Business Law
In the "everyday business world" inhabited by business owners, corporate managers, and investors, the ability to deal effectively with legal issues is critical to success. Whether you are considering buying another company, starting your own, or targeting a transaction with someone else's business, we offer safer, more productive and beneficial ways for you to achieve your business and personal objectives.
Our Business Law attorneys perform a wide range of legal services for start up enterprises, corporations, limited liability companies and other business organizations. We act as general counsel for numerous entities, from sole proprietorships to large corporations. In addition, we are often called upon to assist local counsel with respect to complex business transactions and corporate litigation.
Our practice includes: business formation, the issuance of debt and equity securities, financing transactions, the negotiation and drafting of contracts, mergers and acquisitions, customer and vendor contracts, liquidations, and dissolutions.
We have significant experience counseling business enterprises in a wide range of negotiated and contested transactions including: mergers, asset purchases, spin-offs, exchange offers, tender offers and leveraged buy-outs. We also counsel clients on corporate governance and other stockholder relations issues, and can help when disputes arise among owners of small businesses.
We approach business transactions with an interdisciplinary team of attorneys handling the various corporate, securities, intellectual property, litigation, employee benefits, tax, and other issues inherent in mergers and acquisitions. In addition, we have close working relationships with leading law firms in the foreign jurisdictions where our clients conduct business. We try to come up with creative solutions to problems that lead to a "win-win" result for all involved parties. We have years of experience helping companies at all stages of growth reorganize and restructure their operations.
The firm's clients engage in a broad range of business activities, including technology, banking, real estate development and management, services providers, catering.
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What We Do For Our Clients
Our clients are business professionals involved in activities as diverse as contracting for the sale and purchase of supplies and services to business ownership, succession planning and corporate governance issues to considering the personal and business tax consequences of certain corporate actions to the overall interpretation and application of Ohio's business laws relevant to an existing or contemplated way of doing business. They seek our assistance and perspective in many areas to improve business practices, minimize taxes, increase personal asset protection, and reduce the risk of lawsuits, fines or other legal penalties. Some of the legal services we provide in this practice area include:
- Business Formation
- Deal Negotiation
- Contract Documentation
- Business Ownership Disputes
- Commercial Litigation
- Bad Debt Collection
- Sale/Purchase of Business
- Transfer of Ownership or Control
- Business Capital and Financing
- Joint Ventures
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