Neal Jacobs has been the Managing Attorney of Jacobs Law Group since its founding in 1999. Neal’s practice is focused on complex corporate, business, and litigation matters. He devotes particular attention to privately held companies and their shareholder and member relations. Neal focuses on complex corporate matters involving the interplay of the rights and obligations of management and the various classes of equity holders and lenders, and others. These include claims of shareholder oppression, squeeze-outs, and freeze-outs of various types.
Neal has built a reputation in the area of business divorce involving the legal maneuvering and claims that are asserted when relations among privately held business owners degrade and become over-contentious. Neal is a frequent lecturer on the topic.
Neal has been frequently called on to solve deadlocks between ownership groups and to craft business-oriented solutions to joint ownership matters. Neal’s corporate practice includes documenting these arrangements as well as negotiating, structuring, and documenting mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures’ private equity and venture capital matters as well as general commercial contracts, and creditor and debtor matters.