Stoll Keenon Ogden’s Business Services Group combines skilled practitioners, decades of experience, and innovative business practices to help our clients excel in a complicated and changing marketplace. These practitioners represent disparate skill sets working synergistically to develop appropriate solutions to challenges confronting our clients. The firm represents clients involved in a broad range of business activities and has the personnel and experience to help our business clients achieve their legal objectives.

The Business Services Group is comprised of attorneys working together in several related practice subgroups listed below. These practice subgroups allow us to take a comprehensive approach to the legal needs of our clients. Rather than isolated practice areas operating with limited information, this structure encourages multi-level collaboration among our attorneys to help ensure efficient and favorable legal outcomes for the firm’s clients.

Banking and Corporate Finance

Equine

Healthcare

Intellectual Property

Mergers & Acquisitions

Public Finance

Securities and Corporate Governance

Our banking and corporate finance subgroup provides a variety of services to financial institutions, including the preparation of documents for loan transactions, compliance with state and federal banking regulations, the formation of bank holding companies, enforcement of creditors’ rights including within bankruptcy proceedings, and participation in both takeover and anti-takeover proceedings. Additionally, our business attorneys prepare filings on behalf of our clients that are required under federal and state banking laws and regulations as well as help these clients comply with other banking, securities and other laws regulating their business activities and operations.

Stoll Keenon Ogden is a leader in the practice of equine law, having provided worldwide equine law services for more than 75 years. Whether our equine client’s issue involves financing, syndication, industry organizations, taxation, or any other aspect of equine law, we have the requisite experience to ably assist these clients in the particular transaction.

Our firm has decades of healthcare law experience. We represent numerous healthcare providers and supporting entities, both for-profit and non-profit entities, and which include hospitals, physician groups, long-term care facilities and other providers and professionals throughout the healthcare spectrum. The services rendered by our healthcare attorneys for these clients include preparing formation documents and other contracts, resolving licensure issues and defending investigations conducted by governmental agencies and authorities.

Our intellectual property subgroup handles intellectual property matters with the creativity and discretion that they deserve. We assist our clients in obtaining and protecting their valuable intellectual property including patents, trademarks, trade names, copyrights, domain names, service marks and trade secrets. Our attorneys have filed and defended patent applications both within the United States as well as in foreign countries throughout the world. We also routinely represent clients in both prosecuting and defending intellectual property disputes. From the very inception of an idea, we assist our clients every step of the way in helping to protect and maximize the value of their creativity.

Whether our clients are acquiring or selling a business, our mergers and acquisitions subgroup has the knowledge and experience to assist in the structuring of the particular transaction, the preparation and negotiation of the relevant transaction documents, and the closing of the deal. We work closely with our professionals and our clients in analyzing the tax consequences of these transactions to help avoid unnecessary and unexpected tax results for our clients. Our mergers and acquisition attorneys have represented clients involved in all sectors of the economy.

The public finance subgroup of the firm had its origins in the former firm of Harper, Ferguson & Davis, a Louisville firm which merged with Ogden Newell & Welch PLLC, a legacy Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC firm, on April 1, 2002, and which for many years had concentrated in the practice area of tax-exempt financing for governmental units in Kentucky. The firm has a long history of serving as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, tax counsel and issuer’s counsel in connection with both tax-exempt and taxable bond issues and other municipal financings in Kentucky. We have participated in most types of municipal finance transaction in the Commonwealth that are qualified for tax-exempt financing, including serving as bond counsel in numerous issuances and refundings of tax-exempt bonds, and we are thoroughly familiar with the provisions and application of Kentucky law, the Internal Revenue Code and regulations, revenue rulings and procedures issued thereunder relating to tax-exempt securities and applicable federal and state securities laws and rules. The firm is conscious of disclosure and due diligence requirements under both federal and state securities laws and works closely with our clients in complying with the requirements of those laws.

Our securities law subgroup routinely assists clients in preparing documents that must be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as various state agencies and authorities. We routinely advise clients as to their rights, duties and responsibilities under federal and state securities laws. Our securities attorneys have litigated numerous cases involving disputes between offerors and offerees of securities as well as between investment firms and clients, including cases that involved claims grounded in fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and violations of federal and state securities laws.