CORPORATE & BUSINESS

 

From corporate formation or LLC formation to merger, sale or dissolution, we provide all of the necessary advice, guidance and documents to help clients form and build successful businesses.

Entity Structure: We can analyze your business goals and guide you to the best corporate or other structure and ensure that all documents are filed and fees are paid for the best liability protection, profitability and tax advantages.

Mergers, Acquisition and Sale: With the assistance of expert tax professionals we can guide clients in bullet proof private merger, acquisition and sale documents with the primary goal of minimizing legal, tax and other financial risk.

Corporate Board Adviser: We can advise regarding fiduciary duties of corporate directors, new legal requirements under Sarbanes-Oxley and other legislation, corporate codes of ethics, corporate governance, pre-empting fraud or misconduct and averting crises through good succession planning.

Shareholder Issues: We provide expert guidance in the often daunting challenges of managing shareholder issues such as issuing and transferring shares, shareholder derivative suits, offer notices, buy/sell agreement compliance and the like.

Employee Issues: We are highly experienced in drafting policy and procedure manuals and managing employee lawsuits, EDD, DFEH and Labor Board claims so as to manage risk and reduce costs to employers.

Administrative Compliance: Let us help you manage compliance with licensing and other administrative agencies that govern your specific industry as well as tax and other government agencies that govern business in general.

Other Contracts and Transactions: We are adept in negotiating and drafting corporate documents to govern a wide variety of business transactions including:

• M&A Agreements
• Buy/Sell Agreements
• Commercial Leases
• Stock Sale Agreements
• Bulk Sale Agreements
• Loan and Security Agreements
• Employment Contracts
• Policy and Procedure Manuals
• Independent Contractor Agreements
• Dispute Settlement Agreements
• Non-Disclosure & Non-Circumvention Agreements
• Joint Venture and Partnership Agreements
• Earn-in/Earn-out Agreements
• Convertible Debt/Notes
• Business Plan
• Confidentiality and Trade Secrets Agreements