Areas of Practice

Business Practice

We represent privately-owned businesses, individual entrepreneurs, professionals, investors, and executives as well as small public companies. Our approach is very focused and goal-oriented, always seeking solutions that are expeditious and cost-effective. We act as general counsel, working closely with management on traditional corporate and contract matters, as well as on regulatory compliance issues and special projects.

We have extensive experience counseling, analyzing, planning strategies, negotiating, structuring, preparing documents, and reviewing matters in the following areas:

General Business

• Counseling day to day activities and operations
• Buying and selling businesses
• Buying and selling assets
• Financing and borrowing issues
• Commercial transactions
• General contracts
• Employment agreements (including restrictive covenants and non-compete agreements)
• Representation of professionals and professional practices (including physicians, accountants, dentists and architects)
• Due diligence investigations and compliance
• Asset protection planning
• Shareholder (partner, member) disputes
• Business work-outs, restructuring and financial insolvency
• Business litigation

Corporations, Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies

• Formation, amendments, by-laws, partnership agreements, operating agreements
• Corporate governance (shareholders and directors meetings)
• Reorganizations, mergers, dissolutions, liquidations
• Buy-sell agreements (shareholder agreements)
• Shareholder/partner/member dispute resolution
• Tax considerations

Real Estate

• Sales and purchases
• Counseling day to day operations of owners, landlords and tenants
• Development of industrial and commercial real estate sites
• Commercial landlord and tenant issues
• Lease--negotiating and preparing as well as dealing with lease issues
• Environmental risks and liabilities
• Financing
• Mortgages and other financing agreements
• Broker agreements
• Title problems, issues and solutions
• Conveyancing and title closing
• Land use