Listed for the past nine years as one of the country’s top ten tax lawyers by United States Lawyer Rankings, Ms. Halchak is also regularly selected in at least four categories in Best Lawyers®. She is also regularly selected to the New Jersey Super Lawyers list in the Mergers & Acquisitions category. Her practice is principally transactional, with a concentration in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and compliance, leveraged leasing, corporate, and compensation counseling. She handles a wide variety of business transactions, including U.S. and foreign multi-party acquisitions, divestitures, and financings. Ms. Halchak also has significant experience counseling public and private companies, and their Boards of Directors, on governance and regulatory matters, and structuring compensation packages including tax-deferral structures, equity and equity-based incentive plans, and other benefit plans, and executive and employer protections on a change of control.

Ms. Halchak has an extensive practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, leveraged leasing and divestitures, representing a diverse range of domestic and international clients from early stage and mid-size to larger multi-nationals. She has significant experience leading multi-disciplinary attorney and business teams in structuring, negotiating, and closing these complex business transactions. In some cases, the clients engaged in these transactions are the same clients that Ms. Halchak has counseled for many years on all aspects of their businesses. She is highly respected for her in-depth understanding of each client’s business model and strategy. This makes her a critical player in each of these transactions from their early stages through the post-closing integration process.

Gibbons P.C.

Gibbons has been recognized nationally for its work – for example, as one of only 20 law firms on the National Law Journal’s inaugural “Midsize Hot List” – as well as regionally. The New Jersey Law Journal has awarded Gibbons a “Litigation Practice of the Year” designation four times in recent years, in the class actions, products liability, and commercial litigation categories and with the overall “General Litigation Practice of the Year” honor. Law360 has highlighted the firm’s multidisciplinary litigation strength, and its contributions to several high-profile corporate and real estate transactions in the public and private sectors, in its “Regional Powerhouse” series. Gibbons was also selected as “Best Law Firm” and a top three lobbying firm in New Jersey in the NJBIZ Reader Ranking Awards for the past two years. The firm has been certified as a great workplace by the independent analysts at the Great Place to Work® organization.