Our manufacturing lawyers have represented manufacturers throughout the United States in their diverse needs for decades.

Stites & Harbison's data security attorneys are ready to assist you with your compliance, incident response, or litigation needs.

Stites & Harbison is well-situated to advise business enterprises wishing to relocate or expand in Tennessee, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; and the firm prides itself on the breadth and depth of its neighborhood revitalization experience, particularly in the area of affordable housing.

The trademark attorneys at Stites & Harbison serve a diverse clientele worldwide and have extensive experience helping clients secure and protect their trademarks.

Stites & Harbison's patent prosecution lawyers have prosecuted patent applications covering a wide range of technologies.

The Biotechnology and Life Sciences Technology attorneys at Stites and Harbison focus on intellectual property protection of all aspects of biotechnology and life sciences.

With eleven offices in six states through the Southeast, Stites & Harbison's Real Estate and Banking attorneys serve health care centers, hospitals, long-term care facilities, nursing homes, and physician office complexes.

Stites & Harbison’s employee benefit attorneys counsel health care clients in matters including COBRA health plans, cafeteria plans, other employee group plans such as VEBAs, and employee fringe benefit plans. Stites & Harbison's employee benefits group helps private-sector, tax-exempt, and governmental employers develop, implement, and maintain qualified pension plans.

Like any businesses looking to grow, health care facilities of various types require, at times, assistance with commercial real estate and public debt financing. We also provide a full range of merger and acquisition (M&A) services to our health care clients.

We understand the unique and complex challenges and protocols of clinical research and clinical trials.

Our attorneys advise and represent clients in workout negotiations, default and foreclosure and actions in state courts and in contested matters and adversary proceedings arising under Chapters 7, 11, 12 and 13 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.

Stites & Harbison’s Construction Contract attorneys draft, review, and negotiate contracts for design and construction.

Stites & Harbison's white collar criminal defense litigation attorneys in Kentucky assist clients in the development and implementation of compliance programs, facilitate cooperation with government regulators across jurisdictions, and are poised to handle the most challenging of defenses on behalf of a client in trials, hearings and appeals.

Stites & Harbison's State and Local Tax (SALT) litigation attorneys are the "go-to" people for SALT controversies in Kentucky.

Stites & Harbison's real estate litigation attorneys have developed strong practices in eminent domain, land title defense, planning and zoning, and litigation involving the preservation of historic properties.

The skills exemplified by Stites & Harbison attorneys – excellent writing and analysis, and the ability to present matters in an interesting and understandable manner tailored for a variety of audiences – make our attorneys superb advocates for their clients in all aspects of litigation, including post-trial motions and appellate advocacy.

The attorneys of Stites & Harbison’s Tax Group assist a variety of clients (corporations, estates, exempt organizations, individuals, limited liability companies, partnerships, trusts and universities) with tax planning and litigation on the federal, state and local levels.

Stites & Harbison's mergers and acquisitions attorneys regularly represent acquirers, targets, financial advisors and other parties in transactions ranging from small, privately negotiated transfers of shares or assets to acquisitions involving public companies.

Stites & Harbison’s Employee Benefits Group advises clients on all aspects of employee benefits law. We have assisted clients in the design, implementation and operation of all types of employee benefit plans including qualified retirement plans (e.g. 401(k) and defined benefit plans), non-qualified executive deferred compensation plans, equity based arrangements, 403(b) and 457(b) plans, ESOPs and welfare benefit programs.

Economic Development, most commonly thought of as the creation of jobs, is the life blood for any state or local government. At the same time, corporations, looking to relocate or expand existing operations, aggressively seek incentives to help ease the financial burden of these initiatives.

An important part of the firm's securities practice is assisting clients with their disclosure and reporting obligations under the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act and the exchange listing requirements. Stites & Harbison's securities attorneys review and assist in the preparation of periodic reports, proxy statements and news releases for public clients and advise and assist directors and senior executives of the firm's public clients in connection with their reporting and compliance obligations under Section 16 of the 1934 Act.

Stites & Harbison's public offering experience ranges from public debt and equity offerings for investment-grade issuers to initial public offerings for entrepreneurial and emerging growth companies. The firm assists start-up and development stage companies in structuring venture capital and private equity investments.

Stites & Harbison offers clients firsthand knowledge and daily contact with the inner workings of state regulatory agencies and lawmakers in Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia and Tennessee. The firm has offices located in three states' capitals and has a reputation for providing ready access and strong contacts.

Stites & Harbison regularly helps both individual and institutional clients with the negotiation and structuring of equity joint ventures, and with the formation of limited-liability companies and general and limited partnerships.