Practice Areas

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS, TRANSACTIONS AND LITIGATION

Our business clients have been the core of our practice since Gess Mattingly & Atchison, P.S.C. was founded more than 50 years ago. Our business attorneys draw on the firm's cumulative experience and expertise to provide a broad range of business services to our clients.

Entity Selection and Formation

We counsel with our clients regarding the various considerations involved in the formation of a new business organization. Those considerations include the choice of the business entity that is most suited to our clients' circumstances and objectives, whether that be a partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other form of business entity. We help our clients understand the various alternatives and to make appropriate decisions regarding the selection and formation of their new company.

Operations

The ownership or management of a company entails a myriad of decisions each day. Many of them involve legal issues or have legal consequences for the company. Gess Mattingly attorneys partner with our business clients to address those day-to-day issues to make decisions and develop strategies that will accomplish their long-term goals.

Our attorneys are experienced in a broad range of business transactions, including buying and selling businesses, asset acquisitions and dispositions, mergers, business finance, leveraged buyouts and franchising. We represent clients in a wide range of industries, including securities and financial services, coal mining, oil and gas acquisition and production, insurance, television and radio broadcasting, equine, restaurants, construction, health care and real estate management.

Dispute Resolution and Litigation

Dispute resolution is an important and integral part of our practice. We provide effective representation to resolve our clients' business disputes in a cost-effective manner that accomplishes our clients' objectives.

Our attorneys have extensive experience in all phases of dispute resolution and litigation, including mediation, arbitration, administrative proceedings, trial preparation, jury and non-jury trials, and all levels of appeals. We welcome and have the resources to handle the most challenging and difficult cases, including cases involving complex business and commercial disputes with voluminous records, torts, products liability, employment disputes, personal injury and wrongful death.

Our attorneys practice in all of the state and federal courts in Kentucky and before local, state and federal administrative agencies and boards. In addition, our attorneys have extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution through the mediation and arbitration of a wide range of disputes. The collective experience and expertise of our litigation attorneys provides us the resources to successfully manage and resolve any dispute.

If you need the assistance of an experienced Lexington, Kentucky business organization or commercial litigation attorney, please contact Gess Mattingly & Atchison P.S.C. For over fifty years we have been providing quality legal services to business throughout Kentucky, let our tradition of excellence continue with you.