Our business counseling and transactional practice includes representation of start-up, middle market, and later stage companies across a range of industries, including the manufacturing, sports & entertainment, technology, and digital media sectors. We strive to understand our clients’ business needs, goals and objectives in an effort to better collaborate and provide optimal advice with respect to their ongoing operational matters.
We will walk you through all the important considerations of business start-up, including choice of entity, ownership agreements, employee concerns, management structure and exit strategies. We provide legal advice, document drafting and representation of businesses, corporations, partnerships, incorporators, shareholders, directors, employees, partners, officers, buyers, sellers, lenders and borrowers in California regarding the following business and corporate legal matters:
We act as corporate counsel to a broad spectrum of established and successful companies, as well as startups. By utilizing our legal guidance, your business can gain a critical competitive advantage. We offer our clients unparalleled transactional expertise from business formation, employee governance, and negotiation and preparation of business contracts, to business financing, purchase and sales, and corporate compliance.
In all business ventures, your brand is your identity, reputation, and your most valuable asset. A brand encompasses the knowledge, technology, artistic content, look and feel, and the public and consumer perception of your business and creative pursuits.
A successful brand development strategy focuses on selecting, developing and protecting a business’s innovative and valuable intellectual property assets such as: product and package design; advertising content; the look and feel of a physical or online retail location, the sound, smell, or colors associated with promotional campaigns; the content created for use on a website or social media platform.
Because a brand is the cornerstone of your business identity, it needs to be developed and protected with the best strategies and resources available. We handling every aspect of brand development and protection, from working with you as you set up your business entity and select a name or logo for your company or product line to enforcing your intellectual property rights whenever necessary using those business and legal strategies that are most effective.
We have the skill, knowledge and experience to advise on the issues faced by companies that disseminate content on new media platforms, and those who wish to protect their content from unauthorized dissemination. We have represented and counseled websites, online video services, app developers, social networking sites and other digital media companies in negotiating and drafting licensing agreements and other areas including copyright, privacy and terms of use. We advise digital technology start-ups and content developers on protecting, leveraging and monetizing the value of what they create.
We are also acutely aware of the challenges faced by existing companies seeking to transform to a digital presence and by new companies that must include the latest digital technology in their business models to meet the expectations of clients and customers seeking greater access to information and communication, as well as employees, partners and suppliers seeking increased interaction and engagement.
We can assist and advise clients on a wide array of issues, including:
We are available to draft, review, and negotiate commercial, industrial and retail leases, and assist either landlords or tenants with issues relating to evictions, past-due rent collections, non-monetary and monetary lease defaults, exclusive use and other restrictive covenants, unlawful detainer, security and insurance issues, Common Area Maintenance (CAM) issues, failure to make repairs, and other commercial landlord-tenant disputes.
Our real estate practice spans a broad array of transactions undertaken on behalf of owners, developers, lenders, borrowers, investors, landlords, tenants, and other users. Such transactions include:
We can help you with all aspects of state and federal employment laws. Often considered to be among the most complex of challenges a company faces, we can advise your business on a variety of employment related issues and regulations, including sexual harassment, discrimination, wage and hour disputes, and employee policies and procedures. In offering such counsel, our firm ensures that you remain compliant with applicable federal laws and regulations, including the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).