John F. Nobbs

John Nobbs is an attorney in Bowles Rice's Southpointe, Pennsylvania, office. His broad business-focused practice helps closely held businesses during their entire life cycle, including from start-up to wind-down.

John provides entity structure advice to clients who are forming business entities, including corporations, LLCs, partnerships, and joint ventures. He also provides ongoing counseling for a wide array of corporate governance, commercial and transactional matters and for a broad spectrum of businesses, including the manufacturing, transportation, construction, dental, hospitality, technology, retail, and services industries. John also assists clients in the formation and counseling of nonprofit entities.

John drafts, interprets, and advises clients on a wide range of business contracts and agreements, including for international transactions. Related thereto, he assists in the review, negotiation, and documentation of loan and financing arrangements, including secured and unsecured transactions.

John represents individuals to purchase or sell their business through assets or stock sales and advises owners on succession planning. He also represents all sizes of businesses through mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other major restructuring transactions.

John also has a wealth of experience in commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, sales, leasing, and investment matters.

John is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and California.

• Selected to the Pennsylvania Rising Stars list by Super Lawyers, 2005-2008, 2010

• Allegheny County Bar Association (Chair – Corporate, Banking and Business Law Section, 2024-2026)
• American Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• California Bar Association