Goldstein & McHugh P.C. is committed to providing comprehensive legal representation and commercial guidance to clients in the restaurant/tavern, food service and hospitality industries. We offer a unique blend of experience and innovation, and are equally as comfortable representing publicly-traded national businesses as we are your local, neighborhood restaurant.

Goldstein & McHugh P.C. offers more than thirty-five years of legal experience to assist our clients with the purchase or sale of a business, alcoholic beverage licensing at the state (PLCB) and federal (ATF) levels, purchase or lease of real estate, commercial lending/borrowing, and defense of enforcement actions against your license, via citations, nuisance bar proceedings, or threatened revocation or non-renewal actions.

We also bring much needed vitality and innovation to complement our expertise. In the near future, this website will offer to our clients a marketplace of licenses, businesses and properties for sale, or wanted for purchase, available for our clients’ convenience. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for industry updates of interest.

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Edward B. McHugh received his B.S. from LaSalle University in 1988 and his Juris Doctor from Widener University School of Law in 1995. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He began his legal career as a prosecutor with the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement of the Pennsylvania State Police, representing the BLCE in Philadelphia, Delaware and Chester Counties before administrative tribunals and in trial and appellate courts. He made the transition to private practice in 2003 and began representing clients in the hospitality industry, both in commercial transactions as well as in licensing and enforcement matters. He joined the law firm of Goldstein, Friedberg & Goldstein, PC in 2004. Mr. McHugh handles all commercial transactions, licensing and renewal matters (including threatened non-renewal and revocation proceedings), citations and nuisance enforcement actions, and general litigation for clients in the hospitality industry.

Michele Wynn earned a paralegal certificate from the American Institute for Paralegal Studies in 1992. She has extensive experience in various fields of law including liquor licensing, real estate, corporate, litigation, workers’ compensation, social security disability, personal injury, estate planning, and criminal defense.