Business Law

Our business law practice provides general business counseling and advice to companies to help them with internal challenges, competitive forces and regulatory requirements. We represent privately held companies and their owners in a wide variety of business, commercial and personal matters. Our attorneys have strong financial, tax and accounting backgrounds which enable them to provide cost effective, practical solutions to legal issues facing businesses in today’s dynamic market.
 

Our general corporate services address our client’s legal needs in the following areas: 

Ownership Issues

• Choice of entity, business structure and business formation
• Drafting owner agreements: shareholder, operating and partnership agreements
• Buy-Sell agreements, cross-purchase and redemption agreements
• Business succession plans and strategies
• Corporate governance
• Ownership dispute resolution
• Ownership succession
• Entity dissolutions

Transactional Matters

• Drafting and negotiating business agreements
• Employee and consulting agreements
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Sales and divestitures
• Leasing real property
• Financing arrangements for lenders and borrowers

Taxation

• Tax planning for businesses and business owners
• Business and individual tax compliance
• State and local tax planning
• Tax planning for structured transactions
• Tax audits, tax controversy and tax disputes
• Estate tax planning for business owners