Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  The Firm has maintained an extremely active practice in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) for over two decades, achieving a regional reputation in this challenging area. The Firm’s success has been driven largely by its deep collective knowledge and experience in M&A transactions, and the wide variety of legal matters that must be addressed therein, including taxation, corporate, finance, employee benefits, real estate, environmental, due diligence, and, where necessary, litigation. The Firm’s M&A clients include both businesses that the Firm represents on a regular basis, as well as buyers and sellers that hire the Firm for transactional representation. On occasion, the M&A transaction includes a private placement of equity or debt and the Firm is very experienced in this aspect of M&A. The Firm’s M&A practice covers a wide variety of sectors, such automobile dealerships, Farm equipment dealerships, fertilizer companies, environmental companies, industrial companies, franchise/distribution businesses, health care entities, medical and other professional firms, ESOP companies, and casino and video gaming companies.
• Business Disputes
  Elias, Meginnes & Seghetti, P.C. is a business law firm that has been successfully serving clients for over 20 years. The Firm is the successor of the business law department of the Peoria office of a Chicago-based national law firm that had about 400 lawyers. The Firm has been AV-Rated by Martindale and Hubbell for many years.
• Limited Liability Companies
• Intellectual Property

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
• Employment Litigation

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  The Firm’s Real Estate Practice includes a very active real estate transactional and leasing component all over the State of Illinois, as well as servicing the real estate component of the Firm’s M&A practice. In addition, the Firm for over 15 years has served as real estate counsel to a major national retailer and shopping center developer, including the development of over 50 shopping centers and serving as lead counsel for the development of distribution centers for that retailer.
• Construction Litigation
• Land Use and Zoning

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  The Firm has an active Estate Planning Practice, servicing mainly closely-held businesses and their owners. Services include family planning both from a business succession and estate and gift tax perspective involving, among other things, the use of inter-vivos and testamentary trusts, family limited partnerships (LLCs), and other techniques, as well as various post-mortem tax strategies.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  A majority of the client base of the Firm consists of closely held businesses and their owners, each of whom has a wide array of legal issues that need hands-on attention at a reasonable cost. Many of the Firm’s clients have been with the Firm for many years, principally because the Firm has the required core competencies not usually found in a law firm of its size and because The firm consistently strives to exceed clients’ expectations. The core competencies of the Firm include general business law, corporate representation, mergers & acquisitions, taxation law, estate planning, employee benefits, health plans, business litigation, real estate law, environmental law, healthcare law, municipal law and development and loan transactions, workouts and foreclosure.
• Tax Law
  Tax dispute resolution before the Internal Revenue Service and state tax authorities, as well as tax litigation before the Tax Court and other federal and state courts.