Overview
Calfee’s heritage includes a history of assisting entrepreneurs in transforming their innovations into successful companies. Our attorneys focus on helping innovators, entrepreneurs and investors in successfully launching businesses, raising financing and growing their companies.
A number of attorneys in our Corporate and Finance Group have deep experience in offering practical, solution-focused advice, with a business perspective honed from representing clients at every stage of development – from corporate formation, to initial and later-stage financing, to sale, IPO or market leadership. Our firm-wide capabilities and team-oriented approach to service enable our clients to call upon a range of experienced attorneys in a variety of practice areas, including an Intellectual Property group with a breadth and depth of experience that is arguably unsurpassed in our region.
Our attorneys coordinate efficiently and effectively to assist entrepreneurs in properly setting up their companies, reviewing their business plans and identifying key strengths and weaknesses, protecting or licensing core technology, negotiating terms for initial and later-stage financings, preparing key agreements with employees and consultants, structuring equity incentive plans, and evaluating how best to achieve liquidity.
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News & Events
News
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- Cincinnati Business Courier,
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- The Best Lawyers in America, 2025 edition,
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- The International Financial Law Review,
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- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal,
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- World Trademark Reveiw 1000,
- Ohio Super Lawyers,
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- Crain's Cleveland,
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- The Best Lawyers in America, 2024 edition,
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- The International Financial Law Review,
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- Chambers USA 2023 America's Leading Business Lawyers,
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- Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers,
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- Law360 Insurance Authority,
- Crain's Cleveland Business,
- Cincy Magazine,
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- The A Game: An Adcom Podcast,
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- Crain's Cleveland Business,
- The Securities Compliance Podcast Season 3 Episode 14 - The State of the Investment Adviser IndustrySecurities Compliance Podcast: Compliance in Context,
- Ohio Super Lawyers,
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- U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®,
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- Business Insurance,
- Law360,
- The International Financial Law Review,
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- Cincinnati Business Courier,
- Claims Journal,
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- Cincy Magazine,
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- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal,
- Claims Journal,
- Law360,
- Securities Compliance Podcast: Compliance in Context,
- Ohio Super Lawyers,
- Securities Compliance Podcast: Compliance in Context,
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- U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®,
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Journal, October 2021
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- The Best Lawyers in America©,
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- Claims Journal,
- Chambers High Net Worth 2021 Guide,
- Benchmark Litigation,
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- Crain's Cleveland Business,
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- Chambers USA 2021: America's Leading Business Lawyers,
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- Energy Law360,
- Law.com,
- Business Insurance and Claims Journal,
- The BTI Consulting Group, Inc.,
- Calfee's James Sullivan Featured in Two Articles Discussing COVID-19 Business Interruption InsuranceClaims Journal and Carrier Management,
- Cincy Magazine,
- World Trademark Review 1000,
- U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®,
- Benchmark Litigation,
- MCM Capital,
- The Best Lawyers in America©,
- Queen City Angels,
- Workers' Compensation Emerging Issues Analysis,
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- The International Financial Law Review,
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Events
- Calfee's Columbus Office,
- Webinar,
- Savannah Center Cincinnati | 5533 Chappell Crossing Blvd, West Chester Township, OH 45069,
- The Union Club of Cleveland | 1211 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115,
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- Banking, Financial Services and Insurance
- Chemicals
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- Education
- Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP)
- Energy and Utilities
- Entertainment, Media and the Arts
- Food and Beverage
- Gaming and Hospitality
- Health Care
- Individuals and Families
- International
- Manufacturing and Industrial
- Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
- Partnerships, LLCs and Joint Ventures
- Private and Family-Owned Businesses
- Real Estate
- Retail and Consumer Products
- Software and Information Technology
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- Business and Fund Formation
- Business Restructuring and Insolvency
- Commercial Contracts
- Commercial Lending
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- Corporate and Finance
- Emerging Companies and Venture Capital
- Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
- Energy and Utilities Law
- Estate and Succession Planning and Administration
- Franchise Law
- Government Relations and Legislation
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- Intellectual Property
- Labor and Employment
- Liquor and Alcohol Licensing and Regulation
- Litigation
- Privacy and Data Security
- Private Equity
- Public/Private Partnership Law
- Real Estate Law
- State Government Relations and Policy
- Tax Law
- Tort, Accident and Product Liability Litigation
- Trade Secret
- Wealth Management Law