Barrett McNagny LLP

Ben Bailey works with businesses and individuals in all stages of real estate transactions such as the purchase, sale, financing, and leasing of commercial, industrial, rental, and residential property. He provides counsel to landowners and prospective landowners on environmental diligence, environmental risk assessment, and risk mitigation. Ben also assists with economic development efforts by helping clients with securing local and state funding.

Prior to joining the firm, he completed a one-year clerkship with Justice Derek R. Molter of the Indiana Supreme Court. 

H. Joseph Cohen works with clients in the areas of labor and employment matters and litigation including insurance defense. Concentrating on health care providers, his practice works with hospitals, physician offices, dentists, and doctors on their employment law needs. He has extensive experience in defending all types of employment claims, including those based on race, sex, national origin, religion, and sexual harassment. His experience also includes handling insurance defense claims. 

He is a frequent speaker on labor and employment topics and has presented more than 100 lectures/seminars to statewide and local audiences. 

Brian focuses his practice in the areas of wills and trusts, the avoidance or reduction of estate, inheritance, and generation-skipping taxes. He also consults business owners regarding the choice of entity issues, valuation issues, buy-sell agreements, and business succession issues.

A Fort Wayne native, Brian practiced for over twenty years assisting estate planning clients in the State of Florida prior to joining Barrett McNagny. Brian is licensed to practice law in the states of Indiana, Florida, and Arizona (inactive).

Marcus A. Heminger concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate and business law and securities law. He has extensive experience in corporate transactions, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, private and registered public securities offerings, SEC reporting compliance, and NYSE and NASDAQ regulatory compliance.

Ben is a partner in the firm’s litigation section, where he represents clients in challenging and complex litigation matters. He has experience in all aspects of litigation, including trial work and appeals.

Ben has significant experience in representing professionals in cases alleging professional negligence, including more than 50 jury trials. He also focuses on intellectual property litigation and business and commercial litigation.

Gurleen Kahlon concentrates her practice in the areas of commercial litigation and general liability defense. Specifically, she provides litigation services related to disputes concerning contracts, real estate, insurance defense matters, and premises liability.

Prior to joining the firm, Gurleen practiced in Washington D.C. at a litigation firm where she focused her practice primarily in the areas of insurance coverage and bankruptcy disputes involving commercial liability, products liability, and complex torts. She assisted in representing major insurance companies in complex litigation in federal and state courts across the country. 

David Pricer concentrates his practice in the area of litigation, including commercial litigation, premises liability, professional liability, general liability claims and contract disputes. He has also handled appeals, real estate and transactional and municipal public employment cases and has extensive experience in legal research and analysis.

Prior to joining Barrett McNagny, Mr. Pricer was a Partner at a local law firm where he focused on appeals, trusts, business associations, and real estate transactions. He also served as a judicial law clerk for the Hon. Thomas J. Felts where he was responsible for the civil docket and formulating legal recommendations from trial, hearings, and motions, and handling legal research projects and drafting final dispositive orders.

William Ramsey represents clients on appeals, defends medical malpractice and general liability claims, and litigates business and commercial matters. He also represents corporate and professional clients with licensing and compliance issues. He has jury trial experience and has appeared before the Indiana Court of Appeals, Indiana Tax Court, and the Indiana Supreme Court for oral arguments. William is a member of the Allen County Bar Association (ACBA), the Indiana State Bar Association (ISBA), and the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana. 

After receiving his B.A. in English from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, William earned his J.D., magna cum laude, in 2006 from Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington. He is admitted to practice before the Indiana state courts and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana and Eastern District of Michigan.

Kylee J. Shirey focuses her practice in the areas of real estate and business law where she assists clients with the purchase, sale and development of real estate, land-use planning, business structuring and planning, financing, and business-related transactions.

Over the past decade, she has held executive roles in both the private and non-profit sectors, where she provided strategic and tactical leadership in a variety of capacities, including strategic initiatives and business development. She is the founder and principal of Bold Wave Consulting, LLC, a strategic initiatives consulting firm.

Holly is a member of the transactions team which primarily serves middle market businesses on all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including letters of intent, deal structuring, negotiations, due diligence, documentation, executing complex transactions and closings. She also provides outside general counsel to entrepreneurs, investors, emerging companies and Fortune 500 companies on corporate governance and securities.

Prior to joining the law firm, Holly practiced law in Delaware. 

David Steiner focuses his practice on transactional work for businesses and individuals, primarily real estate transactions, specializing in environmentally impacted real estate, brownfields redevelopment, land leases and sales for solar facility development, and tax-free exchanges, as well as business transactions involving formation, acquisitions, sales, and contracts.

Throughout his career, David has represented clients in acquiring, selling and leasing real estate across the Midwest, Southwest, and Southeast. He regularly represents purchasers, sellers and lenders in transactions involving environmentally impacted commercial properties. These representations include all aspects of real estate due diligence including environmental risk assessment, land use, title insurance, survey and mortgage financing matters. 

Attorney Anthony Stites represents business entities in all facets of their employment matters. On a daily basis, he works with human resource personnel and in-house counsel to prevent or solve problems in the employment arena. Tony assists all sizes of employers ranging from very small businesses through large publicly traded corporations. 

With an emphasis in the transportation and manufacturing sectors, Tony has presented hundreds of supervisor training sessions throughout the U.S. He has extensive experience in strike activity and trial experience defending employers in all areas of employment matters. Tony also serves as a mediator for alternate dispute resolution.

Attorney Sam Talarico, Jr., has nearly thirty years of experience representing corporate clients, with an emphasis on mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, and private placements. He regularly represents clients who are buying and selling businesses involving both strategic and private equity parties, including numerous transactions within the insurance and financial services space. He has assisted public companies with the preparation of 10-Ks, 8-Ks, 10-Qs, as well as proxy materials and press releases, and has prepared Hart Scott Rodino filings for multiple transactions. He has also assisted companies with well over forty “Reg D” private offerings of equity and debt securities.

In addition to his legal experience, Sam is a certified public accountant (inactive status) and, prior to his legal career, he worked as an auditor for the “Big 4” accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). 

Sabrina T. Victor is a member of Barrett McNagny’s Corporate and Business Law Group. Sabrina represents corporate clients in mergers and acquisitions, business formation, leveraged buyouts, corporate restructurings, and other corporate governance matters.

Prior to joining Barrett McNagny, Sabrina worked at a global law firm where she advised private companies, private equity funds and strategic investors on a range of complex corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and general corporate matters.

** She is not licensed in the State of Indiana. 

Phil focuses his practice on business transactions, business succession planning, federal and state taxation, estate planning, probate matters, and estate administration. Phil also advises business owners regarding choice of entity issues, valuation issues, buy-sell agreements, and business succession issues.

Phil is a member of the Allen County Bar Association where he serves as Chairman of the Probate, Trust & Tax Section, and of the Indiana State Bar Association where he serves as a member of the Tax Section Council. Phil is also a member of the Fort Wayne Estate Planning Council and the Planned Giving Council of Northeast Indiana. Annually he participates in the Leave a Legacy ^®, Write a Will program and has given presentations and/or authored materials for seminars on various law topics. 

Jeff counsels for-profit and nonprofit business organizations in a variety of general business matters and transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and various forms of joint ventures, as well as the tax consequences of alternative transaction structures. Over the years, Jeff has represented publicly and privately owned buyers and sellers in multiple asset and stock transactions involving values in excess of $1.6 billion dollars.

Jeff routinely counsels clients on a variety of business issues involving the interpretation of all types of contracts, agreements and governing documents, including shareholder agreements, operating agreements, partnership agreements, corporate bylaw provisions, and other agreements and business organizational documents.