- Divorce
- Child Support
- Child Custody and Visitation
- Adoption
- Paternity
- Premarital Agreement
- Spousal Support
- Annulment
- Corporate LawMacfarlane Ferguson & McMullen’s commercial lending attorneys represent a variety of lenders in a high volume of transactions in virtually all types of capital markets and lending transactions. Our market-savvy attorneys work with clients to identify their financial demands, provide resourceful and innovative solutions, and structure deal teams from our diverse group – all with a focus on exceptional service. To provide our clients with a full range of services in this area, the attorneys on our Commercial Lending team partner with members of our other distinguished practice groups devoted to business and corporate law, bankruptcy, litigation, and real estate.
- Mergers and AcquisitionsMacfarlane Ferguson & McMullen regularly counsels clients in the area of mergers and acquisitions. Our Firm’s attorneys provide comprehensive legal services respecting stock and asset sales and acquisitions, recapitalizations, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, credit financing, workouts, private equity and venture capital transactions, and joint venture relationships.
- Business TransactionsWe represent clients on any number of matters, including entity formation and general business and governance matters to complex and sophisticated taxable and nontaxable commercial transactions in Florida, the U.S., and internationally. Specifically, our team’s experience includes the following areas...
- Limited Liability CompaniesAt Macfarlane Ferguson, our attorneys provide high-quality, practical, and solution-oriented general corporate counseling, advice and services to a wide range of private corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, private equity firms, and entrepreneurs in any number of matters. Our team is committed to understanding the client’s business, priorities, preferences, and becoming an integral part of the business team.
- Trade Secrets
- Antitrust
- Employment LitigationOur labor and employment department has represented both public and private employers of all sizes, from small family-owned businesses to large multi-state corporations, in employment litigation, including class and collective actions. Our employment attorneys have handled cases in multiple state and federal jurisdictions outside of Florida including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. We also have successfully represented clients before local, state and federal administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Florida Commission on Human Relations and the Florida Public Employee Relations Commission.
- Real Estate LitigationReal estate law continues to change as growth, water supply, industry, agriculture, and infrastructure needs compete for available resources. Environmental concerns have a much greater influence on real estate transactions today than in the past. Financing arrangements have become more sophisticated and the national and international financial markets have resulted in large transactions becoming increasingly complex. Small transactions are subject to greater regulation with disclosures and federal requirements affecting nearly all property transfers and developments. Increased regulatory and permitting requirements for all transactions add time and expense to developments of every type and, if not addressed correctly, can have substantial adverse impacts on the developments.
- Real Estate TransactionsMacfarlane Ferguson & McMullen’s real estate practice is conducted by attorneys with a broad base of experience in virtually all areas of real property law. The Firm’s attorneys have assisted clients with various aspects of real estate transactions, including representing sellers in large sales of raw land to governmental entities, creation of mitigation banks, and tax deferred exchanges. They have assisted with the financing, acquisition, development and leasing of marinas, sports arenas, condominium developments, planned communities, office towers, retail centers, apartment complexes, ranches, and agricultural uses.
- Land Use and ZoningLand use and local government law has evolved dramatically over the last ten years as Florida has struggled to cope with unprecedented growth and heightened environmental concerns. A diminishing of governmental resources during the same time has placed a mounting share of the burden of accommodating growth on the private sector. Thus, the regulatory maze which must be negotiated whenever real estate is developed has become ever more difficult and complex. As anyone who has dealt with Florida’s development of regional impact, comprehensive planning and quasi-judicial zoning procedures will acknowledge, the State’s land use system is complicated.
- Citizenship and Naturalization
- Medical MalpracticeMacfarlane Ferguson & McMullen’s Attorneys have extensive experience providing full-service representation to health care systems, hospitals, clinicians’ practices, and individual health care providers. The Firm’s attorneys regularly assist clients with a broad range of issues including compliance and risk management, issues related to CMS and JCHAO, licensing, billing and collections, HIPAA and state privacy laws, and other issues unique to the health care industry. Our representation of health care providers includes commercial litigation, defense of medical malpractice claims, administrative proceedings, formation of entities, mergers, acquisitions, and all forms of commercial transactions. The Firm represents a variety of for-profit and not-for-profit health care providers, including hospitals, home health agencies, ambulatory surgery centers, large multi-specialty or single-specialty physician groups, as well as individual physicians and ancillary businesses operating in the health care industry. The Firm’s attorneys take a multi-disciplinary approach to our health care clients because of the vast array of legal issues facing health care providers today.
- Estate PlanningThe attorneys of Macfarlane Ferguson & McMullen have developed an extensive practice in the areas of wills, trusts and estates, representing multiple generations of long-term clients in this now very sophisticated area. Our attorneys are actively involved in advice and representation pertaining to, and preparation of documentation for, simple or complex wills involving trusts and estate planning within their terms, inter vivos revocable and irrevocable trusts, family limited partnerships, life insurance or wealth transfer trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, charitable remainder annuity or unitrusts, and other available plans to implement a client’s goal to transfer assets, while simultaneously seeking to minimize estate or other succession taxes.
- WillsIn addition to creating plans for distribution and implementing those through the preparation of documentation and transfer of assets, the Firm also represents corporate and individual fiduciaries, estate and trust beneficiaries, or others having an interest in an estate or trust situation where litigation is threatened or instituted. The Firm has attorneys experienced in prosecuting or defending will and trust contests, construction of documents and judicial proceedings involving changes to charitable trusts to reflect changes in the law or in the appropriate beneficiaries or fiduciaries.
- TrustsAs the oldest law firm in Florida, the attorneys of Macfarlane Ferguson & McMullen have developed an extensive practice in the areas of wills, trusts and estates, representing multiple generations of long-term clients in this now very sophisticated area. Our attorneys are actively involved in advice and representation pertaining to, and preparation of documentation for, simple or complex wills involving trusts and estate planning within their terms, inter vivos revocable and irrevocable trusts, family limited partnerships, life insurance or wealth transfer trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, charitable remainder annuity or unitrusts, and other available plans to implement a client’s goal to transfer assets, while simultaneously seeking to minimize estate or other succession taxes.
- Probate
- Tax LawAdvise clients on formation and operations of entities for both tax planning and state law compliance issues, and drafting business documents to achieve client objectives.