BUSINESS FORMATION
This Firm is passionate about equipping our clients for their vocational callings. We’ve made it our mission to help align our clients’ passions, giftedness, life experiences, and opportunities to better prepare them for their business ventures and the pursuit of their entrepreneurial dreams.
In that spirit, we love helping our clients set up new businesses! We tailor the creation and formation of each business to your specific needs, ensuring your company is flexible for future growth while protecting your ownership interests and potential personal legal liabilities.
We want to help make your business flourish!
SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS
From the start and formation of your business to disputes that need resolution, owners need to be protected and businesses need effective legal help to be successful. We work closely with small business owners to ensure that every aspect of their business is running smoothly. We take the time to study and understand each of our clients’ particular businesses in order to provide them with the most creative and cost-effective services, narrowly tailored to their specific needs.
Whether it’s negotiating vendor contracts, drafting employee/independent contractor agreements, or navigating our clients through business transactions, we address a comprehensive range of legal issues to help ensure your businesses can thrive.
BUYING & SELLING BUSINESSES
The purchase/sale of a business can be a complicated process with many legal and practical considerations. Without proper legal representation, potential deals may collapse, litigation may ensue, and the parties may expose themselves to costly and unnecessary liability.
Our goal is to help make the purchase/sale of a business run as smoothly as possible, to inform our clients of practical as well as legal considerations, and to eliminate the risk of future litigation between the parties.
We help buyers and sellers through every stage of these transactions and can offer alternatives to hourly fees to better serve our clients.
partner agreements
Every business that has more than one owner should have an agreement between them. Such an agreement will go a long way to protecting both the business assets and the owners’ piece of mind.
A proper agreement between the owners will save time and money by providing key dispute resolution mechanisms and management conduct guidelines. Further, it will protect the ownership interest and control of the company (for example, the agreement will usually provide restrictions on transfers of ownership, which prevents an ownership interest from ever being transferred to an undesirable third-party). Finally, such an agreement should provide a good business succession plan ensuring smooth continuation and success of the business in the face of new ownership or key management.
There are a number of advantages to having an agreement between the owners of a company. We work closely with our clients to help develop an agreement that complements their businesses and their vision for their company’s future.
Business Transactions
This Firm handles business transactions of all shapes and sizes, including negotiating and drafting business contracts, commercial purchase and sale agreements, lease agreements, employee handbooks, sub-contractor agreements, stock purchase agreements, phantom stock agreements, non-disclosure agreements, non-compete agreements, confidentiality agreements and trade secret agreements.
Whatever the subject matter, we help our clients negotiate favorable terms and identify areas of risk in their legal transactions to ensure that there are no loose ends that will derail the deal or come back to haunt them in the future.