Practice Areas

Greg A. Bouwer has worked with multiple entities and persons in the medical field to negotiate the sale of surgical facilities, the management of surgical facilities, employment contracts for individual doctors, and employment contracts for medical practices. Koransky, Bouwer & Poracky represent several medical practice groups and many individual doctors in the ongoing matters that face medical practitioners in the constantly changing health fields.

Personal injury can change a family’s life in an instant, bringing with it physical, mental, and emotional pain along with financial hardship. No one should face these challenges without experienced legal help. Our attorneys have represented individuals and businesses in prosecuting and defending their clients in state and federal courts. Our knowledgeable injury attorneys include former insurance defense counsel who understands your case from both sides to obtain the best possible results for you.

All of our attorneys are licensed in Indiana and Illinois and can litigate any serious personal injury matter you may have. Whether your claim is an auto accident, trucking accident, wrongful death, slip and fall accident, boating mishap, or any other personal injury, let us put our over 80 years of combined legal experience to work for you.

Call us today at (219) 865-6700 to arrange an appointment for a free consultation with one of our attorneys to review and analyze your case.

Our staff can assist with Spanish-speaking and hearing impaired clients.

We provide a wide range of tax and estate planning services for individuals and businesses, including asset protection strategies, executive compensation, employee benefits programs and estate administration. We can assist you with:

• General tax planning for individuals and businesses
• Wills and trusts
• Revocable living trusts
• Life insurance trusts
• Gift trusts for children and grandchildren
• Generation skipping dynasty trusts
• Charitable remainder trusts
• Grantor retained annuity and income trusts
• Qualified personal residence trusts
• Intentionally defective grantor trusts
• Probate and estate administration
• Business succession planning
• Retirement planning
• Asset protection planning
• Family limited partnerships and LLCs
• Qualified and nonqualified retirement plans
• Executive compensation and fringe benefit programs
• Tax planning for mergers and acquisitions and real estate transactions

We provide sales-added legal counsel throughout the acquisition process.

• Stock purchases and sales
• Asset purchases and sales
• Business “divorces”
• Strategic purchases and mergers
• Entrepreneurial purchases
• Sales and purchases of troubled companies
• Structuring seller financing, earn outs, holdbacks and escrows as well as post-closing price adjustments to confirm asset value assumptions
• Assisting with legal matters related to purchase – employee transition; employment/consulting agreements; financing from senior and junior lenders; non-competition agreements; lease or purchase of real estate; approvals from third parties; shareholder agreements
• Due diligence review including tax, contract, labor, employee benefit, environmental, product liability, corporate status, and real estate issues

We represent clients in State and Federal court in Indiana and Illinois, as well as administrative proceedings, arbitration, and mediation.  Our litigation practice focuses on Real Estate Transaction Law, Banking Law, Business and Corporate Law, and Commercial Law with a strong emphasis on Personal Injury.  Our attorneys have a breadth of experience in handling serious personal injury and wrongful death cases.  Our representation can involve many different types of matters, including:

• Commercial and Residential Real Estate transactions

• Corporate and commercial transactions

• Banking and Commercial Mortgage foreclosures

• Breach of contract

• Business torts

• Creditors’ rights

• Unfair competition

• Employment issues

• Personal Injury

We encourage all of our clients to take proactive steps to minimize litigation risks, so we actively pursue pre-litigation solutions, including negotiation and mediation, whenever appropriate.  In every case, we consider Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) options to reduce client exposure costs and improve efficiency.

Attorney Higgins is a Registered Civil Mediator in the State of Indiana.  Having attended additional educational training in Mediation and Dispute Resolution, Tom can conduct Mediation or Arbitration on a variety of legal matters at your office or ours.  We are conveniently located close to the Indiana-Illinois line on U.S. 30 in Dyer, Indiana. Click on the link to Schedule a Mediation, and let us facilitate a resolution for you.

We counsel and represent our employer clients in a wide range of employment matters, including:

• Drafting and enforcement of employment contracts such as confidentiality agreements, covenants restricting post-employment competition, and bonus and commission arrangements
• Development of personnel policies and procedures such as employee handbooks
• Defense of employment discrimination claims, including age, race and sex discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation complaints, and implementation of staff reductions, workforce reorganizations and plant closures
• Representation of employers in wrongful discharge suits, unfair labor practice charges and union grievances
• Defense of employee compensation claims
• Safety and health citations

We act as outside general counsel to publicly-traded and privately-held businesses in a wide range of industries. Our attorneys use their legal knowledge and business experience to formulate practical solutions for our clients in ordinary day-to-day operations as well as in extraordinary transactions, including:

• Formation and capitalization of legal entities
• Ownership control and buy-sell agreements
• Ownership and management succession planning
• Mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations
• Spin-offs, split-offs, and subsidiary transactions
• Employee stock ownership plans
• Manufacturing, distribution and sales agreements
• Joint ventures
• Equipment and real estate leasing
• Terms of sale
• Confidentiality and protection of proprietary information
• Executive compensation and fringe benefit agreements
• Enforcement of creditors’ rights
• General corporate representation

Representation of financial institutions is a core practice area for our firm. Our banking and secured lending practice includes:

• Formation and capitalization of bank holding companies and de novo banks
• Regulatory and compliance matters
• Project and development financing, including single family and multifamily developments
• Real estate secured and construction financing
• Asset-based financing
• Secured and unsecured working capital lines of credit
• Term loans
• Direct pay letters of credit as enhancement for industrial revenue bonds and special service areas
• Participations and multi-bank lending relationships
• ESOP loans
• Workouts and restructuring
• Enforcement of creditors’ rights
• Litigation

Our practice also includes the representation of owners and developers in connection with the structuring, negotiation, documentation and closing of credit facilities.