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Practice Areas

The Giordano Firm provides multi-specialty legal representation, focusing on collaboration between attorneys across practice areas. We bring together the best legal resources to produce results with outstanding value for our clients. Our core strengths are in various practice areas that provide an in-depth range of services to meet our clients' needs.

Community Association Law
Construction Law & Litigation
Corporate & Business
Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy
Environmental
Government Affairs
Government Investigations & White Collar Crime
Health Care
Intellectual Property & Technology
International Adoption
Labor & Employment
Land Use & Development
Leasing
Litigation
Matrimonial & Family Law
Medical Fraud & Abuse
Real Estate, Redevelopment and Planned Real Estate Development
Renewable Energy
Securities
Site Remediation
Tax
Trusts & Estates

Business & Banking Law

The attorneys in the Business & Banking Practice Area represent clients in all areas of banking, business, commercial leasing and real estate transactions. Our clients include corporations, partnerships and business entities, as well as the individual entrepreneurs in all types of businesses and investments. Our attorneys focus on strategies and solutions to find creative and economically practical solutions to assist our clients in accomplishing their goals and avoiding legal issues.

Corporate & Business

The attorneys in the Corporate and Business Practice Area provide strategic, transactional and ongoing legal counsel for emerging and established companies in diverse commercial sectors. Our clients include public and privately held companies, partnerships, limited liability companies and individual entrepreneurs in all types of businesses and investments.

Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy

The attorneys in the Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy Practice Area provide guidance and counsel to business, institutional and individual clients in issues involving reorganization, receivership and insolvency, and resolving both their own financial affairs and difficulties as well as dealing with those of their clients and customers. Our diverse client base includes Fortune 500 companies, small to mid-size businesses, lenders of all types, as well as fiduciaries and consumers.

Environmental Law

Giordano Halleran & Ciesla's Environmental Practice Area boasts several of New Jersey's leading authorities on environmental law with experience and in depth knowledge of the network of local, state and federal environmental laws and regulations. We provide environmental counsel to residential and commercial builders and developers, including numerous Fortune 500 public and private companies.

Government Investigations &
White Collar Crime

The Government Investigations and White Collar Crime Practice Area provides representation to corporations, directors, officers, and individuals in a wide variety of federal and state proceedings. Our attorneys have represented businesses ranging in size from small family-held companies to large multi-national corporations.

Health Care

The attorneys in the Health Care Practice Area counsel clients on a broad range of problems, integrating traditional legal principles with the special body of federal and state law governing the health care field.

Intellectual Property & Technology Law

The attorneys in the Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Area counsel clients on a broad range of intellectual property and technology issues offering innovative solutions in intellectual property, Internet, e-commerce, privacy and licensing, and also human resources and employment, venture capital, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, and securities law matters specific to clients' needs in these areas.

Labor & Employment

The attorneys in the Labor & Employment Practice Area represent clients on all aspects of traditional labor and corporate employment law matters. We recognize that employers are challenged by an ever-changing legal landscape when it comes to labor and employment laws that regulate the workplace. Our attorneys focus on strategies and solutions to find creative and economically practical ways to assist our clients in accomplishing their goals and avoiding legal issues.

Litigation

The attorneys in the Litigation Practice Area are devoted to pursuing the claims of and defending the rights and interests of our clients in various commercial, contract and regulatory disputes and in collateral business related matters.

Real Estate, Redevelopment & Planned Real Estate Development

The attorneys in the Real Estate, Redevelopment and Planned Real Estate Development Department guide developers, landowners, builders and lenders through the intricate regulations, requirements and policies governing the approvals and permitting process at the state, county and municipal levels. We have experience in every phase of acquisitions, financing, development, redevelopment, planned development and leasing.

Land Use & Development

The attorneys in the Land Use & Development Practice Area guide developers, landowners, builders and lenders through the intricate regulations, requirements and policies governing the approvals and permitting process at the state, county and municipal levels.

Trusts & Estates

The attorneys in the Trusts and Estates Practice Area counsel clients on all aspects of estate and retirement planning, including federal and state tax issues, business succession strategies, deferred compensation arrangements, and wealth transfers. Our clients include individuals, families, fiduciaries, and private businesses, many with complex legal issues concerning retirement planning, wealth transfers, estate administration, fiduciary litigation and taxation issues.

Construction Law & Litigation

With almost every construction project comes a multitude of legal issues that can affect the success of your project. To be successful, you need a law firm that can effectively handle any and all construction issues in a timely and cost-effective manner. Our Construction Law and Litigation practice assists home builders, general contractors, owners, subcontractors, community associations, engineers, architects, insurance contractors, bond companies and all other public and private companies with regard to the numerous matters that arise before, during and after the construction process.

Medical Fraud and Abuse

Giordano Halleran & Ciesla�s Health Care Fraud Practice group offers a full range of services relating to legal issues that confront health care providers in maintaining corporate compliance and in responding to governmental and payor investigations and inquiries. GH&C has represented hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, nursing homes, home health care providers, durable medical equipment suppliers, physicians, laboratories, rehabilitation facilities, and medical transportation providers (including BLS/ALS) in a number of State and Federal matters involving fraud and abuse issues.

International Adoption

The attorneys in the International Adoption Practice Group understand that the rewards of a successful international adoption can be endless, but the challenge of attaining those rewards can seem daunting. Our attorneys have the experience and ambition necessary to overcome these challenges and leave their clients rewarded.

Renewable Energy

The attorneys in the Renewable Energy practice area advise an array of clients including developers, contractors, land owners, lenders, installers and investors who are deeply involved in the development and commercial implementation of renewable energy. The attorneys in the Renewable Energy practice area have substantial experience in areas of real estate, land use, environmental, redevelopment, corporate/business, finance (private and public), tax, and intellectual property. This breadth of knowledge allows the group to delicately handle complex and unique problems arising in connection with renewable energy projects.

Community Association Law

The attorneys in the Community Association Law practice area serve clients throughout New Jersey counseling condominium and homeowners associations regarding all facets of community living from transition matters to the ongoing development and daily operation of the community. Our attorneys assist in matters including, but not limited to, drafting and negotiating service contracts, conflict resolution, assessment collection procedures, interpretation of governing documents and representation of the community before all local and state agencies.

Government Affairs

Today�s business clients can be subject to extensive requirements of many government agencies. There are highly detailed regulations, particularly in the areas of building and development, banking, health care, insurance, tax and the environment, all of which impact on business. On their behalf, GH&C�s Government Affairs attorneys interact with these administrative agencies. Previous government service and legal and business experience provide the expertise to anticipate agency responses to many situations and to achieve results favorable to the client.

Tax

Giordano Halleran & Ciesla�s tax practice group provides sophisticated and cutting-edge tax advisory services to publicly-traded companies, closely-held businesses, and high net-worth individuals in New Jersey and throughout the U.S. We advise our clients as to how they can structure their transactions to reduce their tax burdens while complying with federal, state, and local tax laws and regulations. We also represent our clients before the IRS and state tax authorities � to resolve tax law issues, negotiate settlements, and challenge assessments of interest and penalties.

Leasing

The attorneys in the Leasing Practice Group are equipped to deliver solutions to all types of leasing matters. They represent a wide array of clients, working with tenants and landlords in all forms of real property lease transactions in the retail, office and industrial sectors, including, for instance, ground leases, building and space leases, sale-leasebacks and subleases.

Securities

The attorneys in the Securities Practice Area counsel clients in all aspects of federal and state securities laws and regulations. We assist clients in the raising of capital in the private and public markets, including the preparation of private offering documents and prospectuses required in connection with the private and public sale of securities.

Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. | Red Bank, NJ | Trenton, NJ | www.ghclaw.com | 1-800-842-1LAW

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