Attorneys

Mr. Coletti's practice is concentrated in the corporate, securities and financing areas where he has extensive experience in forming joint ventures, initial public offerings of securities, and mergers, acquisitions and divestitures representing both public and closely-held corporations.

Mr. Fershtman's practice is concentrated in the areas of representing closely held companies, particularly entrepreneurs in equity and private venture transactions, ongoing operations and divestitures, corporate mergers and acquisitions, taxation and estate planning

Mr. Gardner's practice is concentrated in tax law, including representation before the IRS, tax litigation, excise tax and income tax fraud, estate planning and general tax matters, closely held businesses, real estate, real estate syndications, choice of business entity corporations and finance transactions.

Bill Keating practices in the business representation & transactions practice group. He practices primarily in the area of corporate and business law representing publicly traded and privately held businesses and also practices in business succession planning, executive compensation and estate and tax planning.

Mr. Mellen's practice is concentrated in the estate and succession planning and estate and trust administration areas. He also has extensive experience in the taxation and commercial transaction areas, with an emphasis on corporations, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial transaction structuring issues.

Mr. Rouse is the leader of the Private Client Services Group.  The major areas of his legal practice include estate and succession planning, general corporate representation (including mergers and acquisitions), probate and trust administration and tax related services. 

Mr. Sims practices in the business representation & transactions practice group. He works primarily in the federal income tax, business planning and health care areas.

A partner at Keating Muething & Klekamp since 1987, Mr. Matthews now serves in the Of Counsel capacity for the firm’s Commercial Finance Practice Group. His practice focuses on bank transactions, institutional and fund lending and a variety of complex financing transactions.

Ms. Cox practices in the firm's business representation and transactions practice group. She represents privately-held and publicly-held companies on a variety of business transactions, including entity formation, manufacturing and distribution, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate governance.