Krevolin & Horst, LLC

Firm Overview:

Krevolin Horst is a boutique law firm located in Atlanta, Georgia, that offers highly credentialed and experienced lawyers in a small firm environment where our clients receive personalized attention and exceptional representation in a cost-effective manner. All of our partners have been recognized as top attorneys in their field by various publications such as Best Lawyers, Georgia Trend magazine’s Legal Elite, Chambers USA , and Super Lawyers. All of our lawyers have worked at large firms, and many served as law clerks to federal judges. Our clients include individuals, entrepreneurs, and companies nationwide ranging from start-ups to large, publicly traded and privately held businesses. Although based in Atlanta, our firm provides services to clients with business activities and litigation throughout the country. Our transactional lawyers provide regional representation for several clients. Our litigation lawyers handle significant, cutting edge issues and have tried cases in several states. We are known for providing highly effective representation in a cost-effective manner. We work hard every day to achieve our clients'​ objectives.

Practice Descriptions:

Business Litigation

KH has one of the top litigation practices in Atlanta, seeded with exceptionally talented and credentialed business trial lawyers. The team handles everything from class actions to individual cases. Krevolin Horst lawyers regularly try cases before federal and state courts and arbitration panels. Because of Krevolin Horst’s deep and broad expertise in arbitration, mediation, and trials, the team can assist clients in selecting the most appropriate mechanism for each dispute, understand the process, and secure outstanding results.

Commercial Real Estate

KH’s highly skilled real estate team provides more than just legal advice. The firm’s real estate attorneys are dealmakers with decades of diverse and substantive experience. Our attorneys work with owners, developers, and lenders on acquisitions, capital raises and funding, divestitures, development, joint ventures, ground leases, and permanent and construction financing for multi-family housing, retail, commercial, senior and assisted living, and industrial properties in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast.

Corporate Governance & Business Divorces

KH’s corporate governance practice focuses on advising officers, directors, and shareholders about their rights and obligations, drafting effective shareholder and limited liability company agreements and representing parties in corporate governance disputes. The attorneys routinely prosecute and defend suits relating to corporate governance matters, valuation, shareholder disputes, and officer and director liability.

Corporate Transactions

KH provides advice in a broad range of transactions, for both buyers and sellers, including leveraged buy-outs, management buy-outs, strategic acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, capital reorganizations, carve-out transactions, and joint ventures. The firm has experience representing private equity funds, companies growing by acquisition or strategically divesting assets or divisions, and private investors seeking to purchase businesses.

Education Law

The firm helps charter schools, higher education institutions, networks, and education service providers with starting nonprofit tax-exempt corporations, board governance, bylaws, school policies, discipline, contracts, employment-related issues, internal investigations, and diversity and equity initiatives.

Election Law

KH has the preeminent election law practice in Georgia.

Employment Litigation

KH advises employers and employees concerning a broad spectrum of employment law issues. The firm’s transactional lawyers regularly negotiate employment agreements and severance packages for high level managers and executives. K&H’s litigators advise clients about employment agreements and regularly defend federal and state employment law claims.

Intellectual Property/Unfair Competition Litigation

KH regularly litigates trade secret, trademark, and copyright issues. Virtually every member of the team has trial/hearing experience and a federal court clerkship background allowing for a candid, realistic perspective on how a court is likely to handle infringement claims and securing preliminary injunctions against competitors as well as defending such matters.

Internal Investigations

KH typically handles multiple internal investigations contemporaneously. These investigations assess the risk of liability to an organization and its individuals. The attorneys also provide proactive compliance programs, identify problematic areas, recommend measures to prevent recurrence, provide advice during criminal or regulatory investigations, and vigorously defend clients in court when necessary.

Technology

KH has experience assisting clients in negotiation, documentation, and implementation of a variety of transactions involving the development, acquisition, licensing, and sale of software and technology as well as outsourcing arrangements for our clients involving software development, training, service, call centers, and data processing facilities.

White Collar

KH litigators are well known for their trial experience and continue to be sought out in some of the most complicated and large-scale criminal cases brought by the government. The firm has more than 30 years of complex trial experience and has former federal prosecutors leading this team.