Jeffrey A. Adams

Leaders in Law endorses Jeffrey Adams as our exclusively recommended Business Law expert in Indiana, USA. If you wish to get in touch with Jeffrey please use the contact information provided above.

With over 20 years of experience, Jeffrey provides legal advice in the areas of estate planning, real estate, and tax for his clients. He joined Cohen Garelick & Glazier in 2003 with a passion for assisting his clients in navigating the complexities of the law and arriving at successful resolutions.

In his free time, he enjoys playing golf and tennis and traveling.

Practice Areas

  • Business Law
  • Business Organizations and Commercial Transactions
  • Business Planning
  • Business Tax Planning
  • Employment Law
  • Estate and Probate Administration
  • Estate Planning
  • Individual and Fiduciary Taxation
  • Real Estate Law
  • Tax
  • Transaction Law

Education

  • Indiana University School of Law, JD
  • New York University School of Law, LLM
  • Indiana University, BA

Bar Admissions

  • Indiana

Published Works

  • Why Come to Training Camp Out of Shape When You Can Work Out in the Off-Season and Lower Your Taxes: The Taxation of Professional Athletes, 1999

Professional Affiliations

  • Indiana State Bar Association
  • Indianapolis Bar Association

Firm Description:

Cohen, Garelick & Glazier is a corporation of attorneys at law based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

With a century-old foundation in law combined with the competence of our attorneys, we are prepared to serve a full range of legal needs for all seasons of life.

We believe that good relationships with our clients and with the community around us allow us to serve you better. We’re here to walk you through your legal affairs and answer your questions as they arise.

Additionally, we deeply value our communities. Many of our team members serve local organizations as officers, board and committee members, and volunteers in order to be involved with the community around us.

Our relationships with you and with the community are vital in helping us serve you. We are your law firm for life!

 

David Blachly

Leaders in Law endorses David Blachly our exclusively recommended M&A Law expert in Indiana, USA. If you wish to get in touch with David please use the contact information provided above.

David Blachly is an experienced business lawyer who represents middle-market and growth companies, their owners and management, entrepreneurs and investors. His areas of expertise include business organization, capitalizations, acquisitions and sales of businesses, succession planning and joint ventures. His clients come from diverse industries, including IT consulting, software development and distribution, internet-based businesses, manufacturing and professional services.

David has also been involved in the insurance industry for nearly forty years, representing insurance companies, agents and brokers, third-party administrators and others in transactional, corporate and regulatory matters.

David is a graduate of Villanova University and Indiana University’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He has been recognized as an Indiana Super Lawyer by Law and Politics Magazine and a Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers. He is a past chairman for the Business Law Section of the Indianapolis Bar Association.

Education

  • Villanova University – (B.S., Accounting, 1980)
  • Indiana University – Robert H. McKinney School of Law (J.D., 1986)

Affiliations/Recognitions 

  • Best Lawyers in America
  • Indiana Super Lawyers
  • Past Chairman, Business Law Section, Indianapolis Bar Association
  • Metropolitan School District of Washington Township
  • Natatorium Task Force (2003-2004), Facilities Task Force (2004-2005),Fiscal Review Task Force (2004-2005), Bond Steering Committee (2006-2008) District Improvement/Strategic Planning Committee (2007-2008)
  • Neighbors for Continued (Educational) Excellence, Inc.
  • Founder, Board Member (2005)
  • Washington Township Educational Foundation
  • Board Member (2006-2012), Vice President/Development (2009, 2010)
  • American, Indiana, Indianapolis Bar Associations

Bar Admissions 

  • Indiana

Firm Description:

Densborn Blachly LLP is a boutique firm of respected business, real estate, intellectual property and litigation lawyers. The firm is designed and driven to achieve desired client outcomes with practicality, economy and differentiating skill. Densborn Blachy has been recognized as a Best Lawyers® Best Law Firm in 11 practice areas. The firm concentrates its practice on the following:

  • Corporate and Business Organizations Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  • Real Estate Law
  • Insurance Law
  • Commercial Finance Law
  • Securities Law
  • Copyright Law
  • Technology Law
  • Trademark Law
  • Patent Law

Densborn Blachly’s mission is to address the legal needs of its clients with energy, effectiveness, creativity and a high sense of honor, integrity and respect. Learn more at dblaw.com.

 

Donald Densborn

Leaders in Law endorses Donald Densborn as our exclusively recommended Corporate Law expert in the USA – Indiana. If you wish to get in touch with Donald please use the contact information provided above.

Don Densborn is a seasoned business lawyer, who represents companies in a myriad of industries, including manufacturing, service, real estate, technology, distribution, logistics, alternative energy, metals, senior living, private equity, prepaid card, banking and finance. His non-bank clients are primarily situated in an established middle market, but include others which are startup, earlier stage or emerging.

His practice is focused on transaction work, particularly company acquisition, disposition and combination transactions. He also is regularly engaged in corporate finance transactions, including commercial financial, mezzanine loan, venture capital and distress transactions, and securities offerings. He has long experience at real estate construction, leasing, conveyancing, and mortgaging, including the title insurance and survey issues associated therewith.

He is a trusted adviser to several companies at the board level, where corporate governance, compliance, strategy, fiduciary and succession matters are paramount. He frequently counsels clients on choice of entity, having served on the Uniform Law Commission drafting committees on limited liability companies and the business organization code, and he is commonly involved in drafting shareholder buy-sell agreements and resolving shareholder disputes. His experience includes an array of commercial transactions, including sales, leasing, licensing, distribution, franchising, and consignment transactions and arrangements. Secured transaction work, too, has long been an area of concentration.

According to Chambers USA, Mr. Densborn is considered by his peers to be “very professional and practical” and possessed with an “impressive intellect”, “broad knowledge”, and “deep expertise” in corporate law.

The Densborn Blachly Difference

  • A Refreshing Alternative

The legal profession is experiencing wrenching change. The future belongs to those nimble enough to adapt. Technology is diffusing the old storehouses of legal expertise. Innovation is occurring in small labs without any surrender to mediocrity. The future clearly belongs to those who can best acquire, retrieve and apply knowledge. Still, “growth for growths sake” is pursued as a strategy. The bureaucratic onset and constant tumult that follow tend to shift attention inward, away from client service. Driving statistics, rather than creating client value, too often becomes the order of the day. Densborn Blachly provides a refreshing alternative. It offers the expertise that business clients demand without the baggage that they abhor.

  • A Next Generation Approach

Just as law schools divide the law into courses, law firms divide into narrow enclaves of expertise. But the problems and projects of business clients never present in a vacuum or are so neatly packaged. Densborn Blachly believes that differentiating service requires a more holistic approach. Its value proposition is experienced legal judgment leavened by a passion for business success. Out of shared passion, enduring relationships develop, and clients are better served. Thus, Densborn Blachly is mission-driven to ensure that its lawyers are well-grounded in the science of business and well-rounded in the practice of law—able to quickly grasp, at least rudimentarily, the clients business and its position in the industry it serves.

  • A Laser-Focus on Business

Densborn Blachly is proud to serve the Midwestern business community. Midwesterners are independent, competitive, practical and productive. They innovate before they realize they do. They esteem pedigree not nearly as much as getting the job done. Densborn Blachly is of the same ilk. At Densborn Blachly, innovation occurs in the field and on the fly. Practical solutions are found in places previously unexplored. Client interests are protected against underappreciated risks. Desired outcomes are reached through tenacious pursuit. Densborn Blachly lawyers know how to work hard with intuition, creativity and effectiveness honed over decades of experience. And they relish the competition of it all — just as their clients do.

 

David A. Smith

Leaders in Law endorses David Smith as our exclusively recommended Estate Planning Law expert in the USA – Indiana. If you wish to get in touch with David please use the contact information provided above.

Dave Smith is a Bedford, Indiana attorney who has a wide range of experience in many areas of the law. Dave has served as the primary legal advisor to Lawrence County Government as County Attorney since 1993. Prior to that, Dave served as Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney from 1985 to 1989.

In his private practice Dave has substantial experience in estate and wealth transfer planning, business and corporate formation and planning, probate and trust administration, elder law and long term care planning, Medicaid planning and real estate matters. Dave also handles personal injury and wrongful death matters. In recent years an increasingly large percentage of Dave’s time has involved helping individuals and families plan their estates and plan for the long term living and health needs of his clients. Dave works closely with each client to anticipate future needs, which includes planning for home health, assisted living and skilled nursing home care. Dave attempts to help clients meet their needs and maximize their legacy to family and loved ones.

Dave advises families on how to establish and preserve legacies for loved ones who have ongoing special needs. Parents of special needs children are often very concerned for the future needs of their children and particularly how to cover costs. Dave has experience in preparing and implementing supplemental needs trusts to help those with special needs maintain access to family resources without losing rights to public assistance programs.

Dave also has substantial experience in working with small business owners and helping with such matters as employment law and business succession planning issues. For the small business owner, their business is the single most valuable and important asset in his or her estate.

A native of Terre Haute, Dave has lived in Bedford since 1985. He completed his undergraduate degree at Indiana State University and completed his law degree at Indiana University – Indianapolis. Dave is a member of the Indiana and Florida bars. Dave’s professional associations include the American Bar Association, the Indiana State Bar Association, the Florida Bar, the Lawrence County Bar Association, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and the Hoosier Hills Estate Planning Council.

Dave practices across all of Southern Indiana, and spends the majority of his time in Lawrence, Orange, Monroe, Martin, Washington, Jackson, Daviess and Dubois counties. With prior arrangement, Dave will make home and hospital visits to accommodate his clients.