Helping You Build Your Business on a Solid Foundation
Launching a new venture can be a complicated process – from selecting an optimal business model and securing working capital to protecting valuable ideas from your competitors. Our attorneys serve as trusted advisors who can help you make well-informed decisions, remove obstacles and build your business on a solid foundation. Our Startups & Entrepreneurs team works across a wide range of industries with a variety of early stage ventures, including family and closely held businesses.
Our Experience
- Antitrust issues
- Articles of incorporation (C corporations, S corporations)
- Asset protection planning
- Assignment of invention
- Business partnerships and planning
- Commercial leases
- Compensation agreements
- Contracts (developing, reviewing, negotiating)
- Copyright
- Debt financing
- Due diligence
- Employee benefits and employment agreements
- Franchising
- Intellectual Property
- Investment groups, including “white knight” and “angel” investors
- Leveraged buyouts and private equity investments
- Licensing agreements and negotiations
- Limited liability companies (LLC)
- Limited liability partnerships (LLP)
- Mergers
- Noncompetition and nondisclosure agreements
- Real estate matters
- Shareholder agreements
- Software licensing
- Sole proprietorships
- Strategic investments and joint ventures
- Succession planning
- Tax planning, tax audits and tax compliance
- Trade dress
- Trade secrets
- Trademarks and service marks
- Work for hire agreements
