Corporate, Securities & Tax

Strategic hire brings deep deal-making experience to a strong M&A team helping businesses navigate growth, acquisitions, exits and other complex transactions

Miles & Stockbridge, an Am Law 200 firm with more than 200 lawyers and offices in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia and New York, is pleased to announce that veteran corporate mergers and acquisitions lawyer Rita J. Piel has rejoined the firm’s Baltimore office.

Piel started her legal career as a first-year associate in the firm’s Corporate, Securities & Tax Practice Group and returns with nearly 20 years of experience as outside general counsel advising businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. She guides clients through public and private mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, business formation, contract drafting and negotiation, stockholder and member agreements and financing and investment documents, among other needs.

“Miles & Stockbridge has built one of the largest and most talented corporate and mergers and acquisition practices in the Mid-Atlantic, and Rita’s addition immediately enhances our team,” said Zachary S. Schultz, co-leader of the practice group. “Rita started her career here, and we’re excited to welcome her back.”

Piel also structures complex development and licensing agreements that incorporate business and intellectual property considerations. She advises federal, state and local government contractors on a variety of matters, including mergers and acquisitions as well as drafting and negotiating subcontractor, teaming and licensing agreements. She was previously a partner at DLA Piper in Baltimore.

“Miles and Stockbridge is in a league of its own with the level of talent of its lawyers and its business model that prioritizes client satisfaction, innovation and efficiency. I'm looking forward to introducing my clients to the firm and finding opportunities to collaborate across the firm's practice areas,” Piel said. “Throughout my time away from Miles & Stockbridge, I frequently reminisced about my first ‘home’ as a lawyer. When the opportunity arose to move my practice and have the chance to work once again with many of the lawyers I so admired, I jumped on it.”

About Miles & Stockbridge

Miles & Stockbridge is an Am Law 200 law firm with more than 200 lawyers and offices in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia and New York. The firm’s lawyers help global, national, local and emerging business clients preserve and create value by helping them solve their most challenging problems. The firm, with a highly diversified client base, boasts 12 Chambers-ranked practices. For more information, please visit the firm’s website, and follow Miles & Stockbridge on LinkedIn, Facebook and X.

Corporate & Securities Practice

Clients turn to Miles & Stockbridge, a Chambers-ranked firm, for guidance on mergers and acquisitions and their most critical business law needs. Our corporate team advises both privately held and publicly traded companies at every stage of the business life cycle —from formation and capital raising to securities offerings, strategic acquisitions, succession planning and the sale or merger of businesses. We partner with clients to achieve their business and financial goals, delivering practical, timely, and cost-efficient solutions backed by the full resources of the firm.