Business Structure
- Advice and counsel on formation of business entities including C corporations, S corporations, general and limited liability companies.
- Guidance for selecting an entity structure that meets your needs.
- Help structuring and negotiating Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) structures and loans.
- Aid navigating transactions—including acquisition and leasing of real and personal property.
Governance
- Assist our business clients through the intricate and often confusing relationships with stockholders, partners, officers and directors.
- Provide a trusted legal partner to help clients navigate through ever-changing regulations and case law.
- Help shape and define tasks, relationships and roles among officers, directors and shareholders of a corporation, partners in general and limited partnerships and joint ventures and members and managers of limited liability companies.
- Counsel clients with respect to governance policy as well as changes in the law over time.
- Ensure managers throughout an organization are communicating and informed at all levels.
- Establish optimal procedures for management of the company’s internal behavior.
- Enable clients to smartly navigate questions where the interests of different stakeholders and shareholders diverge.
Financial Planning
- Assist with capital formation and short- and long-term financing with traditional institutional lenders and also less obvious sources of funding.
- Advise on plans for stock awards for employees or seeking internal or external sources of capital.
- The creation of timely, practical and efficient advice and deal documents.
- Work with clients and their outside financial advisors on executive compensation and severance issues.
- Clear, consistent advice on the pros and cons of any financial transaction, keeping clients constantly informed.
Employment
- Advice on employment matters including the preparation of handbooks and employment applications.
- Provide guidance in the hiring and termination of employees.
Intellectual Property
- Help protecting valuable intellectual property rights such as domestic and international trademarks, patents and copyrights.
Litigation
We know the high toll of litigation. When disputes arise, we strategize with you to find creative solutions to resolve disputes, short of costly litigation, including arbitration and mediation. We view our role as a business advisor and personal planner, solving problems, not merely explaining the law.
An entire firm at your service
We can tap into expertise across our organization to work as one team with colleagues in related areas. Through this combined effort, we can represent and serve your company’s needs with taxation and assessment, business succession planning and structuring executive compensation using techniques that reward key employees while building loyalty to owners.
Our lawyers offer hands-on experience in analyzing and structuring transactions in order to obtain optimal federal and state income and transfer tax consequences. We also work closely and collaborate with you and your accountants, tax professionals and business consultants to address the various legal and financial issues encountered in closely held businesses.