Practice Areas Overview

With offices in Dallas and Houston, the attorneys at the law firm of Vincent Lopez Serafino Jenevein, P.C. represent clients throughout Texas and nationwide in transactional and litigation matters across a wide range of fields of law. The firm's primary areas of practice include:

Business and Commercial Litigation

Vincent Lopez Serafino Jenevein, P.C. works with clients across a wide range of strategic business transactions and counseling matters, drawing upon the full resources of the firm. Our attorneys handle both business litigation and general corporate client representation for foreign and domestic firms, with an emphasis on cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, partnership disputes, and corporate compliance and governance matters.

Our clients include top-ranked national and international firms, middle-market and emerging companies, and closely-held and family-run businesses. We also serve financial institutions and private equity and venture capital firms. We take pride in adding value for all of our clients, regardless of size or type.

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Banking and Finance Law

Our firm engages in a substantial business and financial practice, with experienced attorneys focusing on financial transactions involving corporate finance, tax, government contracts, real estate, environmental law, insurance, technology and intellectual property, executive compensation and employment benefits, health care, and associations. Our trial practice in this area includes securities and fiduciary litigation, as well as banking litigation involving contractual disputes and workouts/collection for lenders.

While much of the firm’s focus is on foreign and domestic financial institutions, we handle transactional work for a wide range of large public corporations as well as privately held businesses, trade associations, nonprofit organizations, new ventures, and individuals.

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Real Estate Litigation

In the real property arena, the firm serves as real estate counsel for clients ranging from start-ups to leading national and international companies. These clients have selected the firm because of the strengths of our real estate practice in providing integrated real estate legal services. Our attorneys take a team approach by working with each company's real estate managers and in-house legal staff to develop a familiarity with each company's real estate holdings, policies, and business objectives. This approach enables us to offer comprehensive service for a full range of real estate legal needs. Our real estate litigation practice extends from landlord-tenant disputes regarding option agreements and purchase and sales agreements, to complex commercial torts involving financial high stakes and multiple parties to the dispute. We also handle issues related to premises liability, property insurance subrogation, and real estate construction.

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Construction Litigation

The firm's attorneys combine their litigation skills with their knowledge and experience in the areas of business, commercial, real estate, and general civil litigation to successfully address construction litigation matters. We handle construction defect cases alleging patent or latent defects due to defective work, defective materials, negligent design, soil issues, and other matters. In addition, we represent property owners, builders and developers, contractors and subcontractors, and architects, engineers, and other design professionals in a host of contract-related litigation, including issues surrounding performance bonds and payment bonds, mechanics' liens, and stop notices.

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Labor & Employment Law

The firm's attorneys handle a wide variety of employment law matters, including the negotiation of severance packages and terms of discharge on behalf of executives and senior-level employees, post-employment restrictions, and covenants not to compete. The firm also works with the client in enforcing commission agreements, overcoming non-compete issues, interpreting stock option plans, and ensuring that the client's interests are protected during takeovers or mergers. Additionally, we represent executives and other employees facing discrimination based on age, gender, pregnancy, race, disability, or religion, as well as taking on Title VII and analogous state law litigation.

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School Law

Our school law practice is concentrated on school districts where we have litigated cases in state and federal courts in Texas and other states. We represent districts in a wide variety of disputes, ranging from contract issues to business and personal torts. In addition, the firm provides high quality legal representation for students, families, and agencies in many areas of education law. Our knowledge in areas such as special education, constitutional law, and business and employment law enables us to provide sound advice, guidance, and legal representation on any school law issue. Common situations involve special education mediation, conciliation conferences, informal settlement negotiations, claims of sexual harassment or bullying, discrimination in educational opportunities, disciplinary proceedings, including proposed expulsions and more.

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Bankruptcy

The firm's bankruptcy practice focuses on Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases for both individuals and businesses. Our attorneys manage all aspects of general bankruptcy and debtor-creditor litigation, including representation in all phases of reorganization from pre-petition to post-petition and out of court. Our extensive litigation experience includes every major aspect of bankruptcy and commercial law, including: state litigation; preferences and fraudulent conveyance; collections; exemptions and estate planning; discharge issues; plans of reorganization; creditors' rights and collection matters; and asset recovery.

We represent creditors and trustees as well as business and consumer debtors. Our clients include major national insurance and surety companies, banks, trustees, business owners, and individuals.

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Transactional Law

The attorneys of Vincent Lopez Serafino Jenevein, P.C. are well prepared to handle a full spectrum of transactional law issues. From start-up, acquisition and share holder agreements to employment issues, lease contracts, disposition and dissolution - we can provide the legal navigation skills you need to accomplish your goals. Our experience provides us with a foundation based on both the big-picture needs and a granular attention to detail.

Our attorneys are experienced in organizing business entities under a variety of corporate forms, including limited and general partnerships, LLCs, LLPs, and nonprofit organizations. We handle all formation matters, including developing Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws. In addition, we assist clients with major transactions throughout the life of their business, negotiating, drafting, and reviewing contracts and related documents to ensure that their rights are protected and best interests reflected in the transaction.

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Insurance Defense

Our attorneys work extensively with insurance companies in defending the insurers and their policyholders against injury claims. The firm also advises and represents policyholders in coverage disputes with their insurers. We offer clients our recognized insurance coverage experience, coupled with the trial and litigation capabilities for which our firm is known and respected. With extensive trial and litigation strength, we are well-qualified to represent both insurers and those pursuing claims against insurance companies.

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Sports and Entertainment Law

The sports law team at Vincent Lopez Serafino Jenevein, P.C. has expertise in meeting the unique demands of business transactions in the professional sports world. We have been selected to work with franchises and individual clients in a variety of professional sports. While our primary efforts are focused on franchises and their facilities, we also handle the business (non-agent) needs of professional athletes. The firm serves sports law clients with a comprehensive team of business, finance, real estate, construction, and intellectual property attorneys

Vincent Lopez Serafino Jenevein, P.C. has an active entertainment law practice, including transactional and litigation matters. We represent screenwriters, production companies, talent and financiers, in projects ranging from independent low budget features to major studio fare with budgets in excess of $100 million. We handle acquisitions; distribution; financing (including equity and debt instruments, gap financing, intercreditor and interparty agreements, and pre-sales); talent and crew contracts; union and Guild agreements; and production matters. In addition, our attorneys have represented television stations, newspapers, and web-based content providers, as well as internet service providers, in both transactional and litigation matters, including registering and protecting trademarks and copyrights. We also are active in the world of writing and book publishing, from obtaining rights for non-fiction projects to actual publication. Our attorneys represent writers, publishers, and parties who have commissioned literary works.

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