Chicago, IL Lawyers

Health Care Law

368 W Huron St #100, Chicago, IL 60654, USA

Elias Matsakis' practice transcends multiple legal disciplines where he has led teams of attorneys in complex transactions and served as the trusted advisor to numerous businesses, entrepreneurs, and high net worth individuals. In his new practice, he will leverage that experience to provide counseling and guidance. For more substantial matters, he will co-counsel with his former colleagues to build the appropriate team with the requisite capacity to meet client needs. For many years, he served as the practice group leader for Holland & Knight's Illinois Business Attorneys and as the head of its Illinois Healthcare and Life Sciences Team. In those capacities, and as the lead attorney, he collaborated frequently with his law firm’s corporate, real estate and finance attorneys in signature real estate and corporate merger and acquisition projects both locally and across the nation. For the past 30 years, his practice has also focused on the representation of physician organizations, physician management companies and health systems in a wide range of matters including integration and alignment transactions, managed care contracting, technology deployment, joint ventures, Accountable Care Organizations, healthcare networks, and regulatory compliance matters. He is also experienced in the representation of skilled nursing and senior living development mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Mr. Matsakis assists large nonprofit organizations in corporate governance and conflict policies. In the role of counselor for large privately-held businesses he has served as their principal legal strategist in both their growth and litigation needs. In that capacity he has had substantial experience in dispute resolution and has successfully negotiated numerous significant settlements of complex “bet the company” commercial litigation matters across multiple industries and in complex estate disputes. Mr. Matsakis devotes a significant amount of his time to pro bono matters on behalf of local charitable and religious organizations. Mr. Matsakis' leadership skills have been recognized both by his former firm where he had served for many years as a member of its Directors Committee and the Executive partner of its 150 lawyer Chicago Office and by the community where he served on the District 225 Board of Education for six years, a school district of approximately 4500 students.

Civil Litigation

70 W Madison, 5200, Chicago, IL 60602

Floyd Perkins, CPA, is a partner with over 27 years of experience as a trial lawyer. He has successfully litigated hundreds of fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, healthcare recoupment, probate and commercial cases. Floyd has practiced in state and federal court, including the Illinois Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Criminal Defense Law

35 E. Wacker Dr., Suite 1980, Chicago, IL 60601

Gal Pissetzky devotes his life to defending the rights of those accused of a variety of state and federal criminal felony charges. Mr. Pissetzky has taken hundreds of cases to trial both before a jury and before a judge. He has litigated Fourth and Fifth Amendment motions in which law enforcement violated his clients Constitutional rights. Mr. Pissetzky has handled multi-issue complex trials and appeals. He has argued before the Illinois Supreme Court, as well as numerous Illinois and Federal Appellate Courts. His practice focuses on defending clients accused of white collar crimes, violent crime, and sex offenses, and large-scale drug crimes. He has been vigorously representing clients in both the state and federal court systems for well over a decade and a half. Located in Chicago, he represents clients throughout Illinois and the country. Mr. Pissetzky prides himself on providing superior client service. He is truly dedicated to protecting the rights of his clients.

Criminal Defense Law

875 North Michigan Avenue, 3100, Chicago, IL 60611

Area of Practice: Counterterrorism and Human Rights Law Founder of MM~LAW LLC, a law firm dedicated to advancing private human rights law by representation of victims of international terrorism, crimes against humanity, and genocide in civil lawsuits to force accountability upon the financiers and aiders and abettors of the perpetrators of such crimes. Mairone has created a counterterrorism research group to support such litigation that conducts legal operational research on international money laundering and finance of jihadi terrorist organizations in Arabic, Farsi, English, French, German, Kurdish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Hebrew. He has over 35 years of legal experience specializing in international taxation and business planning and specializing over the last two decades in international human rights and humanitarian law, counterterrorism, transnational, and tort law. Mairone serves on the International Human Rights Committee of the American Bar Association and the Subcommittees on Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and Corporate Responsibility. From 2012-2018, he volunteered as an ECOSOC delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Council. He is also a member the American Association for Justice, the American Society of International Law, and the International Legal Team of the Kurdish Regional Government Group for the Recognition of the Kurdish Genocide, in Washington D.C. and London. Admitted to practice: Illinois, Florida, New York and District of Columbia. Education: LL.M. Taxation, New York University Graduate School of Law; Juris Doctor Summa Cum Laude, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law, B.A. Philosophy, Hebrew University and Spertus College of Judaica. Mairone is an expert in international money laundering and terrorist financing and a pioneer in the development of legal remedies available to victims of violations of international human rights law.

Family and Divorce Law

150 N Michigan Ave, Ste 3600, Chicago, IL 60601