John Balaba

John advises on significant transactions, complex financings, critical disputes, and daily operational issues. His clients include entrepreneurs, emerging growth businesses, international investment firms, and public companies who often operate in highly regulated industries, such as aerospace and defense, beverage alcohol, energy, finance, and healthcare. John regularly advises companies on acquisitions, equity/debt financings, joint ventures, licenses, and cross-border matters. He advises foreign companies doing business in the U.S., as well as U.S. companies doing business abroad. John invests the time to understand his client’s objectives, key industry trends, and economic factors that affect those objectives, designing business solutions in legal terms to achieve the intended result. He is a skilled negotiator who recognizes both sides of any given legal position and knows the workarounds likely to lead to an agreement, but also knows how to prevail absent a mutually agreed outcome.