Practice Area

General Business Representation

We advise business owners day to day — from choosing the right entity to protecting trade secrets — so legal issues are handled before they become disputes.

We help start-ups and growing businesses reduce risk from creditors and lawsuits, choose the right form of organization, and keep their governance in order. Our attorneys also assist with business organization and operations, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, private placements and venture capital investments.

What we handle

  • Entity selection: corporations (including S and service corporations), LLCs, partnerships, LLPs, LPs, joint ventures and non-profits
  • Articles of organization and incorporation, bylaws
  • Shareholder, operating, partnership and voting trust agreements
  • Annual meeting documentation and required filings
  • Contract drafting and negotiation
  • Assignments, licenses and sublicenses
  • Confidentiality agreements and trade-secret protection
  • Commercial defamation, false advertising and competitive advertising issues

Attorneys

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