Business Legal Services
Stern & Eisenberg provides full-service legal support for businesses, focusing on secured transactions, financial and real estate legal services, corporate matters, and litigation. The firm assists lenders, investors, corporations, and business owners in navigating complex legal landscapes.
Business Practice Areas
With a multi-state footprint, strategic business development, and a commitment to client success, Stern & Eisenberg delivers tailored legal solutions that protect assets, mitigate risks, and drive business growth.
Our firm stands out for its deep legal knowledge, strategic insights, and commitment to understanding each client’s unique goals. We don’t just solve problems, we anticipate them, offering proactive counsel that drives success. With a focus on excellence, efficiency, and personalized service, Stern & Eisenberg is your partner in navigating the legal complexities of the business world.
Business Formation and Structuring
We guide clients through the process of establishing and organizing the best legal structure for their business goals (e.g., sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, LLC) ensuring the optimal structure for operational efficiency, tax benefits, and legal protection.
In addition our general business practice is further supported by our expertise in business and commercial litigation, as well as real estate matters, enabling us to address all your business needs effectively.
Our approach combines deep legal knowledge with creative problem-solving to address your unique challenges and achieve your goals.
Stern & Eisenberg specializes in business law, corporate law, contract law providing clients with tailored legal solutions to support their personal and professional ventures. Whether forming a new business, negotiating contracts, or navigating complex corporate transactions, our experienced attorneys deliver strategic guidance and meticulous attention to detail, ensuring your interests are protected and your goals are achieved.
Business Law
Business Law encompasses the legal aspects related to running a business. Our team of attorneys advise on compliance with regulations, drafting contracts, handling mergers and acquisitions, managing employment matters, and protecting intellectual property. We work closely with our clients to ensure that their companie(s) operate within the legal frameworks of local, state, and federal laws.
Corporate Law
Corporate Law: Our attorneys provide strategic advice on corporate governance, shareholder rights, mergers and acquisitions, compliance with securities laws, and the fiduciary duties of directors and officers, and other corporate matters to help clients effectively navigate the complexities of running and expanding their businesses.
Contract Law
Contract Law: We draft, review, and negotiate contracts to ensure that our clients’ agreements are clear, enforceable, and aligned with their business objectives.
Business Divorce
Business Divorce: S&E attorneys provide a high level of legal expertise when identifying nuances and intricacies that are key in many cases when addressing various business legal, operational and financial challenges.
Business divorce refers to the legal process of separating business partners or co-owners, often involving disputes over business ownership, valuation, buyouts, and the division of assets and liabilities. This area focuses on resolving conflicts amicably or through litigation to protect the interests of the parties involved.
These can include:
- Dividing assets and liabilities
- Determining the value of each partner’s share in the business
- Negotiating buyouts
- Handling client or customer relationships
- Safeguarding a smooth transition or closure of the business entity
Stern & Eisenberg evaluates the significant processes that impact the partners, employees, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders connected to the business.
Litigation
Stern & Eisenberg delivers strategically oriented litigation services tailored to the needs of businesses, creditors, and organizations. Our attorneys handle a wide range of complex disputes with a client-centered approach focused on efficiency, innovation, and practical outcomes.
Our litigation services include:
- Commercial Litigation – Contract disputes, corporate governance issues, fraud, financial conflicts, and regulatory compliance
- Bankruptcy Litigation – Creditor representation in all bankruptcy chapters, asset protection, claims disputes, and fraud investigations
- Business Litigation – Breach of fiduciary duty, business torts, fraud, negligence, and complex commercial disputes
- Class Action Litigation – Representation of plaintiffs or defendants in consumer rights, product liability, and employment-based class actions
- Complex Litigation – High-stakes, multi-party disputes involving intricate legal and factual issues requiring tailored legal strategies
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Partnership Disputes
This practice area focuses on resolving conflicts between business partners, whether in the formation, operation, or dissolution of a partnership. Partnership disputes may involve disagreements over management decisions, financial contributions, profit-sharing, breach of fiduciary duties, or exit strategies.
Real Estate Transactions, Acquisition, and Sale
At Stern & Eisenberg, our Real Estate Transactions, Acquisition, and Sale services provide comprehensive legal support for buying, selling, leasing, and financing real estate properties. Our team handles drafting and reviewing contracts, conducting thorough due diligence, navigating zoning and regulatory compliance, and managing every aspect of closings, ensuring seamless and successful property transactions for our clients.
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Steven K. Eisenberg
Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Managing Shareholder
Steven P. Kelly
Managing Attorney Pennsylvania & Bankruptcy, Shareholder