unraveling COMPLEXITY
A business is a complex entity. From startup and incorporation, to maintaining day to day operations and ensuring that your human capital is effectively managed, to resolving internal and external disputes, and possibly to winding down, each facet of your business has its own set of complex rules, regulations and best practices. The attorneys at Murphy & King are skilled at effectively and efficiently unraveling that complexity to ensure that your business can attain its maximum potential.PracticE Areas
Litigation
The Business Litigation Group's mission is simple: to resolve a client’s dispute successfully and economically. We start with a realistic assessment of the case. If the right path is negotiation, we have a long history of mediation and conciliation experience to draw upon. But when the path has to run through a courtroom, our electronic discovery systems and our considerable state and federal trial experience have given clients successful results across the country. In cases ranging from shareholder disputes to claims of commercial fraud to IP disputes to complex contractual claims, we manage a case the way you manage your business—with discipline and a constant eye on how to get to the best, most cost effective outcome. That’s why our trial attorneys are consistently ranked among the best, year after year.
Insolvency
Murphy & King’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group has forged a reputation as a leader in the field, and is currently ranked as one of the top three restructuring practices in Massachusetts by Chambers and Partners. We deploy our skills as negotiators, litigators, and transactional advocates to fit the client’s business needs and objectives as we navigate the fast-paced and often contentious landscape of financial distress. Our attorney team is regularly engaged by debtors, creditors, creditors’ committees, estate fiduciaries, and investors nationwide to represent their interests in a variety of situations, from formal bankruptcy proceedings to out-of-court workouts. Our clients operate across a wide range of sectors, including real estate, hospitality, health care, technology, telecommunications, manufacturing, and retail. The strategic guidance we provide to them is informed by our substantial experience and commitment to sensible solutions. We are also regularly selected to serve in fiduciary and investigative roles such as Chapter 11 or Chapter 7 trustee, examiner, state or federal receiver, and assignee for the benefit of creditors in state proceedings. Our experienced team recognizes the unique challenges, pressures, and risks that arise when a business is in trouble and we make it our business to harness our expertise to maximize value for our clients.
Real Estate
Owners, investors, and tenants of commercial real estate rely on our legal advice to deal with the sale, acquisition, development, transfer, lease of office buildings, retail space, manufacturing plants, and business locations, and to address title, zoning, access, and construction matters that arise in such transactions.Our real estate experience is often called upon as part of merger and acquisition transactions where the lease or transfer of real estate is a valuable component of the transaction. Clients rely upon us to complete real estate financing transactions, permitting them to obtain capital from local and national financial institutions and public agencies, for the acquisition and development of commercial real estate projects.
Corporate
Murphy & King’s Corporate Practice Group provides practical and effective counsel to clients forming and operating business enterprises in a variety of industries. Our lawyers are actively engaged in merger and acquisition transactions, the financing of business operations through debt and equity financing, and the purchase, sale, lease or finance of commercial real estate. With practical legal and business advice, we provide emerging and established businesses innovative and effective solutions to business challenges and the resources to capture and capitalize upon valuable business opportunities.
White Collar Defense & Internal Investigations
The White Collar Defense and Internal Investigation Practice Group provides a unique opportunity for individuals and corporations seeking assistance with navigating the complex landscape of regulatory or governmental investigations, and criminal prosecutions. Our seasoned attorneys have substantial law enforcement and prosecutorial experience, allowing them to offer competitive hourly rates and cost effective staffing, as dictated by the complexity of each matter. In the event a criminal matter proceeds to trial, our experienced trial lawyers are ready to attack the government’s case and provide a top-notch courtroom defense for our clients.Attorneys
Charles R. Bennett Jr.
617 226-3408
Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring
Business Litigation
Insolvency
Litigation
William R. Moorman Jr.
617 226-3423
Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring
Business and Investment Transactions
Corporate
Insolvency
Real Estate
Dan Rabinovitz
617 226-3429
Business Litigation
Litigation
Securities Litigation
State Criminal Defense
White Collar Defense & Internal Investigations
Robert E. Richards Jr.
617 226-3421
Automotive Transactions
Bankruptcy Transactions
Business and Investment Transactions
Community Banking and Mortgage Transactions
Corporate
Real Estate
Bruce F. Smith
617 423-0400 / 212 683-3520
Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring
Business Litigation
Insolvency
