Handling All Your Corporate Law Needs
Choosing and Structuring Entities for New Businesses
Choosing the proper legal entities for your new business is essential. We can help you create a new business entity or convert an existing business into one of the following entities: corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company, or partnership. Depending on your chosen entity, we may need to draft partnership, shareholder, or operating agreements. In those formation documents, we also can address dissolution, liquidation, buy-sell provisions, succession planning, and tax planning should those events occur in the future.
Negotiating and Preparing Business-Related Agreements
You will need various business-related contracts and agreements to operate your business correctly as a business owner. These contracts may include:
- Employment agreements
- Covenants not to compete
- Confidentiality agreements
- Real estate leases and purchase and sale agreements
- Service agreements
Advising You on Employment-Related Matters
While you are operating your business, you likely will encounter the need for periodic legal advice, particularly concerning your employees. We can help you prepare employee manuals and policies designed to avoid future legal problems. We can set up pension and profit-sharing plans, IRAs, and Roth conversions for you and your colleagues. If a legal matter involving an employee does arise, we can give you legal advice about how to handle the situation best while minimizing any disruptions to your business operations.
Facilitating the Merger and Sale of Businesses
When it comes time to sell your business, we can walk you through the emotional process of selling a business you have spent years or decades growing, whether alone, with business partners or family members. We can guide you through every step of the process, from assisting with finding and vetting potential buyers, negotiating the purchase price, payment terms and other salient terms of the sale, protecting you and your business through the use of non-disclosure agreements, term sheets and letters of intent, prior to proceeding with negotiating, structuring, drafting and review of the transaction documents. We can structure the sale of your business to minimize adverse tax consequences, as well as to protect the proceeds of your business sale from creditors and other parties.
