The practice
Corporate legal services
We do corporate work and only corporate work: the entity, the agreements it signs, the rules its owners follow, the transaction that sells it, and the obligations it carries along the way.
These are five names for one continuous problem
A company is a set of promises. Some are made to the state, some to the people who own it, and some to everyone it does business with. Corporate law is the work of writing those promises down accurately and keeping them current as the company changes.
The five areas below are stages of that, not separate specialisms. Formation decides who owns the company and on what terms. Governance keeps those terms working as the ownership changes. Contracts govern every promise made outward, to customers, vendors, and staff. Compliance covers the promises made to regulators, which nobody negotiates but everyone owes. And a sale is where all four get examined at once by someone with an incentive to find the gaps.
That last point is worth sitting with, because it explains why the work compounds. Almost every problem a buyer finds during diligence originated years earlier as a formation shortcut, an undocumented equity promise, a contract signed unread, or a filing nobody calendared. None of them were urgent at the time. All of them become urgent simultaneously, at the exact moment they are most expensive to fix and you have the least leverage to negotiate about them.
So while you can engage us for a single matter — and many clients do — the reason to look at more than one is that they are the same problem observed at different stages.
- Article I
Business Formation
Choosing and standing up the right structure — LLC, partnership, or corporation — so the entity holds up when it matters.
- Entity selection analysis
- Formation filings
- Operating or shareholder agreement
- Article II
Contracts
Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating the agreements you sign with vendors, clients, and partners.
- Contract drafting
- Review and redlining
- Negotiation
- Article III
Corporate Governance
Bylaws, operating agreements, and the rules that decide who controls the company and how disputes resolve.
- Bylaws and operating agreements
- Owner and shareholder agreements
- Buy-sell provisions
- Article IV
Mergers & Sales
Guiding the legal steps when you buy, sell, or combine companies — from letter of intent through closing.
- Deal structure
- Letters of intent
- Due diligence
- Article V
Compliance
Making sure the business meets its obligations under local, state, and federal law — before someone else checks.
- Compliance assessment
- Licensing and registrations
- Employment practice
Next step
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