Practice Area Overview:
G&M’s Advertising, Media, and First Amendment Practice Group is comprised of regulatory, transactional, litigation, and IP attorneys who advise clients on defamation, right of publicity, advertising, marketing and promotions, data privacy, first amendment, social media, brand/product launches, and regulator and competitor challenges.
Advertising, Media, & First Amendment Practice
G&M’s Alcohol & Regulated Substances Practice Group represents a wide spectrum of participants in the alcohol and cannabis industries including manufacturers (such as breweries, wineries, distilleries, and grow facilities), retailers (such as bars, restaurants, hotels, chain and local packaged goods stores, and casinos), distributors, importers, and brand owners in virtually all legal aspects of their businesses. This includes not only all business formation, licensing, and operational issues, but also dispute resolution (litigation) and transactional matters.
Alcohol & Regulated Substances Practice
G&M’s award-winning Bankruptcy & Restructuring Practice Group is one of the pre-eminent boutique practices in the nation. G&M’s experienced professionals routinely handle all aspects of corporate restructuring matters – including representing debtors, creditors’ committees, secured and unsecured creditors, and many other parties in high-profile cases across the country.
Bankruptcy & Restructuring Practice
G&M’s Business and Competitive Intelligence Practice Group assists clients with protecting critical intellectual property – advising on key federal and state legislation, business organizational structuring, and data security and privacy. We also create actionable intelligence with the effective sourcing and analysis of data generated from an in depth understanding and application of federal and state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws and regulations. In sum, we not only help clients identify and address legal risks, we also help them identify and exploit competitive opportunities.
Business & Competitive Intelligence Practice
G&M’s Corporate Law Practice Group represents businesses ranging from small start-up organizations to national companies. Regardless of the size of the matter, our philosophy — providing top tier advice and attention to detail in a personalized, accessible, and cost–effective manner — is always the same. From documenting an acquisition or sale to forming an entity or ensuring regulatory compliance, our experienced professionals are here to help.
Business & Corporate Practice
G&M’s Collegiate and Professional Sports Practice Group is headed by Robert Clayton, a former law school dean and an attorney with extensive practical experience in the sports world. Robert and his team are prepared to provide an array of services to meet the diverse needs of collegiate and professional sports entities.
Collegiate & Professional Sports Practice
G&M’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group represents clients in most types of sophisticated commercial litigation. This includes, among other things, disputes relating to contracts and business issues, real estate matters, trusts and estates, class actions, construction issues, copyrights and trademarks, defamation, employment issues, environmental matters, fraud, insurance coverage, mergers and acquisitions, product liability claims, securities, trade secrets, and other complex litigation. G&M’s litigation professionals are also extremely experienced in all forms of bankruptcy litigation, including, but not limited to, preference and avoidance actions, breach of fiduciary duty claims, D&O actions, and claim objections.
Commercial Litigation Practice
G&M’s Trademark and Copyright Practice Group represents a wide variety of clients in connection with branding matters, domain name issues, counterfeiting and Lanham Act disputes, copyright piracy, trademark portfolio management, licensing rights, and marks. Our attorneys help not only with initial filings, but also with transactions and enforcement to help our clients best capitalize on their assets.
Copyright & Trademark Practice
G&M’s Finance Practice Group provides efficient and practical legal counsel in connection with all types of complex lending transactions. This includes traditional commercial real estate and asset based lending as well as tax exempt financing such as federal new markets tax credits. G&M also has extensive experience with 7(a) and 504 lending programs administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Finance Practice
G&M’s Food and Beverage Practice Group leverages years of industry experience to help food and beverage companies increase revenue, grow brands, and build their businesses. Our attorneys can assist in virtually every portion of the business cycle, including not only on the operational front – such as with advertising and promotions, trademark and copyright issues, licensing, and real estate development and leasing – but also with non-ordinary course issues such as resolving and/or prosecuting litigation claims, obtaining financing and equity investment, selling the business or purchasing assets, and even with creditors’ rights and bankruptcy issues.
Food & Beverage Practice
G&M’s Labor and Employment practitioners help clients navigate the ever-evolving landscape of US, state, and local laws and regulations that govern the workplace. They have diverse and in-depth experience in representing clients in workplace matters related to traditional labor and employment law, including but not limited to day-to-day counseling, policy development and implementation, collective bargaining, internal investigations, best practices to avoid litigation and, when necessary, representing clients before state and federal courts and agencies in arbitrations, administrative proceedings, and class and collective action cases.
G&M attorneys pride themselves on understanding the unique, industry-specific statutory, regulatory and competitive pressures their clients face and providing them with practical advice that achieves business needs while ensuring legal compliance
Labor & Employment Practice
G&M’s Real Estate Law Practice Group regularly represents developers, builders, contractors, corporations, investors, owners, and tenants in a wide variety of real estate–related matters. In addition to assisting with commercial closings and otherwise helping to facilitate and close deals for clients, G&M’s professionals have vast experience helping clients get back on track when projects do not go as planned.
Real Estate Practice