We have experience advising and advocating for small businesses and their owners. Our small business practice focuses on all forms of business ownership in a broad spectrum of markets and industries, including sole proprietors, partnerships, joint ventures, limited liability companies and corporations. Small businesses of all types and sizes, from new companies to thriving enterprises, across many trades can depend on us to help them recognize and seize opportunities, avoid stifling mistakes, operate smoothly and generate increased revenues.
Our experience and insight covers a full range of disciplines that are critical to the success of any small business, including, but not limited to:
We provide solutions to small businesses through responsive and focused general counsel advisement and by proactively assisting small business clients to prevent issues before they develop. We combine legal expertise, multi-disciplinary skill sets and practical business sense to produce results on a budget. We take the time necessary to understand each of our client’s businesses and business needs as well as legal issues. Our commitment to seeing our clients grow is as strong as our commitment to our own personal growth.
We assist corporate counsel to achieve their corporate goals, resolve conflicts, and serve as the risk mitigation fireman. Sometimes our engagements extend to counseling from a role of the “moral compass” of the legal and business community.
We bring expertise, real world business experience and an appreciation of cost and value to the legal services we provide for our corporate clients. Our practice is intended to bridge the gap between outside and inside counsel by making our firm a mere extension of corporate legal departments. We are also well versed in establishing alternative billing arrangements which align our interests as a law firm with those of our corporate clients.
Our corporate counsel services practice areas include corporate transactions, commercial finance, intellectual property law, employment law, franchise law, commercial real estate, asset protection, creditors rights, and insolvency.
In addition to our practice area knowledge, there are many ways that our firm can add value to your in-house legal department, including:
In today’s intensely competitive environment, manufacturers and distributors face many challenges: responding to oversees competition, implementing technological advancements in production, protecting their designs, trademark, inventions and innovations from piracy, and building and maintaining a skilled workforce. With such demands, manufacturers and distributors need prompt and efficient attention to the legal matters related to their businesses from trusted and knowledgeable advisers.
We understand the issues affecting manufacturers, enabling us to assist in matters involving corporate, labor, intellectual property and environmental concerns. We also represent transportation and logistics companies in corporate restructuring, drafting of owner-operator agreements, non-compete actions, and general business matters.
We serve the manufacturing/distribution sector by:
Our focus is on identifying potential issues and addressing them before they mature to become serious business problems. We seek to know your business inside and out so that we can help you to create business systems that minimize conflict and help you to efficiently get your products to market. It is an approach to help our clients minimize risks and to effectively take advantage of opportunities to grow and protect their businesses.
We represent building owners, investors, property managers, and tenants in connection with the negotiation and documentation of office, industrial and retail leases (including letters of intent, construction work letters and related development agreements), lease amendments, sublease and assignment agreements, lease restructurings and workouts, telecommunication agreements, guarantees, letters of credit, brokerage and property management agreements and other property related documents.
We know franchise laws and how to utilize those laws to assist our clients in creating a method to best distribute their products or services and achieve their business goals. We provide franchisors and franchisees with legal counsel to address the full spectrum of franchise-related issues, including:
Whether you are a franchisor seeking to do business in California or nationwide, or an individual seeking a franchise business opportunity, we will handle your legal matter with a commitment to detail and the goal of providing the best environment for business success.