Peter is the chair of the Firm's Business Practice and also oversees its Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity/Venture Capital and Corporate Finance Practices. Peter works with entrepreneurs, emerging businesses, private equity funds and public companies to help them achieve their goals. He helps clients in all stages of business – from strategic planning to debt and equity financings, board and governance counseling, executive and incentive compensation, technology and complex business transactions and other commercial arrangements, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, corporate succession planning and divestitures.

Representative clients in recent matters include: American Greetings Corporation, Avery Dennison Corporation, CapitalWorks LLC, Cleveland Cavaliers, Cliffs Natural Resources, Emergency Medicine Physicians, IMG Worldwide, Jo-Ann Stores, Inc., KCC Investors, Key Principal Partners, The Kirby Company, Kirtland Capital Partners, Lake Erie Monsters Professional Hockey Club, Quicken Loans Arena, NetCash, Park-Ohio Holdings Corporation, Revol, The Scott Fetzer Company, World Book, and various financial institutions.