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 Business Law

Forman, Corcoran & Associates provides business clients with everything from basic counsel to highly sophisticated advice and strategies for every stage of business development from start up to spin-off, merger, succession or dissolution. As K. Denise Hauter, a shareholder in the Tiles & Christianson Interior Design Group of Los Angeles opined, “It is nice to find lawyers who present me with both well informed legal opinions and practical advice.” Lynn Shatos, President of Corporate Travel of Wyoming adds, “I always receive prompt answers to my questions and I am continually impressed with how responsive the firm is to my concerns as a business owner.”

 

Some of the firm’s business law services include the following:

 

  • Choosing the appropriate business form in which to operate from both a legal and a tax planning perspective (sole proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, corporation, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, professional association or professional corporation, professional limited liability company, Delaware holding company);
     
  • Negotiating, drafting and implementing partnership, shareholder and member operating agreements;
     
  • Negotiating, drafting and implementing buy-sell agreements covering the death, disability, retirement, resignation or termination of a shareholder, partner or member or any litigation involving such a person;
     
  • Negotiating, drafting and implementing Phantom Stock/Incentive Stock Plans;
     
  • Negotiating, drafting and implementing confidentiality agreements and vender/visitor agreements;
     
  • Negotiating, drafting and implementing non-competition agreements;
     
  • Negotiating, drafting and implementing proprietary rights agreements;
     
  • Negotiating, drafting and implementing software and other licensing agreements;
     
  • Negotiating, drafting and implementing employee invention and assignment agreements;
     
  • Negotiating, drafting and implementing joint venture agreements;
     
  • Drafting sexual harassment policies designed to insulate employers from sexual harassment judgments;
     
  • Drafting employment policies or manuals;
     
  • Advising clients on independent contractor verses employee issues;
     
  • Negotiating, drafting and reviewing business contracts;
     
  • Negotiating, drafting and reviewing business leases;
     
  • Negotiating, drafting and reviewing purchase and sale agreements;
     
  • Obtaining real estate tax abatements;
     
  • Assuring regulatory compliance and registration;
     
  • Structuring a business to attract investment;
     
  • Drafting business opinion letters for borrowing, purchasing or soliciting investment;
     
  • Resolving or litigating employment disputes;
     
  • Resolving or litigating shareholder or partner or member disputes;
     
  • Collecting accounts receivable;
     
  • Drafting and implementing collateral assignment and split dollar agreements for allowing the business to pay life insurance premiums at a reduced cost to the policy owner;
     
  • Negotiating and undertaking mergers, reorganizations (including F reorganizations) and acquisitions;
     
  • Business succession planning, including “key person” planning and estate planning for the owner or highly compensated employee;
     
  • Pension, profit sharing and other benefits planning;
     
  • Business dissolution;
     
  • Subsidiary and spin-off planning;
     
  • Minutes, resolutions, votes and other necessary corporate documents to keep companies in good standing and to keep owners free of personal liability.

     

    The above list is only a small sample of the kinds of legal services which Forman, Corcoran & Associates offers to its business clients.


    You should never expect less!

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