Business Planning and Transactions

We help our clients make and implement sound business decisions. Particularly in respect to business clients who do not have in-house legal staff, we provide a substantial resource of legal experience and judgment into which clients can tap as needed. Our clients include sole proprietors and small entrepreneurs, closely-held entities, large privately-held companies, and substantial public companies. Many of our clients consider us to be among their most trusted advisors.

We handle the everyday, and not-so-everyday, business planning and transactional issues our clients face, such as those listed below.

• We negotiate and draft our clients’ contracts with their customers, their consultants, their suppliers, their lenders, their partners, and so on.
• We help our clients analyze and implement mergers, acquisitions, and similar transactions;
• We work with our clients to structure their day-to-day business activities so that they can minimize liabilities and complications, and so that they can ultimately collect what is owed to them;
• We help our clients protect, license, and otherwise capitalize on their copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property;
• We help our clients handle succession planning and related issues so that they can reap the long term benefits of their enterprises;
• We guide our clients through the legal minefields involved in hiring, firing, and managing their employees, and we help them design creative employment relationships that attract and hold top people;
• We help our clients start and operate their business ventures in the right way, minimizing the prospect for future problems and maximizing tax advantages;
• We help our clients satisfy the myriad of licensing and regulatory requirements in the multiple jurisdictions in which they conduct business;
• We help our clients analyze and, where necessary, revise their business methods and structures in light of changing circumstances.

Click on the problems solved button to review examples of some of our planning and transactional work.