Business & Corporate Law

The firm provides comprehensive legal services to a diverse group of business clients from start-up businesses to publicly held corporations.  We adopt a practical, hands-on approach to solving problems, and we work closely with our clients in implementing solutions.

Business Start-Up

Entrepreneurs in the initial start-up and development stages of businesses regularly retain our services. For such clients, timely, cost-effective, and practical legal services are crucial to success.

Our services include the following:

  • Formation and planning for corporations including non-profit entities, partnerships, limited partnerships and limited liability companies
  • Business plan preparation
  • Staged financing and financing alternatives
  • Proprietary information protection
  • Tax planning
  • Contracts and incentive programs

General Corporate & Corporate Finance

Many of our clients are substantial publicly and privately held corporations.  We provide services to these clients on such matters as:

  • Public and private offerings
  • Venture capital financing
  • Employee benefit plans
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Securities regulation
  • Labor matters
  • Environmental matters
  • Litigation
  • Information Technology
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Strategic alliances and business planning
  • Commercial risk mitigation
  • Contract management
  • Commercial negotiations
  • Intellectual property


For some business clients, we service all legal matters from routine matters to major transactions. For others, we coordinate with in-house counsel to provide specialized services.