Chuck Kegler

Chuck Kegler is a Columbus business lawyer, director, and chair of the Corporate Practice at Kegler Brown Hill + Ritter. He advises middle-market companies and owners on corporate tax, business planning, mergers, acquisitions, and succession planning. His work includes formations, shareholder agreements, complex partnership and corporate agreements, confidentiality agreements, and non-competition agreements. Clients rely on his guidance when transactions, ownership changes, and tax-sensitive decisions require practical planning and judgment for important business goals.

Chuck earned a J.D. from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He also received a B.S. from The Ohio State University. His education supports a practice built on legal analysis, tax planning, and business judgment. That foundation helps him review transaction structures, evaluate ownership interests, draft agreements, and guide companies through decisions involving corporate governance, succession, estate planning, and long-term business continuity for owners and family enterprises alike.

Chuck advises buyers, sellers, private equity groups, and business owners on complex transactions and ownership transitions. His experience includes mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, reorganizations, joint ventures, and leveraged recapitalizations. He has worked with clients in manufacturing, health care distribution, restaurant, franchising, retail, construction materials, technology, advertising, marketing, and professional services. Through these matters, he helps clients structure deals, manage tax issues, and preserve long-term business value during major ownership changes.

Chuck Kegler is recognized by Chambers USA as a Senior Statesperson for Corporate/M&A and has also been listed by Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and Columbus CEO Top Lawyers. He is active in bar and civic groups connected to tax, business, estate planning, and community service. His long career reflects steady counsel for private companies, owners, and families planning transactions, succession, and future business stability with practical judgment and experienced perspective.

Law Office Affiliations

• Director, Kegler Brown Hill + Ritter
• Member, American Bar Association, Taxation, Corporation, Banking and Business Law sections
• Member, Columbus Bar Association
• Member, Columbus Foundation
• Member, Ohio State Bar Association

Licensed State

• Ohio

Education

• The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• The Ohio State University
  Bachelor of Science (BS)

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