If you’ve never started a business, or if you’ve created multiple businesses before but you want to make sure you do it right this time, it’s always wise to contact a business planning attorney to make sure everything is organized properly. There are many important elements to starting a business, especially if you’re partnering with another person or group of people. In that case, in addition to the usual complications of the startup, you also have to be concerned with legal issues surrounding ownership, planning, and the decision-making issues amongst yourself and the other owners. We can help you.
Once we understand the goals and fears you have about your business, we will use a variety of business planning tools to address those issues. We help clients with a variety of business planning needs, including:
Startup businesses: Often, small startup business owners are so focused on getting their business off the ground that they might inadvertently skip over some of the necessary legal points.
Setting up entities, including the formation and filing: Setting up the right kind of business entity can be the difference between protecting your personal assets and having all of your assets up for grabs if a lawsuit is filed against you. Depending on the type of business you’re starting and the protection you need, your business planning attorney can help you determine the best way to form the company.
Partnership and shareholder agreements: An experienced business planning attorney will be able to help you execute partnership and shareholder agreements in a legally binding way. The last thing you want is to draw up your own contracts and agreements only to find out years down the road that you made a fatal error and the contracts are not valid.
Registering trademarks: Many businesses will rely heavily upon registering trademarks. While it can be tempting to try to do this yourself to save some money, there are many intricacies involved in searching for and registering trademarks. If you make a mistake, it could end up costing you quite a large sum of money, and you could also waste valuable time.
Buying and selling the business: Anytime a business owner is interested in buying or selling a business, it’s wise to contact a business planning attorney. They can help you review contracts and make sure you’re communicating everything you want.
We also help clients draft and review contracts between business owners and employees, vendors, customers, and landlords, and tenants.