guiding businesses on a path to success

Our Business and Corporate attorneys are trusted advisers, providing comprehensive, business-oriented counsel to clients. We guide clients through the tax implications, business risks and opportunities inherent in each transaction and help them find their own path to success.

• • Strategic Investment Program (SIP) Successes

  • Ball Janik LLP Partners Jack Orchard and Steve Janik have represented several companies in successfully obtaining approvals and agreements under Oregon’s Strategic Investment Program (SIP), a property tax program created to induce companies to build new facilities in Oregon and increase employment.

• • Business and Asset Acquisition – Timber Holding Company

  • Ball Janik LLP represented a major U.S. timber holding company in the acquisition of various components necessary to form a vertically integrated wood products company, through asset purchases and merger transactions.

• • Business Sale

  • In 2009, Laura Cooper assisted a long-time client in the sale of his business, a petroleum product supply company that also owned several full-service retail service stations in Oregon.

• • Business Sale – Car Wash Manufacturer

  • The Business and Corporate practice represented the private equity owners of one of the largest car wash manufacturers in the country in the sale of the company’s assets to a competing out of state manufacturer.

• • Provenance Hotel Group

  • Tim Parks has represented Provenance Hotels in virtually every aspect of its growth from a single hotel manager to a prominent West Coast hotel management company.

• • Sale of Businesses in Bankruptcy

  • Ball Janik LLP's Business and Corporate practice is regularly engaged in assisting clients with the sale of operating companies by receivers and bankruptcy trustees.

• • WSCO Petroleum Corp. – Heritage Hotels

  • For more than a decade, Tim Parks has represented WSCO Petroleum Corp., one of the largest petroleum distribution companies in the Northwest, and recently helped the company form Heritage Hotels and acquire Microtel franchised hotels in strategic locations.