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Indianapolis business attorney Brian Powers represents business clients in a variety of corporate transactional matters, with an emphasis on entrepreneurial legal services, startup companies, mergers and acquisitions, and internet law, technology law, and software licensing law. Brian Powers also advises established business clients on a broad range of matters, including complex business and commercial transactions, real estate, regulatory compliance, business advisory services. strategic planning, business restructurings, and general corporate counseling. His clients have included companies in the technology, software, real estate, healthcare, manufacturing, construction, advertising & marketing, hospitality, retail sector, auto auction and private equity sectors.

Before becoming an attorney, Brian Powers was an entrepreneur and founded and operating two different internet start-up companies, engaging in all aspects of the start-up process including entity formation, business planning, and raising capital via private placement from angel investors. Prior to his entrepreneurial years, he worked as an environmental engineer for a large Indianapolis based engineering consulting firm. These experiences prior to practicing law allow Brian Powers to better understand the business and legal needs of his clients, allowing him to advise clients in a meaningful, easy to understand manner.

Keith lives in Carmel, Indiana with his wife and four children. He represents individual and institutional investors in disputes against their broker or brokerage firm.

Rabeh M. A. Soofi is an attorney at Ice Miller LLP. Rabeh practices in the areas of general civil and business litigation, insurance coverage disputes, and estate/trust/probate litigation and controversies.

Civil and Business Litigation
Rabeh's civil and business litigation experience involves helping clients resolve a variety of disputes, including:

Business Contracts and Agreements, including purchase, performance, employment, service agreements, and other contract;
Protection of Business Data, including the misappropriation of sensitive and proprietary business information, data, and trade secrets;
Securities/FINRA Litigation, involving agent/broker liability;
Managers, Directors and Officers Liability Claims, alleging breaches of fiduciary duty, self-dealing, negligent controls, inadequate oversight, depletion of corporate assets, and other mismanagement of corporate affairs;
Property Litigation, including real estate, ownership/title, landlord/tenant disputes quiet title actions, and mechanic's liens;
General Defense and Prosecution, of business and personal tort claims, including personal injury, fraud, negligence, employee misconduct, slander/defamation actions and others.

Insurance Law and Regulation
Rabeh's experience with insurance law and regulation includes working with policyholders, carriers, and regulatory agencies on litigating or otherwise resolving a variety of disputes. Rabeh has represented clients and litigated coverage issues under commercial general liability, business owners policy, directors and officers, personal lines, auto, disability/accident, title insurance, and excess/umbrella policies. Rabeh has experience with various types of claims including agent/broker liability, first and third party property loss, casualty, fire loss, environmental/long tail, theft/embezzlement, personal injury, products liability, construction defect, faulty workmanship, directors/officers liability, errors/omissions, toxic tort, reinsurance, subrogation, and extracontractual/bad faith claims. Rabeh is involved with the American Bar Association's Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, was a speaker for the 2009 Mid-Year meeting, and is a member of the Planning Committee for 2010.

Estate, Trust, and Probate Litigation
Rabeh's estate, trust, and probate litigation practice consists of assisting institutions, testators, settlors, grantors, trustees, beneficiaries, and other fiduciaries with a variety of trust/probate disputes, including:

Estate Litigation, representing both beneficiaries and estate executors, representatives, administrators, and other fiduciaries in claims alleging mismanagement of estate assets, will contests, intermeddler claims, breaches of fiduciary duty, and other alleged misdeeds;
Trust Litigation, representing institutions and trustees in claims alleging breaches of fiduciary duty, negligent administration, imprudent investment, improper asset diversification, hedging, and collaring, self-dealing, fiduciary fee disputes, trust liquidation, trust reformation. Rabeh has experience litigating Revocable/Irrevocable Trusts, Life Insurance Trusts, Property Trusts, Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts and Unitrusts;
Guardianships and Conservatorships;
Beneficiaries' Remedies, and other similar matters.

Background
Rabeh is active in the Indianapolis community and is involved with various organizations. Rabeh is Chair of the Indianapolis, Indiana Chapter of The List Project, an organization providing resettlement assistance to Iraqi refugees providing services to U.S. forces and allies in the Gulf.

Rabeh has devoted over 300 hours to pro bono matters, and in May of 2008, Rabeh was named as an "Up and Coming" Lawyer by the Indiana Lawyer. In April of 2006, Rabeh was also named on the Indianapolis Bar Association's "2006 Hall of Fame."

As an immigrant from her native country of Iran, Rabeh earned her Bachelor of Arts in political science and history from the University of Michigan, and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Notre Dame School of Law where she was Managing Editor of the Notre Dame Journal of Legislation.

Rabeh is admitted to practice law in the State of Indiana as well as the United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana.