Andrew Hazen

Specialties & Capabilities

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Languages Spoken

English

Friend Hudak & Harris LLP offers comprehensive legal services designed to transform real estate opportunities into advantages, protect valuable intellectual property, navigate complex technology landscapes, and ensure robust employment practices.

In Commercial Real Estate Law, the firm expertly represents owners and developers, negotiating and documenting transactions to achieve optimal business solutions. Their services encompass structuring, negotiating, and documenting development, construction, and financing for commercial real estate deals. They also handle the formation of real estate investment entities like joint ventures, partnerships, and LLCs, along with syndications, private offerings, and the purchase, sale, and exchange of real property, including Section 1031 exchanges. Landlord and tenant retail, office, and industrial leasing are also key areas of expertise.

The Technology Law practice provides tailored guidance on a wide array of issues affecting businesses across various industries. This includes internet and e-commerce law, covering terms of use, privacy policies, content agreements, and DMCA compliance. They possess deep experience in software development and licensing across diverse delivery models (SaaS, PaaS, mobile apps) and technologies. The firm also handles technology-related business transactions, compliance with information security and data privacy laws, online defamation, and technology issues within business sales, mergers, and acquisitions, alongside litigation and dispute resolution for complex technology matters.

For Employment Law, Friend Hudak & Harris LLP offers extensive assistance in executive compensation, employment law, and employee benefits, including ERISA. They help businesses choose and implement effective compensation, incentive, and compliance programs, and guide clients through allegations of employment law or ERISA violations. Typical matters include drafting executive employment contracts, equity-based and bonus programs, FMLA, Wage and Hour law, illegal discrimination allegations, qualified and non-qualified employee benefit plan advice, ERISA filing requirements, and worker classification.

Finally, in Intellectual Property Law, the firm focuses on protecting business assets and competitive advantages. Services include evaluating and registering copyrights and trademarks, protecting trade secrets and confidential information, addressing invention rights and employment-related intellectual property issues, and enforcing restrictive covenants like non-competition and non-solicitation agreements. They also develop business strategies for IP protection, manage the acquisition and transfer of IP rights, conduct infringement risk analysis, and handle IP issues in M&A transactions, as well as litigation and dispute resolution concerning IP ownership, infringement, domain rights, and cybersquatting.