Rochester, New York, January 23, 2025 – Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, a full-service business law firm with offices throughout New York, recently advised CPL—a full-service architecture, engineering, and planning firm—in connection with its asset purchase transaction with Richmond-based Commonwealth Architects.
Founded in 1975, CPL is a 500-person multi-disciplined architecture, engineering and planning firm offering inspiring design and enriching communities with 25 offices across eight states. CPL specializes in the Healthcare, Community, Higher Education and K-12 Education sectors—providing architecture, MEP engineering, interior design, civil/structural engineering, planning, landscape architecture, and 3D/virtual design services to a host of public and private clients.
Harter Secrest and Emery’s Mergers & Acquisitions team was led by Thomas R. Anderson and Karthik N. Sekharan in conjunction with Timothy M. Fitzgerald, partner in the firm’s General Counsel Services and Real Estate practices.
With top tier rankings by Best Law Firms® and Chambers and Partners, Harter Secrest and Emery’s Mergers and Acquisitions team represents clients in connection with transactions ranging in value from several million- to multi-billion dollars. Clients include entrepreneurs, start-up companies and non-profit organizations, to middle-market and publicly traded corporations.
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Harter Secrest & Emery LLP is a full-service business law firm with attorneys throughout New York representing clients ranging from individuals and family-owned businesses to Fortune 100 companies and major regional institutions. With offices in Rochester, Buffalo, Albany, Corning, and New York City, New York, the firm and its attorneys are consistently recognized by the industry’s leading law firm and attorney ranking programs, including Chambers and Partners, Best Law Firms® and The Best Lawyers in America®.