Couch White, LLP is a full service law firm dedicated to the cost-effective resolution of legal problems encountered by, and the consummation of transactions contemplated by, an extensive business and professional clientele. The Firm, with its main office in Albany, New York and satellite offices in Saratoga Springs, New York City, Washington, D.C. and Farmington, Connecticut, has experienced attorneys and a full complement of paralegal assistants and support staff dedicated to meeting its clients’ needs.
Extensively experienced in a broad array of practice areas, the Firm has particular experience in handling all aspects of energy, environmental and telecommunications-related issues, including electricity and natural gas matters. The services furnished in these areas are comprehensive and include representing clients seeking solutions to a wide variety of issues. The scope and complexity of these matters are great, frequently involving tens of millions of dollars. The Firm is also involved in the permitting of energy generation and transmission facilities and the review and resolution of energy tariff and contract issues. The Firm offers a full range of legal services necessary for the evaluation, development and implementation of cost-effective solutions to energy and environmental problems.
Couch White also has a nationally-recognized construction law practice and handles cutting-edge issues affecting local, regional and national construction clients. The Firm’s clients include public and private owners and developers, national surety companies, design professionals and their insurance carriers, general and specialty contractors, subcontractors and suppliers. The work includes negotiating and drafting contracts, lien law matters, environmental matters, contract performance issues, employment and labor law counseling, and litigation at administrative hearings, arbitrations and trials.
The Firm has decades of collective experience in handling a broad range of civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution matters. The Firm’s commercial litigation practice covers a broad range of subject matters, from complex antitrust matters to product liability defense matters. The Firm appears regularly in arbitrations and in trial and appellate courts, both state and federal, throughout New York and elsewhere, including the United States Supreme Court.
Couch White represents numerous clients in all aspects of financing transactions, including mortgage, bridge and construction loans and general financing facilities, and the Firm has assisted clients with all aspects of asset and stock transactions. The Firm’s attorneys have worked with clients on real estate matters including purchase, sale, lease and exchange transactions, and the Firm has extensive experience in advising clients on all aspects of contracting, general corporate governance and compliance.
The Firm has extensive experience in representing commercial clients, not-for-profit organizations, lending institutions, municipal and quasi-government entities and individuals in all stages of the formation, sale, acquisition, management and financing of commercial and personal real property, corporate contractual matters and reporting and compliance. The Firm has counseled for-profit and not-for-profit entities, and the Firm has advised quasi-government clients in the formative stages of existence.
It is the Firm’s goal to deliver to the business, financial and professional communities quality, cost-effective legal services. The Firm is committed to providing the highest quality representation in an economic manner. The Firm’s roster of long-term national and local clients, the addition of a wide variety of new clients, and our success in representing our clients in significant matters are testaments to that commitment. In response to requests from its clients, Couch White, LLP is consistently engaged in a program of planned growth to enhance the services it offers.
Main Office:
540 Broadway
Albany, NY 12207
P: 518-426-4600 F: 518-426-0376
Other Locations:
18 Division Street
Suite 301
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
P: 518-583-4404 F: 518-426-0376
767 Third Avenue
Between 48th & 49th
New York, NY 10017
P: 212-418-0500 F: 212-421-0922
601 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20004
P: 202-638-6949 F: 202-638-6951
406 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06032
P: 860-676-7740 F: 860-676-7704
OVERVIEW
Couch White, LLP is a full-service business law firm with nationally-recognized leadership in the practice of energy and construction law. Our business law practice areas include banking, commercial and corporate law, environmental, government contracts, labor and employment, litigation, real estate and trusts, estates and business succession planning.
MISSION
Our mission is to resolve our clients’ issues in the most timely, efficient and effective manner possible. As a law firm and as individuals, we value experience, innovation, ethics, loyalty and effectiveness. We are committed to striving for excellence in service and hold ourselves accountable to our values, our clients and to our partners and staff.
PRACTICE AREAS
BANKING
The Couch White banking practice group furnishes banks and financial institutions experienced and effective counsel in a variety of lending, environmental, trust and bankruptcy matters.
COMMERCIAL
We furnish a wide range of legal services in all areas of commercial transactions, including sales and purchases, financing, insurance, litigation, banking, general business matters and regulatory compliance.
CONSTRUCTION
A recognized leader in construction law, Couch White understands that the right approach to a problem frequently determines the financial success of a construction project.
CORPORATE
The corporate practice group provides counseling to business clients, including proprietorships, closely-held entities, publicly-traded corporations and not-for-profit entities.
ENERGY
With a national reputation in energy law, Couch White represents clients on legal, regulatory, contractual and policy matters concerning electricity, natural gas and steam, generation, delivery and consumption.
ENVIRONMENTAL
Couch White environmental attorneys provide counseling, due diligence, planning, regulatory compliance, transactional and litigation services to corporations and governmental entities.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
Couch White represents construction contractors, defense contractors and federal, state and local agencies on a wide array of government contract issues.
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT
Couch White labor and employment law attorneys provide counseling and litigation services to management in all types of employment and workplace legal matters.
LITIGATION
Couch White attorneys have successfully litigated numerous commercial, employment, labor, administrative, contract and negligence claims on behalf of commercial clients and business owners.
REAL ESTATE
Couch White provides innovative and effective commercial real estate services to individuals, businesses, not-for-profit organizations and governmental entities.
TRUSTS, ESTATES AND BUSINESS SUCCESSION PLANNING
The Couch White trusts, estates and business succession planning practice group provides representation to individuals, business owners and business managers in all aspects of estate plans, business succession plans and estate administration.
