Chris Catanzaro joins The Charter Law Group as a Franchise & Business Attorney who is intently focused on delivering service-oriented business and legal counsel for organizations, both large and small. Chris also serves as the Managing Director of our Leasable platform, assisting tenants and franchisees around the country with their commercial lease review needs in an effective and efficient manner.

Chris has extensive experience in contract negotiation, risk management, and general business guidance, and is well versed in advising clients in a manner which appropriately balances organizational need and risk allocation.

Over the course of his career Chris has served and advised within various in-house legal environments, mostly in the medical industry, and has benefited greatly as an attorney from a wide variety of exposure to complex legal matters in need of creative solutions. Chris has guided organizations on a myriad of legal issues, including real estate matters, global compliance with applicable laws and regulations, physician consulting, vendor contracting, commercial contracting, supply chain and distribution networks, and clinical trial contracting, among others. Additionally, Chris has experience in the legal review of marketing materials, product disclaimers and warranties, and governmental compliance.

Chris is a cum laude graduate of the Salmon P. Chase College of Law and is admitted to the Ohio Bar. After completing his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree at Shawnee State University, Chris continued to pursue his passion for serving business clients into a legal career at Northern Kentucky University, where Chris participated in the Bruce Lunsford Academy, a program intended for qualifying law students to combine legal and business education via an honors curriculum. While he finds great fulfillment in helping organizations to achieve business goals, Chris also spent time during law school providing pro bono assistance to a local firm working to expunge records of criminal offenses by victims of human trafficking. These efforts were focused on the end goal of assisting such victims to regain visitation rights with their children, find gainful employment, and secure safe and sustainable housing.

Chris is a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel. Outside of the office, Chris loves watching sports, especially baseball, football, and hockey, and can be found most summer evenings watching or listening to the Cincinnati Reds while fancying himself, perhaps debatably, a grill master. Chris’ main passion in life is centered around his wife, his sons, and an ever-growing assortment of pets including cats, Alfie, Jackie, and Indo, and a wily Jack Russell/Beagle mix named Howzer.