Trusted counsel for privately held businesses across mergers, acquisitions, commercial real estate, financing, and franchise — forged over three decades of practice.
Trusted by Established Organizations Across Northwest Indiana
For more than three decades, Yahne Law has advised closely held businesses through the transactions that define them — acquisitions, dispositions, developments, and the hard conversations in between. Every engagement is treated as a named matter, not a file number.
Clients choose the firm for direct attorney access, substantive judgment, and outcomes that hold up long after closing. When the stakes are real, a seasoned counselor matters more than a large team.
Each engagement is shaped by the matter at hand — bringing pattern recognition and practical judgment to transactions that demand both.
Drafting, negotiating, and finalizing purchase and sale agreements alongside ancillary documents — disclosure schedules, employment agreements, and guarantees.
Sale, acquisition, development, and leasing — including due diligence, title, survey analysis, and representation before zoning boards and redevelopment commissions.
Structuring and documenting financing arrangements that support growth, acquisition, and disposition strategies.
Counseling franchisors and franchisees through formation, disclosure, expansion, and dispute matters.
Entity formation, corporate governance, growth strategy, and disposition or exit planning.
Reviewing, negotiating, and drafting commercial agreements — service contracts, vendor agreements, NDAs, and operating agreements with the precision your business demands.
Decades of cross-industry counsel inform every transaction — bringing pattern recognition and practical judgment to matters that demand both.
Selection of business form and the operational matters that follow — from formation through transition.
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For more than three decades, Scott Yahne has built a practice around the idea that the best legal counsel is also the most personal.
Scott founded Yahne Law to bring something rare to legal practice: counsel that knows your business as well as you do. Every engagement begins with a conversation — about goals, history, and what success actually looks like. From there, the work that follows is shaped by context, not template.
That approach has built a practice where many client relationships span decades. New matters often come from referrals — handed across families, businesses, and generations. It's the most meaningful endorsement a firm can earn.
Scott Yahne addresses the Hammond Redevelopment Commission — representing client interests in a public forum.
Hammond Redevelopment Commission Meeting · City of Hammond, Indiana
When you reach out, you reach Scott personally. Every call, every matter, every decision — the attorney whose name is on the door is the attorney who handles the work alongside you.
Three decades across construction, real estate, healthcare, energy, hospitality, and professional services means walking into matters with real context. The legal work is shaped by an understanding of the industry — not just the statute.
A formation today, an acquisition in five years, a succession plan in fifteen. The firm grows alongside its clients — and the depth of those relationships is what makes every subsequent engagement stronger.
Many of Yahne Law's strongest relationships began with a single matter and grew into multigenerational counsel — guiding the same families and businesses through formation, growth, and transition.
Closely held businesses
Owners and operators who view their counsel as a long-term partner. Yahne Law thrives in relationships where principals know the lawyer's first name — and trust them with the matters that shape the future of the business.
Builders and developers
Real estate operators navigating acquisitions, dispositions, and developments. Decades of cross-deal experience inform every engagement, ensuring closings are clean and structures hold for the long horizon.
Professional services groups
Medical practices, partnerships, and regulated businesses where governance, succession, and partner dynamics matter as much as the legal precision behind them.
Family-led operations
Multigenerational businesses planning for growth, succession, or transition — where careful counsel and absolute discretion are essential to honoring both the legacy and the future.
What began as one attorney's commitment to a different way of practicing has become a firm known across Northwest Indiana for steady, hands-on counsel. The model has stayed simple: the senior attorney handles the work, the relationship comes first, and the result is counsel clients can rely on for the long term.
Whether you are forming a business, navigating a complex transaction, or planning the next chapter, Yahne Law brings three decades of experience and a genuine investment in your success.
New matters are reviewed and responded to promptly.
Schedule a ConsultationComprehensive counsel across mergers, real estate, financing, franchise, business planning, and contracts — informed by three decades of cross-industry experience.
Yahne Law's practice is intentionally focused — six disciplines that share a common thread. Most engagements span more than one. A real estate transaction often involves financing. A business sale almost always touches contracts. The firm's depth comes from a single attorney holding all the threads at once.
Each practice area below reflects work the firm handles directly — not a list of services it advertises but rarely performs. Click through to see the matters typically handled in each.
Drafting, negotiating, and finalizing purchase and sale agreements alongside the ancillary documents that determine whether a deal holds.
The firm represents both buyers and sellers, with particular depth in middle-market transactions for closely held businesses. Each engagement is led by senior counsel from initial term sheet through post-closing matters.
Sale, acquisition, development, and leasing — including the granular work of due diligence, title, and survey analysis that separates clean closings from costly ones.
Decades advising builders, developers, and investors on transactions across Northwest Indiana — from single-property deals to multi-parcel developments.
Land use, zoning approvals, and entitlement counsel for developers, owners, and investors navigating local boards and commissions.
From rezoning petitions and variance requests to special exception hearings, the firm represents clients before plan commissions, boards of zoning appeals, and redevelopment commissions across Northwest Indiana.
Structuring and documenting financing arrangements that support growth, acquisition, and disposition strategies.
Whether a closely held business needs senior debt for an acquisition or a developer requires construction financing, the firm structures terms that align with the underlying transaction.
Counseling franchisors and franchisees through formation, disclosure, expansion, and dispute matters.
A specialized practice that demands both transactional fluency and a deep understanding of regulatory frameworks — the firm has advised on franchise matters at every stage of the lifecycle.
Entity formation, corporate governance, growth strategy, and disposition or exit planning — the foundational work that determines whether a business is built to scale, transfer, or sell.
The firm's planning practice is shaped by the perspective of having closed hundreds of transactions on the other side. The structures it builds are the ones it knows hold up at the closing table.
Reviewing, negotiating, and drafting commercial agreements with the precision your business demands.
Every operating business runs on contracts. The firm drafts and reviews the agreements that protect — service contracts, vendor agreements, NDAs, and operating documents — with the same rigor it applies to nine-figure transactions.
A typical M&A transaction requires loan documentation, security agreements, and lender negotiations — all handled in-house, on a single timeline.
Development deals require lease agreements, vendor contracts, and operating documents — every layer drafted with the same eye for detail.
A well-drafted operating agreement today shapes how a sale, succession, or partner buyout unfolds years from now. Planning work pays dividends across every other practice.
Eight standards. Earned over thirty years. Applied to every engagement, regardless of size.
Every matter receives the attention of senior counsel. Yahne Law operates by deliberate scale — taking on engagements where direct partner involvement, careful judgment, and quiet diligence carry more weight than billable volume.
The firm rejects the leverage model that defines most of the legal industry. Junior associates do not run matters here. Counsel is not delegated. The work that bears Yahne Law's name is the work Scott has personally drafted, negotiated, and signed.
The result is a practice known for closing the deals that matter, on terms that hold — and for client relationships that span decades, not transactions.
Direct attorney access
New matter response
Confidentiality
A practice built on direct relationships and deals that hold.
Scott founded Yahne Law to provide the kind of counsel he wished he could deliver inside a larger firm — direct, substantive, and built around long client relationships rather than billing pressure.
With more than three decades of experience advising privately held businesses, Scott brings a rare combination of transactional fluency and practical judgment to every matter. His practice spans mergers and acquisitions, commercial real estate, financing, and franchise — across industries from health care, manufacturing, construction, contracting services, professional services and commercial development.
Scott is licensed to practice in Indiana and has served on Boards, including many chair appointments for non-profit organizations throughout Northwest Indiana — work that has shaped both his practice and his philosophy.
Outside the practice, Scott is active in the regional business community and maintains a network of trusted advisors — accountants, bankers, investment advisors — that he draws on to round out client teams when matters require it.
Jeremiah keeps the firm's day-to-day operations running smoothly — coordinating client communications, managing matter files, and ensuring nothing falls between the cracks.
Often the first point of contact for new and existing clients, Jeremiah brings a calm, professional presence to every interaction.
Reach out by phone or the provided form. New matters are reviewed and responded to promptly.
