SERVICES
Business counsel built around how owners actually run their businesses.
Gistenson Law advises Illinois business owners on the legal matters that shape day-to-day operations, important commercial relationships, ownership decisions, and significant business transitions.
The firm provides ongoing outside general counsel as well as focused representation for contracts and commercial transactions, business formation and ownership matters, and tenant-side commercial lease review and negotiation.
CORE SERVICES
Legal support for the decisions that matter to your business.
Some clients work with Gistenson Law on an ongoing basis. Others come to the firm for a specific transaction, agreement, or business change. The common thread is practical legal counsel grounded in the realities of running an owner-led business.
OUTSIDE GENERAL COUNSEL
Ongoing legal counsel for established businesses that need a lawyer who can become familiar with the company, its people, contracts, priorities, and recurring legal needs.
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FORMATION, OWNERSHIP & BUSINESS TRANSITIONS
Counsel for sophisticated new ventures, multi-owner businesses, ownership changes, governance matters, restructurings, and planned business transitions.
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CONTRACTS & COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS
Drafting, reviewing, revising, and negotiating the agreements that support a business's relationships with customers, vendors, contractors, partners, and other commercial parties.
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COMMERCIAL LEASE REVIEW
Tenant-side review and negotiation of commercial leases, with attention to both the legal terms and the practical business consequences of the deal.
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HOW WE WORK
Ongoing counsel when you need it. Focused representation when you don't.
ONGOING OUTSIDE GENERAL COUNSEL
For businesses with recurring legal needs, an ongoing counsel relationship provides continuity. Gistenson Law becomes familiar with the business, its people, contracts, priorities, and operations—making it easier to address legal questions in context as they arise.
PROJECT-BASED REPRESENTATION
Not every business needs ongoing counsel. Gistenson Law also works with clients on defined commercial matters, including contracts and transactions, sophisticated formations and ownership matters, business transitions, and commercial lease review and negotiation.
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