Brent D. Rosenthal
Business, Real Estate

My job is to knock down legal barriers quickly and in a cost-effective manner so clients can concentrate on their businesses. 

• Practice focus: Concentrates on representing businesses and individuals in general business and commercial real estate matters by focusing on the needs of closely held and family businesses and their owners
• Joined Carlile Patchen & Murphy LLP in July 2007
• General business practice emphasizes: corporation, limited liability company, and partnership law, entity selection, formation and planning, contracts and commercial law, complex business and commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, business planning, succession planning and implementation, and franchising and distribution law
• Real estate representation emphasizes: commercial real estate law, including acquisition, sales and other complex transactions planning and implementation, leasing, development, financing, zoning and land use, real estate taxation, annexation, eminent domain, and condominium law
• One of the first Ohio lawyers and one of only 21 in the state to be certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a Specialist in Business, Commercial and Industrial Real Property Law
• Member of the Columbus, Ohio State and American Bar Associations; active in committee work
• Very active in Rotary serving as District Governor of Rotary District 6690 in 2011-12; member and Past President of the Rotary Club of Westerville
• Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning from The Ohio State University in 1980; law degree from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1984
• Resides in Westerville with his wife, Sylvia, and has three adult daughters, Rachel, Elise, and Kirsten; long active in community, church, and civic matters; enjoys riding his motorcycle, playing guitar, listening to music and spending time with his family
• Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV® Preeminent™*

*The Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings serve as an objective indicator that a lawyer has the highest ethical standards and professional ability. A rating of AV® Preeminent™ denotes that an attorney has achieved the status of “Very High to Preeminent” legal ability based on recommendations from the attorney’s peers. AV® Preeminent™ and BV® Distinguished™ are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.

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