Post Polak counsels national and locally-based clients in the hotel and restaurant industries as well as alcoholic beverage distributors, manufacturers and retailers on a wide range of issues in the alcoholic beverage and hospitality fields. Our practice includes coordinating and processing liquor license transfer applications, license application amendments and license renewals (whether multiple unit applications for national hotel and restaurant chains or applications for individual proprietors), assuring compliance with other regulatory reporting requirements, appearing before regulatory agencies and courts on alcoholic beverage and hospitality-related matters (including compliance matters) and providing ancillary real estate, leasing and land use counseling.
Navigating the complex laws governing the alcohol beverage industry requires more than just an understanding of the applicable laws and regulations. It also requires an understanding of the dynamics of the federal, state and local agencies who enforce those laws and regulations. We pride ourselves on our knowledge of those dynamics and further on our ability to forge a positive working relationship with those agencies and their personnel. To help in this process we have assembled a team of alcoholic beverage attorneys and staff who have considerable backgrounds both in the private and public sectors of alcoholic beverage law practice. This includes Jerry Fischer, who served as the Director of the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control between 2000 and 2012, and J. Wesley Geiselman who served as Counsel to the Director of the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control for many years.
Also of critical importance to members of the alcoholic beverage industry is an understanding of proposed legislation and regulations that will affect the industry. Our attorneys not only make it a point to be aware of regulatory and legislative developments but also to be active in adding to the industry’s voice in suggesting regulatory or legislative changes or commenting on proposed laws and rules. Towards this end, Doug Sherman and Jerry Fischer participate in the Director’s Advisory Committee which is a group of industry representatives selected by the Director and, at his request, provide him with input and opinions on significant issues facing the industry.
Post Polak’s Corporate & Business Law practice combines the broad perspective required to understand both the apparent and subtle ramifications of decisions concerning the businesses of our clients, with the breadth of experience necessary to advise on the most sophisticated issues and applications of law. We understand that each business has its own unique challenges, needs and goals. Our team of attorneys is committed to providing our clients with legal assistance and guidance tailored to meet their particular demands.
In its representation of a diverse client base, Post Polak utilizes its extensive cross-industry experience in business and transactional matters to guide its clients through an evolving marketplace and legal system. Whether it is advising a client on day-to-day business decisions or structuring a complex transaction, our firm is committed to providing efficient and effective counsel that helps each client achieve its business objectives.
In addition to the broad base of knowledge and experience our corporate attorneys possess, we take an interdisciplinary perspective and work closely with our other practices to serve our clients. We consider such an approach vital, since structuring commercial transactions or counseling companies cannot exist in a vacuum. For example, our corporate attorneys are alert to exposing clients to environmental liability and work with our firm’s land use team and, when necessary, our litigators, to assess and address such concerns and circumstances. Working together, our practice groups seamlessly provide effective solutions for all of our clients’ corporate commercial concerns.
We service a wide range of clients in a variety of industries, including technology, banking and finance, retail, medicine, staffing and personnel placement, service, manufacturing, investment, energy, real estate, fashion and entertainment. We also address the corporate needs of our municipal clients.
The corporate and commercial transactions services we provide to our clients encompass a number of areas, including:
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