Practice Areas

Refined Skills and Experience

From our founding, we have provided sophisticated services in several practice areas that correspond to the needs of our clients.

Bankruptcy

Rath Young and Pignatelli’s Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group deploys its skills and experience to negotiate, itigate, and provide transactional advice to meet our clients’ needs and objectives in distressed commercial situations

Business and Finance

The Business Finance Group is comprised of highly experienced and qualified transactional, real estate and business attorneys, most of whom have specialties in various industries.

Education / Nonprofits

Our experience in education and nonprofit law focuses on the corporate, regulatory, legislative, liability, tax and employment aspects of private secondary and postsecondary education, as well as nonprofit organizations throughout New Hampshire and northern New England.

Energy And Utilities

We have extensive experience in the energy industry, ranging from representation of developers of power generation projects and purchasers of power on the wholesale market to utility regulation.

Environmental

Negotiated on behalf of a municipal client to secure a unique NPDES General Permit governing nitrogen discharges from wastewater into the Great Bay Estuary.

Financial Institutions

We aggressively represent a wide range of financial institutions in New Hampshire and the surrounding states. We do so accurately and pragmatically, based upon our understanding of the demands of federal and regional regulators and the specific compliance/regulatory challenges faced by our individual client.

Government

In today’s world, proper attention to the interface between business and government is critical to success. Our Government Relations team is comprised of seasoned professionals with diverse talents, experiences and relationships.

Healthcare

Many of our attorneys have experience in the public and private health care sectors, as members of Boards of health care non-profits and as commentators and participants on important health care policy issues.

Labor and Employment

We regularly represent employers in the negotiation of complex executive compensation agreements. In addition, with the assistance of our corporate and insurance teams, we are able to offer employers guidance related to employee benefit plans, as well as the development and implementation of equity incentive compensation plans.

Litigation

Our attorneys have wide experience evaluating, negotiating, and trying cases in state and federal Courts in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine.

Real Estate

Clients include real estate developers, commercial lending institutions, private lenders and investors, and corporate clients engaging in real estate transactions

Tax

We approach each client’s needs as if our professionals were members of its internal tax and finance team. In each matter, our goal is to understand the client’s business objectives and to plan options that make the tax laws work to support those objectives, not against them.

BANKRUPTCY

Rath Young and Pignatelli’s Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group deploys its skills and experience to negotiate, itigate, and provide transactional advice to meet our clients’ needs and objectives in distressed commercial situations

Business and Finance

The Business Finance Group is comprised of highly experienced and qualified transactional, real estate and business attorneys, most of whom have specialties in various industries.

Education / Nonprofits

Our experience in education and nonprofit law focuses on the corporate, regulatory, legislative, liability, tax and employment aspects of private secondary and postsecondary education, as well as nonprofit organizations throughout New Hampshire and northern New England.

Energy And Utilities

We have extensive experience in the energy industry, ranging from representation of developers of power generation projects and purchasers of power on the wholesale market to utility regulation.

Environmental

Negotiated on behalf of a municipal client to secure a unique NPDES General Permit governing nitrogen discharges from wastewater into the Great Bay Estuary.

Financial Institutions

We aggressively represent a wide range of financial institutions in New Hampshire and the surrounding states. We do so accurately and pragmatically, based upon our understanding of the demands of federal and regional regulators and the specific compliance/regulatory challenges faced by our individual client.

Government

In today’s world, proper attention to the interface between business and government is critical to success. Our Government Relations team is comprised of seasoned professionals with diverse talents, experiences and relationships.

Healthcare

Many of our attorneys have experience in the public and private health care sectors, as members of Boards of health care non-profits and as commentators and participants on important health care policy issues.

Labor and Employment

We regularly represent employers in the negotiation of complex executive compensation agreements. In addition, with the assistance of our corporate and insurance teams, we are able to offer employers guidance related to employee benefit plans, as well as the development and implementation of equity incentive compensation plans.

Litigation

Our attorneys have resolved major personal injury claims for injured victims in accident cases.

Real Estate

Clients include real estate developers, commercial lending institutions, private lenders and investors, and corporate clients engaging in real estate transactions

Tax

We approach each client’s needs as if our professionals were members of its internal tax and finance team. In each matter, our goal is to understand the client’s business objectives and to plan options that make the tax laws work to support those objectives, not against them.