Galanter Tomosovich · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Practice
Three disciplines, practiced at partner level and nothing less.
I. Corporate & Business
Counsel for the life of an enterprise
Corporate & Business
Formation · Capital · Governance · M&A
We counsel privately held companies at every stage of their life, from the first organizational document to the closing of a sale.
The work begins with structure. We help owners choose and design the entity that fits the business, balancing tax exposure, liability, and the flexibility that growth and future transactions demand. From there we serve as ongoing counsel on governance, regulatory compliance, and the questions that surface between milestones.
When capital is needed, we structure and negotiate private investment and institutional financing, and we prepare every document the raise requires. When opportunity or succession arrives, we lead mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures from diligence through closing, bringing the project management and commercial judgment that complex transactions demand.
And when partners disagree, we resolve shareholder and ownership disputes with a preference for the efficient solution over the expensive one. Where litigation cannot be avoided, we represent our clients through it with the same practical discipline.
II. Oil & Gas Corporate
Appalachia and beyond
Oil & Gas Corporate
Transactions · Leases · Disputes
We represent operators, service companies, pipeline and midstream interests, and the investors behind them.
Our attorneys have structured and closed acquisitions, divestitures, and mergers of energy companies and assets throughout the Marcellus and Utica shales and in producing basins beyond Appalachia, including the markets of Wyoming and Montana.
The transactional work runs from joint ventures, joint operating agreements, and development agreements to master service agreements, conveyancing, and the purchase and sale of producing interests. We negotiate the leases and easements that underlie the work, and we counsel clients through the regulatory landscape that surrounds it.
Where disputes arise, whether over a lease, a midstream commitment, a construction claim, or an environmental matter, we bring both the industry knowledge and the litigation judgment the situation requires.
III. Commercial Transactions
The agreements that carry a business
Every business runs on its agreements. We write them to be enforced, not merely signed.
The firm drafts and negotiates the full range of commercial agreements: purchase and sale of assets and equity, commercial leases for office, industrial, and retail space, loan and security documents, licensing, and the service arrangements that bind companies to their customers and suppliers.
We approach every agreement from the client’s side of the table but with the other side’s reading in mind. The result is a document that anticipates dispute instead of inviting it, written in language a businessperson can act on without calling a lawyer to translate.
When commercial relationships strain, we negotiate resolution first. Where a courtroom is unavoidable, we arrive prepared, with the transaction documents we would have written standing behind us.