate transfers

My law practice focuses broadly on trust and estate matters in both the planning and administration stages.  My practice includes income tax, in addition to, transfer tax planning.  I represent corporate and individual fiduciaries outside of court and also before the court for various matters including petitions for instruction, modifications, approval of accounts or termination and discharge.  I also represent beneficiaries of trusts or estates to assert beneficial interests in property and damages for breaches of trust.  I represent petitioners in guardianship proceedings to obtain court authority to help an incapacitated person.  I am licensed to practice law in both Indiana and Ohio and before the United States Tax Court.  I am board certified as an Indiana trust and estate lawyer by the Trust and Estate Specialty Board.  I am AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.. I have extensive accounting and tax background from my education and work experience more than a dozen years before I became a licensed attorney.  A natural progression of my passion for problem solving continues today in helping individuals plan their estates, helping with administration issues and effectively avoiding (or efficiently resolving) disputes or disagreements along the way.

Michael Moellering is a partner with Burt Blee. His primary practice areas include business and corporate law, nonprofit/exempt organizations law, employment law, real estate and land use planning. Michael has given presentations to various professional organizations and private client groups on the topics of corporate and employment law matters.. Michael has been active in the community for many years. Presently, he serves as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors for the Foellinger Foundation. He also volunteers time with Lutheran Social Services, a nonprofit organization that provides those marginalized by society with a second chance through job training. Michael has also served as a member of the YMCA Metropolitan Board of Directors, a member of the School Board for St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran School, and a member of the Community Advisory Council and the Board of Directors for the Hoosier College Preparatory Program of Taylor University.. After graduating from Taylor University in 1987, he participated in the management his family’s business, Moellering Construction Co., Inc., a regional heavy highway construction corporation. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Valparaiso University School of Law in 1992. While attending law school, Michael served as the first Chief Justice of the Moot Court Society, was a member of the National Moot Court Team, and a Regional Champion and National Finalist in the National Negotiation Competition. Additionally, he was the recipient of the Corpus Juris Secundum Award from the School of Law in 1992.

Michael Michmerhuizen focuses his practice in the areas of business litigation, appellate law, and insurance defense. He has participated in more than 50 appeals and has argued cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the Indiana Supreme Court, the Indiana Court of Appeals, and the Indiana Tax Court.

Kevin is a sage and experienced counselor and strategist. A litigator at heart, Kevin has fought for clients in over 300 jury trials. With a Master of Laws through the U.S. Army JAG Corps from a top eight law school, Kevin gets results for his clients with a reputation and track record that is par none. Kevin is a certified civil case mediator, focusing on cases in his areas of practice, and a certified Sports Agent.

Jeff Woenker counsels clients on business transactions, general corporate matters, federal and state taxation, and tax controversies. Jeff’s experience includes entity formations, corporate mergers, tax-free liquidations, asset and stock purchases and dispositions, and resolution of accumulated earnings tax appeals. Also, he has assisted in various incorporations of non-profits.

I am a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Bishop Dwenger High School. I was fortunate enough to receive an Evans Scholarship for college from my experience as a caddie and academic standing. I utilized my business degree by working for Lincoln Financial Group in its Fort Wayne Reinsurance Department before beginning law school. Prior to joining the firm, I had the opportunity to clerk for the Honorable Judge Craig Bobay and the Honorable Judge Thomas J. Felts for Allen Circuit Court in Fort Wayne and to work in the Corporate Legal Affairs Division of Luxottica Retail in Mason, Ohio.  I am trained in Collaborative Law to compliment my domestic relations area of practice for dissolutions.

I am a business lawyer with the Fort Wayne, Indiana law firm Barnes & Thornburg, LLP. My practice consists of counseling businesses — in legal and business issues — in the growth and success of their ventures. There is really no area of business law I don’t do (with the exception of patent prosecution), but my passion is for mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, real estate transactions and other transactions involving the buying, selling and expansion or winding down of business. Within those types of transactions are many areas of law — including, tax, employment, real estate, trademark, copyright, licensing, franchising and nonprofit law.

Bose Mckinney Evans LLP attorney Ronald J. Ehinger practices out of the Fort Wayne office of the Indianapolis based firm. He  focuses his practice in the areas of business and commercial law, including business acquisitions and dispositions, contracts, commercial transactions, and real estate. Ron’s practice also includes intellectual property law with a concentration on trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and licenses.

Attorney Zachary Klutz focuses his practice on general business and corporate matters, with a primary focus on mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements, and business planning and structuring. With a secondary focus on municipal finance, he serves as bond counsel, borrower’s counsel, and underwriter’s counsel in taxable and tax-exempt bond and note issues for public and private issuers.

Anne Simerman focuses her practice on counseling corporations and other business entities in a variety of business-related matters, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, and commercial transactions. She also counsels business entities on SEC reporting and regulatory compliance as well as banks and non-bank financing entities on creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, and regulatory compliance.

An associate attorney with Barrett McNagny, Sarah L. Wladecki counsels corporate clients regarding transactions, mergers and acquisitions and general business matters.. A member of the Allen County Bar Association, Sarah has been active locally in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana Lunch Buddy program and the Volunteer Lawyer Program of Northeast Indiana. She currently serves on the board of The Franciscan Center. During law school, Sarah participated in the Georgetown University Law Center Domestic Violence Clinic as a student attorney counseling and representing victims of domestic violence in the Washington D. C. Superior Court.. She earned her B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 2007 and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2015. Prior to attending law school, Sarah worked as Vice President for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, an NBA Development League Professional basketball team. Sarah is admitted to practice before the Indiana state courts and the U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in Fort Wayne and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in Fort Wayne and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in Fort Wayne and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in Fort Wayne and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in Fort Wayne and surrounding areas.

Experienced Business attorney serving clients in Fort Wayne and surrounding areas.