Our Team

Nicolosi PC is founded on a 70-year tradition of serving closely-held/family businesses and private medical practices. Our mission is simply to help owners meet the increasing demands placed on their business. We do this through our expertise in the law and business, our highly personalized attention and our ability to provide clients with quick, affordable and effective service.

Our goal has remained simple: to support and serve our clients effectively and fairly. These simple principals together with our accesability, have earned our firm a reputation for achieving powerful results for our clients who have rewarded us with continued trust and referrals.

Paul Nicolosi

Paul Nicolosi

Founder
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Direct: (815) 378-2454
Email: paul@nicolosipc.com

Mr. Nicolosi provides highly personalized counsel to individuals, family, and closely-held businesses, nonprofits, and local governments. His clients appreciate his availability, familiarity, and attentiveness to the issues that are important to them. They routinely turn to him for quick input on routine matters and guidance on the strategic, personal, and business issues that impact their lives. Mr. Nicolosi’s advice is grounded in a solid command of the law, business, his personal experience in owning and operating closely held family businesses, and serving in senior management of national organizations.

Mr. Nicolosi’s decades of experience along with his expertise in the law, finance, economics, and business strategy all come together to provide his clients with highly effective input on their issues. His advice is sought on a wide variety of issues including those involving governance, debt & equity planning, mergers & acquisitions, economic development, inter-governmental collaborations, public-private partnerships, facility planning, and site selection initiatives, economic incentive procurement, and owner’s agency services for capital projects. Mr. Nicolosi is a seasoned commercial transaction and public entity attorney with more than 25 years of experience. He regularly speaks and writes on financial topics, is a respectful and passionate advocate for his clients, and has a remarkable ability to help clients and their teams achieve goals

Thom Keeling

Thom Keeling

Partner
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Direct: (815) 669-1749
Email: tkeeling@nicolosipc.com

Thom Keeling leverages his extensive experience in strategy development, operations, and management to bring unique perspectives and valuable insights to his clients. He has held senior management positions in several Fortune 500 companies and has a track record of growing businesses profitably. Over the course of his career Mr. Keeling has provided strategic advisory services to companies in a broad range of industries including: information technology, financial services, business services, petro-chemicals, transportation, medical products and services, building supplies, automotive after-market, agri-business and consumer products.

Mr. Keeling has helped his clients develop and execute well designed strategies and programs including market entry into adjacent markets and new geographies, new product introductions, acquisitions, partnerships, divestitures, corporate reengineering and turn-arounds, business continuity planning, business consolidations, business relocations, organizational design, and process optimization.

Courtney Cocciemiglio

Courtney Cocciemiglio

Associate
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Direct: (815) 526-0430
Email: courtney@nicolosipc.com

In addition to her law degree, Ms. Cocciemiglio holds a degree in architecture and a master’s degree in business administration. Utilizing her education along with her project planning experience, she skillfully helps clients oversee the scoping, budgeting and managing of capital projects. Ms. Cocciemiglio is particularly adept at helping clients segregate capital projects into work-packets which allow clients to obtain optimal pricing, identify qualified bidders, and eliminate redundancies and gaps between service providers. Her organized, intelligent and friendly approach allows her to be an integral part of client projects.

Ms. Cocciemiglio’s practice also includes advising clients on the regulatory issues that impact the development of real property including zoning, entitlements, economic development incentives, and other routine issues.