Firm Overview
Firm Overview
Practical Counsel. Proven Advocacy.
Clapp Ferrucci Keeler is a Fishers, Indiana law firm serving businesses, real estate professionals, property owners, lenders, developers, employers, and individuals throughout Indiana. We combine sophisticated legal experience with practical, responsive counsel focused on helping clients protect their interests, solve problems, and pursue opportunities.
Our practice includes real estate, business and corporate law, commercial and business litigation, construction, employment, healthcare and professional licensing matters, estate and probate litigation, and related administrative proceedings.
Depth Across the Issues That Matter to Your Business
Our attorneys advise clients on the full life cycle of commercial and residential real estate, including acquisitions, sales, financing, leasing, development, land-use and agency matters, and title insurance. We also counsel businesses on formation, governance, contracts, employment matters, compliance, commercial disputes, and litigation.
When disputes cannot be resolved outside the courtroom, we provide experienced representation in state and federal courts, on appeal, and before administrative agencies. Our lawyers bring substantial trial, transactional, in-house, regulatory, and business-management experience to each matter.
Our Attorneys
Sean Clapp, the firm’s founding attorney, has built a career serving corporations, lenders, developers, and property owners in significant commercial transactions and litigation, as well as routine business and real estate matters. He has tried and argued matters before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the Indiana Supreme Court, the Indiana Court of Appeals, and other state and federal courts. Sean has handled multistate real estate transactions and complex business sales and acquisitions. Sean is also a registered civil mediator.
Steve Ferrucci is an experienced business lawyer with significant in-house counsel experience. He has advised businesses on operational and legal issues involving contracts, employment, bankruptcy, environmental matters, intellectual property, product liability, risk management, mergers and acquisitions, tort claims, and workers’ compensation. His prior work as general counsel and staff counsel informs a practical approach to evaluating legal and business risk.
Ian Keeler focuses his practice on litigation and business and real estate law. He has broad experience representing real estate investors, property managers, homeowners’ associations, and business clients. Ian has handled several closely-held entity disputes, breach of contract actions, and other complex business and real estate litigation.
Thad Ailes brings more than 25 years of experience counseling and representing clients in commercial and residential real estate transactions, development, leasing, financing, entity formation, agency and licensing matters, and real estate litigation. His clients include landlords, tenants, developers, investors, lenders, owner-occupants, and brokers. Thad has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for real estate law and by Indiana Super Lawyers.
Mary Brunette has four years of litigation experience and has appeared in more than 1,000 small-claims court cases. Her practice includes evictions, business and real estate litigation, lien foreclosures, and mortgage foreclosures. Mary also routinely handles Board of Health complaints and has experience responding to Attorney General complaints.
Bruce Laconi, Of Counsel, is an experienced real estate attorney who handles complex acquisitions, sales, financing, and leasing transactions. He also helps manage the firm’s affiliated title insurance company, Mid-America Title Co., LLC, with Sean Clapp and Steve Ferrucci.
Sean White, Of Counsel, brings to the firm more than 28 years of diverse litigation experience in state and federal courts and arbitrations. His commercial-litigation practice includes shareholder and closely held-company ownership disputes, LLC-member disputes, breach of fiduciary-duty claims, creditor’s-rights litigation, commercial foreclosures, insurance-coverage disputes, sale-of-goods claims, quiet-title actions, commercial landlord-tenant and eviction proceedings, construction litigation, mechanic’s liens and bond claims, professional-liability claims, estate and trust litigation, eminent domain actions, and personal-injury matters.
Matt Foster, Of Counsel, is a business lawyer and litigator whose experience spans commercial disputes, business formation and contracts, real estate and construction disputes, employment matters, probate and estate litigation, bankruptcy, professional licensing, and state and federal litigation and appeals. He also brings unusual depth in healthcare law and regulation, including provider licensing, Medicare and Medicaid matters, regulatory surveys, reimbursement disputes, and administrative proceedings. Before returning to private practice, Matt served as Indiana’s chief regulator for numerous healthcare-provider types and as chief executive officer of a psychiatric hospital. He is licensed in Indiana and Texas.
A Client-Focused Indiana Firm
We believe effective legal representation starts with listening, understanding the client’s business and objectives, and providing clear advice. Whether the matter involves a transaction, a dispute, a regulatory issue, or a long-term business decision, we work to deliver practical solutions efficiently and with integrity.
To discuss a legal concern or opportunity, contact our Fishers office and speak with Julie Hunt, Business Manager.