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Golkow Business Law LLC

Big Firm Experience. Boutique Efficiency and Dedication.

Sophisticated legal and strategic advice for business owners, entrepreneurs, and middle-market companies, grounded in more than 30 years of business-law experience, guiding clients through over a billion dollars of transactions.

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Curt Golkow, business lawyer
Experience

Exceptional Legal Advice and
Business Counsel

After graduating from the Wharton School of Business and University of Pennsylvania Law School, Curt has devoted more than 30 years to practicing business, finance, and securities law, including more than 20 years with major Philadelphia law firms.

Today, he brings that experience directly to business owners and companies through a boutique practice focused on sophisticated legal work, practical judgment, and personal attention.

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What We Do

Empowering your business and achieving your goals

We deliver excellent legal advice combining mastery of the law, high business acumen, and a deep understanding of the client. Curt is known for finding creative solutions even in the most challenging situations.

Core Practice

Mergers & Acquisitions

Our M&A practice is national in scope. We represent buyers and sellers in transactions throughout the U.S., ranging from straightforward acquisitions and sales to complex, highly negotiated, and distressed deals. Curt is a former Chairperson of the M&A Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association and has been a frequent lecturer on M&A at the Wharton School and Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

Representing Sellers

Curt represents owners and companies selling their businesses, helping them evaluate offers, structure transactions, conduct an efficient sale process, negotiate definitive agreements, and manage the legal issues that arise through closing.

Representing Buyers

Curt represents buyers in acquisitions, including transaction structuring, due diligence, negotiation, financing, regulatory considerations, and closing.

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Core Practice

Business Divorce

Curt has a far-reaching reputation for skillful handling of business divorce matters. He helps clients resolve disputes, anticipate and avoid conflicts, structure creative buyouts, and negotiate favorable resolutions without the expense and stress of litigation. Curt has represented dozens of law firms in their complex internal conflicts.

Curt's business-divorce practice is national, representing clients across the country.

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Core Practice

Healthcare

Curt represents medical practices in mergers and acquisitions, represents physicians joining practices and becoming partners, helps practices expand into super-practices, and represents physicians within divisions of super-practices with internal governance and buyouts.

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Outside General Counsel

Experienced legal and strategic advice without the cost of a full-time general counsel.

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Capital & Finance

Debt and equity financing, private capital, lending, restructuring, and related transactions.

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Commercial Transactions

Contracts and business relationships that support day-to-day operations and growth.

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Outside General Counsel

More than a lawyer. A business advisor.

Many privately held companies do not need a full-time general counsel. They do, however, need someone experienced enough to recognize legal issues before they become business problems.

Curt works closely with owners and management on transactions, contracts, disputes, financing, governance, and strategic decisions.

Clients rely on Curt not simply for legal analysis, but for practical judgment and business perspective.

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30+Years of business-law experience
20+Years at major Philadelphia firms
$1B+Transactions guided
The Team Approach

The right team for the matter.

Curt assembles a team of top-notch lawyers and other professionals suited to the particular matter rather than limiting clients to the resources of a single firm.

Depending on the matter, that may include specialized litigators, tax or securities lawyers, accountants, valuation professionals, financing sources, and other advisors.

The goal is simple: build the right team for the client's problem.

Professional Recognition

A cut above the rest

Super LawyerSelected by peers annually as a Philadelphia Super Lawyer for almost 20 years.
Martindale-Hubbell AV PreeminentAV Preeminent is the highest rating for skills and ethics in the Martindale-Hubbell rating system.
Legal EliteRecognized as a Philadelphia SmartCEO Legal Elite honoree.

For several years, Curt has been a guest lecturer at the Wharton School on M&A and venture capital financing.

Let's talk about your business.

Whether you are considering a transaction, confronting a difficult business relationship, or looking for experienced outside general counsel, an initial conversation can help identify the issues and potential paths forward.

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