Edward W. Ahart ’69 Partner, Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP engages students on Business Structures, M&A, and Divestitures (April 13, 2014)

Edward W. Ahart chairs the Corporate Practice Group.  He practices primarily as a business attorney, concentrating in advising businesses, business owners, directors and managers on governance and entity structural issues, along with transactions including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, finance and business contracts.  Mr. Ahart served for more than thirty years as a member of the Firm’s Managment Committee, including twenty years as the Firm’s Managing Partner and Chair of its Management Committee.  In 2010 he relinquished that role to assume the position of Chairman of the Firm, and has now returned to the full-time practice of law.

Mr. Ahart has extensive experience in general business counseling, structuring entities, in business governance, as well as in transactions, including the purchase, sale and financing of businesses and related commercial transactions, in addition to the structuring and restructuring, negotiating and closing of complex asset and stock sales and acquisitions.  A considerable percentage of his practice is comprised of the representation of closely held and family-owned businesses, including many insurance agencies, as well as several not-for-profit companies and foundations.

In addition, Mr. Ahart has represented numerous financial institutions, both large and small, and has served as acting general counsel to counsel to Hooper Holmes, Inc., a publicly traded company, and as outside counsel to the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, Basking Ridge Golf Club, Inc., Allied Oil, Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey (the “IIABNJ”), Millington Quarry, Inc., Damon G Douglas, Inc., Duke Farms Foundation and the Lamart Corporation in general corporate matters.