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BUSINESS SERVICES
The firm's Business Services Group includes attorneys from several practice groups to ensure all business-related needs are addressed and handled with three primary goals: reduce client legal costs, prevent future legal problems and deliver quality representation. Our clients expect and receive the highest quality legal representation, and our attorneys in the Business Services Group have the requisite experience to address virtually all issues faced by businesses in the legal environment.
The attorneys in the firm's Business Services Group are experienced and prepared to address all small, medium and large-size business needs:
- Formation and Governance Issues: We routinely form corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies and advise on related governance issues.
- Tax Issues: We advise on tax-related issues faced by businesses, such as sales and use tax, payroll and withholding issues, tax-free exchanges and employee benefits.
- Employment Issues: We prepare and negotiate employment contracts, employee policies and procedures, discrimination complaints, wrongful termination litigation, and provide preventative advice to reduce exposure.
- Business Sales, Mergers and Acquisitions: We represent parties in connection with the sale and purchase of businesses, related due diligence and mergers and acquisitions, including necessary securities filings.
- Securities: We prepare private placement offerings, Regulation D filings and other securities filings required under federal and state securities laws.
- Intellectual Property Rights: We recognize and address intellectual property issues, and through our Commercial Litigation Department, handle trademark infringement and copyright litigation.
- Franchises and Licensing Agreements: We prepare form franchise agreements and uniform franchise offering circulars, as well as handle all state and federal regulatory compliance issues. We also prepare and negotiate licensing agreements for a wide variety of businesses.
- Professional Services: We prepare and negotiate agreements for professional services.
- Financing: We work with our clients to obtain and negotiate financing, such as factoring arrangements, equipment leases, municipal financing, and issuance of debt and equity securities.
- Contracts: We draft and negotiate contracts for all types of business transactions, including purchase and sale contracts, professional services contracts, management contracts and the like.
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