Practices: Corporate and Securities

The lawyers in the Corporate and Securities Group have extensive experience handling sophisticated and innovative mergers and acquisitions for corporate clients and private equity funds, corporate finance transactions, securities regulation matters, debt restructurings, venture capital financings, derivative products, and other commercial matters. We act as lawyers and valued business advisors. Our clients also believe that our department is very unique because of our expansive relationship with the investment banking and intermediary community. We proactively obtain a fundamental understanding of each client’s business and objectives and apply the focus and breadth of our experience to help achieve its goals. All of the aforementioned elements combine to provide our clients with unparalleled service.

Premier Corporate Counsel
Our Corporate and Securities group is one of the largest and most highly regarded among midsized law firms in the Midwest, serving clients throughout the U.S. and internationally. Chambers and Partners, the premier law firm ranking agency, names the Ungaretti & Harris Corporate and Securities group as one of the elite corporate practices in Illinois. The following statement was made by Chambers USA 2011 about Ungaretti & Harris:

“This Chicago firm is a respected midmarket player and the corporate and securities department attracts a healthy flow of M&A mandates. Gary Levenstein chairs the corporate and securities group and has expertise in corporate governance and finance. Clients appreciate that, ‘he's a great technical attorney but also a businessman, so it's like having a consultant too.’”