What we do
From start-up to expansion, we use our expertise to advise on all aspects of company formation, capital raising and daily company operations to business growth strategies. We assist companies, boards, bondholders and shareholders on a wide range of legal issues, commercial and corporate matters.
Most importantly, we help our clients with drafting, negotiation and disputes in the following areas:
- Business Formation – Corporation, Limited Liability Company (LLC) and Limited and General Partnership (LP or GP)
- Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, Operating Agreements, Limited and General Partnership Agreements, Joint Venture Agreements
- Shareholder Agreements
- Director Liabilities and Responsibilities
- Board of Directors, General Meeting and other Governing Bodies and Management
- Shareholder Rights
- Seed and Series A Startup Financing
- Equity and Bond Purchase Agreements
- Equity and Bond Transactions
- Share Transfer Instruments
- Change of Ownership Dissolution and Liquidation
- Mergers and Acquisitions
Business Formation
If you are looking to grow your line of businesses, expand an existing business or simply start up a business, we help you determine the appropriate legal structure, form the business entity and prepare the required legal documents. The legal structure you choose for your business impacts everything from day-to-day operations, taxes, and personal liability. We assist business owners with forming a Corporation, Limited Liability Company (LLC), Limited Partnership (LP), General Partnerships (GP) or Joint Ventures.
Shareholder Agreements
To protect a shareholder’s investment in a company and establish a fair relationship between the shareholders at the outset, we execute shareholder agreements unique to the company it serves. We, as a law firm, help identify and create specific, important and practical rules related to the shareholders’ relationship with each other, including shareholder rights and obligations, control provisions for issue, transfer or sale of shares, minority shareholder protections, dispute resolution procedures, company management and finance.
Directors' Liabilities and Responsibilities
Board of Directors, General Meeting and other Governing Bodies and Management We advise members of the Board of Directors, the Board as a whole, Senior Executives and other Governing Bodies and Management on a full range of corporate governance issues that confront private companies and their leadership, including board structure and composition, duties of independent directors and committees, board committee structure and composition, director and senior executive succession plan, and company risk identification and management. In addition, we provide advice and support related to Directors’ liabilities and responsibilities and conflict of interest and related party transactions.
Shareholder rights
If you invest money in a company structured as a corporation, you are a shareholder and in effect the owner of the company. As a shareholder you have important basic rights you need to consider. We assist and advise on shareholder rights to distribution of profits, voting rights, ownership rights in the company, rights to transfer of ownership, rights to sue for wrongful acts and shareholder derivative lawsuits.
Seed and Series A Startup Financing
We advise early-stage companies in their capital-raising efforts and structuring seed and Series A financing rounds. We use our experience and partnership with independent financial advisers to provide the best assistance in structuring seed and series A financings on optimal terms for companies and investors. For startup companies, we counsel on convertible notes, debt and equity financings, and negotiate favorable term sheets.
Change of Ownership
If you are buying or selling a business, adding or dissociating a partner, buying out a partner or changing from one type of business structure to another, we assist you with all the legal tasks associated with effecting the necessary change of business ownership.