Practice Areas
Our attorneys concentrate in practice areas which together make up the general practice of business law. For more information, please click on the links below.
Banking and Finance.
Our banking and finance attorneys have decades
of experience representing local community banks, national banks and
international lenders and other financial institutions.
Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights.
The attorneys in our bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice area
represent secured and unsecured creditors, lessors, creditors'
committees and bankruptcy trustees in bankruptcies, workouts,
foreclosures and creditors' rights litigation.
Corporate.
BHF corporate attorneys are focused on the needs of emerging and
established privately-held businesses.
Employment and Labor.
We have 25 years of experience handling labor and employment matters
in Massachusetts and other states, involving both litigation and client
counseling designed to avoid litigation.
Estate Planning and Administration.
We have many years of experience in drafting estate planning
documents, including wills and trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts,
qualified personal residence trusts, charitable trusts, life insurance
trusts, generation-skipping trusts, and other estate planning
documents.
Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Our litigation attorneys are seasoned trial lawyers with experience
in jury and jury-waived trials as well as administrative hearings,
arbitration and appeals. We also counsel clients on the best strategies
to avoid costly litigation.
Real Estate.
We represent owners, lenders, tenants, buyers, and developers of
virtually every type of commercial real property. We provide legal
counsel at each step of what are often complicated, multi-party
transactions.
Tax.
We provide advice with respect to a wide variety of federal and state
tax issues, including issues related to business formation and
operation, executive compensation, tax-deferred exchanges, acquisition
and sale of businesses and the transfer of business interests through
gifts, bequests, installment sales, redemption agreements, and buy-sell
agreements.