Business Practice

We provide a broad range of business law services to our clients. We help clients form their business, hire employees, raise money, protect their technology, sell their goods and services, form joint ventures, and when the time is right, sell their company. We work closely with emerging companies to help them become established while minimizing growing pains, and we assist established companies to continue to grow and succeed. We represent companies across a wide spectrum of industries, and have extensive experience representing companies in the technology and health care fields. Our attorneys regularly provide services in the following areas:

Start-Up and General Business Advice

• Legal, business and tax planning for start-up and growing businesses
• Choice of entity and domicile
• Business formation (corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies)
• Tax planning
• Buy-sell, voting and other agreements among founders

Equity Financings

• Financing and investment arrangements
• Venture capital transactions
• Angel investments
• Private placements
• Federal and state securities law compliance

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Sales and acquisitions of businesses (assets and stock)
• Mergers and consolidations
• Restructurings and recapitalizations
• Related tax planning

Joint Ventures

• Joint ventures
• Strategic alliances
• Corporate partnering arrangements

Incentive Compensation

• Executive compensation arrangements
• Restricted stock arrangements
• Qualified and non-qualified stock option plans
• Phantom stock
• Related tax planning

Personnel Arrangements

• Employment agreements
• Consulting agreements
• Noncompetition agreements
• Assignment of inventions agreements
• Employee handbooks
• Separation agreements

Debt Financings

• Bank loans
• Secured transactions from both the lender's and the borrower's perspective
• Equipment/receivable financing

Real Estate Transactions

• Commercial real estate financing
• Commercial real estate leasing

Other

• Petroleum Marketing Practices Act
• Antitrust
• Alternative Dispute Resolution services, including mediation and collaborative law

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