Gould & Ratner LLP

Thank you to all the firms and students for attending Chicago-Kent's 2024 Small & Mid-Sized Firm Reception! It was a spectacular event. Thank you to our participating law firms Gould & Ratner LLP, Hennessy & Roach, P.C., Saper Law Offices, LLC, Patzik Frank and Samotny Ltd., Elman Joseph Law Group, LLC, Klein, Thorpe & Jenkins, Ltd., McEntee Law Group, Gordon Law Group, Wiedner & McAuliffe, Ltd., Delgado Rompf Bruen LLC, Segal McCambridge Singer Mahoney, Rusin Law, Ltd., and Dussias Wittenberg Koenigsberger LLP.

We were thrilled to participate in Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology's Small & Mid-Size Firm?Reception last night. From left, our associates Jeffrey Goldberg and Alec F. Cerqueira, along with our Director of Talent Acquisition, Daniel Minjock, talked with many interesting and talented law students about what our firm has to offer. Was a GReat evening! #gouldratner #lawschool #recruiting

Congratulations to Ilana S. Bley for 7 years at Gould & Ratner! Thank you for all that you've done for us! #workmilestone #gouldratner

Congratulations to Jeffrey Goldberg for 2 years at Gould & Ratner! Thank you for all that you've done for us! #workmilestone #gouldratner

Thank you to Ron Hedges for inviting me to rock the AI and GAI stage for #pilotlegis24! And thank you to Ryan Kovach of Aon and Laura Thompson Sears CLM of Gould & Ratner LLP for bringing all our AI dreams to sunny San Diego! If your organization wants a powerful ethics plus prompt engineering workshop let me know! Happy to bring the technocat tour powered by Reveal to you! #technocat #promptengineering #futurelaw #legaltech

Great meet and greet with our Chicago area MSI Global Alliance accounting firm member, @WaradyDavis, a terrific mid market full service regional accounting firm. Thanks to @LeslieFlynn, @MarkThomas, @BobWeismann, @RickFranklin and their colleagues for entertaining us for a terrific lunch and discussion on our respective talents. Thanks to my amazing colleagues, Ammara Khan (corporate and AI), Jennifer Tolsky (tax and estate planning), Ilana Bley (tax and estate planning) and Becca Smart (corporate) for helping us showcase Gould & Ratner.

We are so blessed to represent and be friends with the wonderful folks from Batory Foods, a national food ingredients behemoth. We have witnessed and played our small part in its explosive growth over the years from modest beginnings to what it is today. Thanks for my dear friend, @RonFriedman (CEO and large stockholder), Steve Bainbridge (CFO) and @ClaudiaCavalos (General Counsel, VP Regulatory) for joining us for an intimate lunch. Thanks to important members of our team for their valuable contributions- @Joe Marzo (real estate activities), @David Hoeppner (M&A and operating contracts), @Matt Olins (banking and creditor protection) and Mark Brookstein (Human Resources). Batory, thanks for delivering the goods and letting us help!

Gould & Ratner is pleased to announce that?Aaron Whyte?has joined the firm as an associate attorney in our Real Estate Practice. Whyte handles matters in the area of commercial real estate, representing real estate funds, developers, private equity companies, joint venture partners, and financial institutions in all aspects of acquisitions and dispositions, finance, leasing, and real estate development. He also assists clients with various corporate matters. “Aaron is a great addition to our real estate team,” said Joe Marzo, chair of Gould & Ratner’s Real Estate Practice.?“His experience handling complex commercial transactions around the country will be a great benefit to our clients.” Whyte earned his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Prior to joining Gould & Ratner, Whyte was an associate at a large global law firm.?

Great meet and greet with our Chicago area MSI Global Alliance accounting firm member, @WaradyDavis, a terrific mid market full service regional accounting firm. Thanks to @LeslieFlynn, @MarkThomas, @BobWeismann, @RickFranklin and their colleagues for entertaining us for a terrific lunch and discussion on our respective talents. Thanks to my amazing colleagues, Ammara Khan (corporate and AI), Jennifer Tolsky (tax and estate planning), Ilana Bley (tax and estate planning) and Becca Smart (corporate) for helping us showcase Gould & Ratner.

Congratulations to Juana Correa for 27 years at Gould & Ratner! Thank you for all that you've done for us! #workmilestone #gouldratner