Our firm brings extensive experience to construction industry legal matters, serving a diverse range of clients including developers, general contractors, construction management firms, project managers, material providers, and subcontractors in many trades.
What sets us apart is our deep understanding of real estate development gained through hands-on industry experience. This practical knowledge enables us to identify potential issues quickly and guide our clients through critical decisions that can transform challenging situations into successful project completions.
We provide comprehensive legal support throughout all construction project phases, with proven expertise at federal, state, and local levels. Our practice addresses the full spectrum of construction law, including:
- Construction contract development and review, ensuring our clients’ interests are protected from project inception.
- Resolution of complex construction disputes involving schedule delays, work disruptions, and project acceleration.
- Navigation of public project challenges, including bid protests and compliance requirements.
- Management of payment security issues through mechanics’ liens and payment bonds
- Guidance on public procurement processes and regulatory compliance.
- Representation in construction defect and warranty claims.
- Counsel on labor requirements and diversity initiatives in construction projects.
- Support for surety bond matters and related claims.
The area of employment law is a constantly changing field, with new legal interpretations and legislation arising frequently. It can be a struggle for employers to stay on top of all of the developments relating to their workforce. We view ourselves as our clients’ business partner and take responsibility to understand our clients’ businesses, their needs, and their priorities, so that we provide practical, individually tailored advice to reach the clients’ goals. The attorneys at Silverang, Rosenzweig & Haltzman have extensive experience both counseling employers as to compliance with the myriad of employment-related laws and representing employers in litigation and administrative proceedings arising out of the employment relationship. Our Employment Practices and Labor Group can assist you with:
Employment Counseling Services
- Advising employers on day-to-day compliance with labor and employment laws and regulations, including the preparation of handbooks and policies
- Developing sound personnel policies that limit liability and enhance productivity
- Training employees to ensure fair and consistent enforcement of personnel policies
- Evaluating reductions in force and issues related to employment termination/severance agreements
Claims of Discrimination and/or Harassment
- Investigating and litigating civil rights and employment claims alleging discrimination and harassment on the basis of age, race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and other areas protected under federal, state, and local law, before governmental bodies (i.e., EEOC, PHRC, Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations) and in state and federal court
Class and Collective Actions
- Defending class, and representative actions involving civil rights, employment and wage and hour claims (including FLSA collective actions and typical class actions)
Employment Agreements, Restrictive Covenants and Trade Secrets
- Designing and enforcing policies and agreements to protect confidentiality and non-solicitation and post-employment competition
- Litigating claims for breach of non-compete agreements, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty, and related torts
Labor and Union Relations
- Counseling, handling, and litigating labor relations issues under collective bargaining agreements, including unfair labor practice proceedings, arbitrations, strikes, picketing, and related injunction proceedings
- Conducting collective bargaining negotiations
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Silverang, Rosenzweig & Haltzman, LLC has a sophisticated commercial litigation practice which encompasses a broad range of subject matters on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants in both Federal and State Court. We are experienced in all facets of litigation and in pre-litigation strategies designed to avoid or minimize the expense and time for court action, including mediations, arbitrations and alternative dispute resolution. Silverang, Rosenzweig & Haltzman, LLC litigation counsel has experience in all aspects of court action. We craft detailed and complex pleadings, conduct all aspects of discovery from document demands and productions through depositions, and we have senior lawyers with extensive courtroom experience “on their feet” in motions, hearings and trials.
Silverang, Rosenzweig & Haltzman, LLC has sophisticated knowledge of the real estate and finance industries and therefore has expertise in litigating loan defaults, foreclosures, lender liability actions, petitions to strike/open judgments and receivership matters. Silverang, Rosenzweig & Haltzman, LLC litigation counsel regularly represents parties in partnership and corporate breakups, shareholder disputes, fraudulent investment cases, employment disputes and general contract and construction matters.
Our legal professionals are prepared to assist you with any of the following matters:
- Breach of contract matters
- Construction and contractor claims
- Covenants Not to Compete and employment disputes
- Defamation, invasion of privacy, and trade disparagement claims
- Defective construction (new and existing)
- Defense of bank foreclosure actions
- Defense of confessed judgments and petitions to strike and/or open confessed judgments
- Fraud, intentional misrepresentation and negligent misrepresentation
- Insurance bad faith claims
- Lender liability claims
- Loan defaults and disputes
- Partnership and Shareholder disputes, business dissolution matters
- Private placement securities and brokerage disputes
- Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) claims
- Real estate matters, including title issues and landlord/tenant disputes
- Receivership prosecution and defense
- Unfair Trade Practice claims
- Wage Payment Act claims
- Will Contests and Orphans’ Court litigation
Silverang, Rosenzweig & Haltzman, LLC lawyers are experienced veterans when it comes to evaluating zoning, land use and environmental regulations. We take pride in finding the most-efficient means to obtain subdivision, land development, conditional use, special exception, and variances approval. We effectively advocate for zoning changes and ordinance text amendments to unlock value for our clients and their investors. We lead due diligence investigations from both the standpoint of transactional attorneys sensitive to the needs of real estate entrepreneurs and as seasoned land use attorneys.
The broad spectrum of experience that our firm brings to a real estate development team provides a solid foundation in all aspects of land use, zoning and regulatory entitlements. We help our clients navigate ever-more stringent land use, zoning, stormwater and environmental regulations. We work closely with our clients so that they understand the challenges of today’s regulatory environment. Our goal is to work through those challenges to bring even the most complicated projects to completion.
Our legal professionals are prepared to assist you with:
- Subdivision and land development
- Special exceptions
- Variances
- Conditional uses
- Zoning text amendments
- Stormwater and environmental permitting
Silverang, Rosenzweig & Haltzman, LLC has the experience and knowledge to help clients with all of their corporate and business law needs, from forming and launching new business ventures to expanding existing businesses and relationships. Whether making the necessary filings to legally form a new company, or drafting private placement offerings for investments in new or expanding business ventures, we provide practical, strategic advice to solve any corporate and business issue to ensure that all objectives and expectations are met in a timely and cost-effective manner.
We represent developers, entrepreneurs and small and mid-size companies with respect to a wide variety of corporate and business law matters. Our legal professionals are prepared to assist you with:
- Forming companies and drafting related organizational documents
- Drafting joint venture agreements
- Drafting private placement investment offerings
- Acquiring and selling existing businesses/companies
- Financing the acquisition of existing businesses/companies
- Financing new business ventures
- Documenting and negotiating subscription lines of credit
- General business counseling
- Resolving employment issues/disputes
- Resolving partnership and other corporate disputes/divorce
Silverang, Rosenzweig & Haltzman, LLC has an extensive practice in managing distressed assets and their attendant debt facilities. We are experienced in creative loan workout and restructuring strategies and in the recapitalization and restructure of private business entities and real estate holdings regardless of size and scope. Silverang, Rosenzweig & Haltzman, LLC also leverages our extensive relationships in the commercial lending, private lending, mezzanine financing and equity/capital raise arenas for the benefit of our clients and to the mutual benefit of the parties to such transactions.
An enormous benefit our firm leverages in our workout and restructuring practice is the ability to transact a successful workout or restructure solution or alternatively, to litigate any unsuccessful workout or restructure construct. Therefore, our loan workout and restructuring capabilities are enhanced by the interplay between our transactional resources and our litigation practice which collectively allow us to keep all aspects of such workout and restructure matters “in house”.
Our firm regularly represents investors, developers, entrepreneurs, mezzanine lenders, financial institutions, investment funds and limited partnerships and related parties in complex debt restructuring and loan workout scenarios and in distressed asset opportunities countrywide.
Silverang, Rosenzweig & Haltzman, LLC is dedicated to providing a full-service experience to fit each client’s real estate needs. Our lawyers handle real estate transactions of all project sizes and types across the country. We are experienced in all facets of the real estate industry, and the legal problems and issues that arise daily (and sometimes hourly!) in completing a real estate transaction. Our firm is a “one-stop shop” capable of taking any commercial or residential real estate project from start to finish. We utilize our knowledge of real estate and practical problem-solving skills to get the job done, whether big or small, efficiently and effectively.
Our firm represents buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, developers, investors and lending institutions with respect to a wide variety of real estate transactions and issues. Our legal professionals are prepared to assist you with:
- Drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements
- Conducting due diligence related to the acquisition of real estate projects, including the review and resolution of title, survey and environmental issues
- Resolving land use and zoning issues
- Debt financing of real estate projects, including acquisition loans, construction loans, mezzanine loans, subscription and other lines of credit
- Financing of real estate projects through the use of New Markets Tax Credits and Historic Tax Credits
- Drafting and negotiating partnership and joint venture agreements, including documenting equity syndications for real estate projects
- Drafting and negotiating construction contracts, architect’s agreements, property and asset management agreements and the like
- Negotiating of industrial, office and retail leases
- Loan restructurings and workouts
