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Nicholas C. Zagotta is a principal of Roberts McGivney Zagotta LLC. His practice includes the representation of municipalities, construction firms, physical fitness centers, chemical, manufacturing and distribution companies, real estate developers, professional athletes, hospitals, individuals, religious orders, commodities firms, securities firms, individual traders, and a multitude of other varied business entities extensively in corporate, as well as in litigation matters. He was the lead attorney for the plaintiff in Homeyer v Stanley Tulchin and Associates, (91 F.3d 959 (1996)), a seminal case in determining who is "disabled" as defined within the Americans with Disabilities Act. Prior to practicing law, he was the principal of Zagotta Grain, a commodity trading firm. He served as a guest lecturer at the Coceral Grain Conference in Bruges, Belgium, and at the Futures Research Symposium in Rome, Italy. He has been an expert witness in many commodity and futures cases. He currently serves on the John Marshall Law School Board of Trustees and has served on various community and corporate boards, including the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Transit Authority and the Western Golf Association. He is licensed to practice in Illinois and Georgia.

Mr. Goldman is the Founder and Managing Partner of Navigator Law Group, a boutique law firm focused on corporate and international projects including M&A, securities, technology transactions and significant work with start-ups and angel investing groups. He also represents private and family owned businesses in the restructuring of ownership interests and governance relationships.. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in economics (minor in mathematics) and then obtained a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School (Order of the Coif and cum laude). Following a clerkship for a federal judge in San Francisco, he spent the first 15 years of his career in New York City where he practiced corporate, securities and M&A law with among others Cleary Gottlieb, a leading Wall Street law firm (including several years in their Paris office). While in New York, Mr. Goldman also established a merchant bank, Abacus & Associates LP, where he was a Managing Director and General Counsel.. After returning to Chicago, he spent 15 years at Altheimer & Gray where he Chaired both the Corporate and International Departments and eventually became Co-Chairman of the Firm. At Altheimer & Gray, he opened 10 offices overseas and hired and was responsible for 500 people including 165 lawyers, building a new business for the firm. He opened the first US law office in Warsaw and obtained one of the first licenses for a US law firm in China in Shanghai.. Mr. Goldman served on the Investment Committee of four investment funds ($14 million in total) established by Altheimer & Gray to make private equity, venture capital and real estate investments. He was also a Co-Founder of JustWrite EMR, an electronic medical records start up. He has served as a mentor and a judge for the College New Venture Challenge at the University of Chicago since its inception in the 2012-2013 Term, where he has given both legal and business model advice. He was also a mentor and judge at the inaugural 3 Day Startup Competition at the University of Chicago in 2014. Mr. Goldman participated in the 2010 Hapak Seminar on Entrepreneurship of the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago.. He was a long-standing member of the Board of Trustees of the Ravinia Festival and the Board of Directors of the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera, and is on the Board of Trustees of the Glencoe Public Library, a Commissioner on the Glencoe Plan Commission, a founding member of the Chicago China Sister Cities Committee and a member of the Board of the Misericordia Family Association.. Mr. Goldman is admitted to practice in Illinois, New York and California.

Michael A. Zalay practices in the area of corporate law. He represents a variety of clients covering a wide range of industries with regard to their transactional and contractual needs. Mr. Zalay’s experience includes formation, corporate governance, acquisition and disposition matters, capital raising transactions, private offerings as well as the structuring and negotiating of distribution and supply agreements, manufacturing agreements, service agreements, reseller agreements, purchase and sale contracts and commercial and retail leases. Mr. Zalay represents multiple restaurant and nightclub owners in all aspects of their businesses. He has represented lenders and borrowers in the drafting, reviewing and negotiating of loan documents for both real estate and asset based transactions. In addition, Mr. Zalay provides many clients ongoing legal consultation as "part-time" general counsel.. Mr. Zalay is a member of the American, Illinois and Chicago Bar Associations. He also serves as a board member of the Medical Research Junior Board Foundation (MRJBF) of Children's Memorial Hospital. Mr. Zalay has been named as an “Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star,” which touts the state's top 2.5% of up-and-coming attorneys under the age of 40.

Joseph is known for his ability to make sophisticated legal issues and tax planning understandable and is highly regarded for his devotion and commitment to the diverse needs of business clients. Joseph represents corporations, partnerships and tax-exempt entities, as well as family-owned and other closely-held businesses, and their owners. He also represents high net worth individuals, lottery winners and professionals, including doctors, lawyers, accountants and wealth management advisors.. Joseph advises his corporate and business clients on critical financial, tax and business matters, including entity structure and formation, and asset ownership for asset protection and tax savings. He also assists closely-held and family-owned businesses and their owners with business succession planning for wealth preservation and to transition the business/ownership to younger generations and key employees. Joseph offers his individual clients a full range of estate, trust and tax planning services, from the drafting of wills, complex trust agreements and advanced wealth-preservation plans, to the formation of family foundations and other philanthropic entities to accomplish charitable objectives.. In addition to income and estate tax planning, a significant portion of Joseph's tax practice involves representing individual, business and corporate clients in administrative tax-controversy matters before the Internal Revenue Service and the Illinois Department of Revenue. Joseph is frequently asked by banks and financial consultants in the Chicago area to speak on wealth preservation, tax and estate planning, and business succession.. When not finding solutions to meet his clients' needs, Joseph enjoys spending time with his wife Karen and children Dominic, Gianna, Mia, Isabella and Vincent.

David Pogrund has recently been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Chicago Booth MBA program teaching a course entitled "Employment Law for Entrepreneurs and Managers".  (September, 2015)