Reich Welborn is a business attorney with more than 40 years of experience advising closely held companies, professional practices, and healthcare organizations on complex transactions and long-term growth strategies. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, business succession planning, healthcare transactions, and real estate and financing matters, with experience spanning small business deals to multi-million-dollar transactions.
Reich regularly represents business owners in mergers, acquisitions, and exit planning, helping clients structure transactions that protect value, manage risk, and support long-term objectives. He also advises physician groups and other professional service organizations—including architects, engineers, psychologists and clinical research organizations—on acquisitions, mergers, recruitment, management and employment contracts, and operational legal matters.
A recognized leader in complex business transactions, Reich represents both buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions and works closely with family-owned and closely held businesses on succession planning, business protection, and transition strategies. In his healthcare practice, he serves physician groups and provider organizations on growth initiatives, employment negotiations, and strategic restructuring. Reich also brings extensive experience in real estate and finance, representing lenders, developers, and tenants in a wide range of transactions. He advises corporate clients on major relocations, including site selection, land acquisition and assembly, contract negotiation, construction matters, and financing.
Reich has been recognized as a North Carolina Top Rated Lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected for North Carolina’s Legal Elite, Super Lawyers, and The Best Lawyers in America®. In 2025, Best Lawyers in America® named him “Lawyer of the Year” (Raleigh) for Mergers and Acquisitions Law.