Joseph Hemberger represents a wide variety of businesses, holding companies, landlords, tenants, and developers in the sale, purchase, leasing, financing, development, and construction of personal and real property. His experience includes the purchase, sale, and lease of 33 separate nursing homes in Kansas and Missouri, the purchase of six hotels in Kansas and several multimillion dollar office building transactions.
Mr. Hemberger represents a number of banks in all facets of lending, organization and day-to-day operations, such as entity formation and regulatory approval, stock issuance, documenting loans and loan workouts, and representing secured creditors in bankruptcy court and in complex litigation involving collections.
Mr. Hemberger represents multiple brokers and shippers of goods in the trucking and transportation industry. He is currently general counsel for Kansas City Peterbilt, Inc. and Utility Trailer Sales of Kansas City, Inc., and he was Kansas City Peterbilt, Inc.'s general manager from 1998 to 2001, gaining valuable experience in a large business's daily operations and in the transportation industry.
Mr. Hemberger's experience in commercial litigation is expansive, involving all manners of transactions and business-related torts. His knowledge of business transactions enables him to litigate claims, such as breaches of contract, business torts, bankruptcy, and related commercial disputes.
His representative clients include HRPT Properties Trust, Jemsite Development Company, HHC Hotels, L.L.C., Precision Homes, L.L.C., Cunningham Properties, Donaldson Properties, United Government of Kansas City/Wyandotte County, Kansas, Town & Country Bank, The Security Bank of Kansas City, Valley State Bank, Great Western Bank, Bank of Durango, The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, J&J Driveaway, Global Logistics Solutions, L.L.C., Midland Railway Association, Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, Bishop Miege High School, and Kansas City Kansas Community College.
Mr. Hemberger is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell. He is active in his church and his children's school by serving on both the school council and finance council.