Privately Held Companies

Our business lawyers provide strategic legal advice to privately held companies, including family-owned businesses. We know the industries and educate ourselves about the business of each client, so we can help the client achieve its business and financial objectives. Despite the complexities of applicable laws, we take a practical, straightforward approach to helping each client solve its legal problems.

Our privately held company clients are of all sizes and cover virtually every industry segment. When representing these clients, we function as an outside business partner and a strategic business advisor. In the process, we build strong, enduring relationships with clients.

We provide a full range of business legal services, serving as a one-stop legal resource in handling the day-to-day legal needs of our privately held company clients, including the following:

• Entity selection and formation
• Corporate governance and entity maintenance
• Debt and equity financing
• Protection of intellectual property assets
• Tax planning and counsel
• Employment law advice
• Employee benefits and executive compensation
• Sales and purchases of businesses
• Review of contracts with suppliers and customers
• Domestic and international distribution and marketing
• Transfer of ownership, restructuring and recapitalization
• Succession planning and exit strategies