The business law and transaction attorneys help businesses form, operate, grow, and transition with clarity and control. Our team advises on day-to-day contracts, corporate governance, finance and capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation, and ownership transitions across the full business lifecycle.
Our attorneys represent startups, family owned and closely held companies, nonprofits, and middle market enterprises in the United States and abroad, including U.S. entities with operations overseas and foreign entities doing business in the U.S.
- Commercial contracts and vendor, customer, and strategic partnership agreements.
- Corporate governance, board counseling, and compliance frameworks.
- Financing and capital structure, including bank and private debt, equity, and venture capital.
- Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures, from LOI through post closing integration.
- Outside general counsel for ongoing legal needs that span multiple disciplines.
The team works across practice areas to resolve issues that do not fit neatly into a single category of law, and scales to matters of any size or complexity.
Business Formation
Selecting the correct structure depends on ownership goals, liability tolerance, tax treatment, and financing strategy. Our team explains tradeoffs in plain language and recommends a path that supports near term operations and future growth. From startup through exit, our attorneys provide practical counsel at each stage: founding and capitalization, commercial scaling, strategic transactions, and succession planning for founders and family business.
Attorneys guide founders through entity selection, capitalization, and governance so the company starts on a solid footing and remains adaptable as it grows. We facilitate capitalization through owner equity, bank and private debt, and venture investments, and identify formation and governance issues early to reduce risk and protect long-term goals. Entities include:
- Sole proprietorships
- General and limited partnerships
- Limited liability companies (LLCs)
- Corporations
- Nonprofits and social enterprises
We draft and tailor articles of incorporation, bylaws, operating agreements, and stockholder agreements to align voting rights, authority, and profit distributions among owners. We also address exit planning and transfer restrictions, coordinated with asset protection and estate planning.
