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Houston-based Team Represented NOVUM Consulting Group in New Partnership
Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s Houston-based team, led by Habeeb ‘Hobbs’ Gnaim, represented NOVUM Consulting Group (Novum) in new partnership with Aperture, LLC (Aperture), a Trinity Hunt Partners (THP) portfolio company.
Headquartered in The Woodlands, TX, NOVUM provides financial consulting services and expert witness services to law firms and corporate clients across the country, including major intellectual property litigation and complex business litigation matters, as well as advising in patent acquisitions/dispositions, licensing, valuation, and/or financing arrangements.
Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s attorneys Umair Karowadia (Tax Planning & Business Transactions), Marianne Standley (Tax Planning & Business Transactions), Pearson Wolk (Tax Planning & Business Transactions), Aly Dossa (Intellectual Property), Kellen Scott (Labor & Employment), Joshua Sutin (Employee Benefits) and Jeffrey Della Rocco (Employee Benefits) assisted with the transaction.
"I am extremely excited to share the news of NOVUM partnering with Aperture,” said Stephen Dell, NOVUM’s founder. “Partnering with Aperture will be instrumental for the NOVUM team to continue to give our clients the best-in-class service they are accustomed to. We are truly excited to begin this next chapter with Aperture and to continue delivering exceptional results to our clients from an ever-expanding platform of talent."
Gnaim, shareholder at Chamberlain Hrdlicka, serves as the head of the Tax Planning & Business Transactions group. He focuses his practice on tax and corporate matters and has significant experience in all aspects of structuring, negotiating, and implementing business acquisitions and dispositions, corporate reorganizations, mergers, conversions, recapitalizations, deferred recognition transactions, admissions of and providing equity incentives for management and key employees, as well as choice of entity considerations, and state tax planning. Known for a high volume of transactions, Gnaim has built a reputation as a go-to tax and corporate counsel for middle-market transactions. A number of Gnaim’s deals have garnered recognition this year, including most two Deal of the Year Awards by the Association for Corporate Growth (Houston), as well as the Global M&A Network’s M&A Atlas Awards, where two of Gnaim’s deals won Deal of the Year and he was named Lawyer of the Year.
Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s Tax Planning & Business Transactions practice helps clients understand the byzantine world of tax law and utilizes that highly specialized tax knowledge to clients’ best advantage when doing business transactions. The practice advises clients with transactions in order to maximize tax benefits - and avoid tax disasters. Whether the transactions are related to a business or involves a personal investment, the Tax Planning & Business Transactions team can help structure and carry out transactions in order to achieve the best corporate results under federal, state, local and international tax laws.