BUSINESS LAW

Forman Law Group 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.
  

“It is nice to find lawyers who present me with both well informed legal opinions and practical advice.” 

K. Denise Hauter, a shareholder in the Tiles & Christianson Interior Design Group of Los Angeles

“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.” 

Lynn Shatos, President of Corporate Travel of Wyoming

Our Services include
But are not limited to;

• Negotiating, drafting and implementing.....
  •     Partnership, shareholder and member operating                  agreements;
  •     Buy-sell agreements covering the death, disability,             retirement, resignation or termination of a                           shareholder, partner or member or any litigation                   involving such a person;  
  •     Phantom Stock/Incentive Stock Plans;
  •     Confidentiality agreements and vender/visitor                     agreements;
    
  •     Non-competition agreements;
  •     Proprietary rights agreements;
  •     Software and other licensing agreements;
  •     Employee invention and assignment agreements;
  •      Joint venture agreements;
  •     Business contracts;
  •     Business leases
  •     Purchase and sale agreements
  •     Collateral assignment and split dollar agreements for         allowing the business to pay life insurance premiums at     a reduced cost to the policy owner; 

• Structuring a business to attract investment; 

• Drafting sexual harassment policies designed to insulate employers from sexual harassment judgments Assuring regulatory compliance and registration;

• 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);

• Advising clients on independent contractor verses employee issues;

• Obtaining real estate tax abatements;
• Drafting business opinion letters for borrowing, purchasing or soliciting investment;
• Resolving or litigating employment disputes; as well as shareholder, partner or member disputes;
• Collecting accounts receivable;  
• 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 Law Group offers to its business clients.