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Corporate and Business Transactions

Owners and executives of successful businesses understand the importance of protecting their bottom line from legal uncertainties. For more than 20 years, Spotts Fain attorneys have been the legal professionals that corporate entities turn to for individualized services and ongoing legal counsel.

Our corporate and business transactions law group includes:

 
  • John W. Anderson
  • John Carroll
  • Brian R. Marron
  • J. Thomas O'Brien, Jr.
  • Stephen G. Reardon
  • Michael J. Rothermel
  • Meade A. Spotts
  • R. Lee Stephens, Jr.
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  • Robert J. Allen
  • Brian Thomas Chase
  • Deborah N. Fourness
  • Peter A. Gambardella
  • Andrew W. Oxenreiter
  • Christina M. Revels
  • Matt Yanovitch
  • Contact us to learn more about our experience and how we can help you resolve your commercial transaction efficiently.

    We provide comprehensive corporate and business services with special emphasis on the following areas:

    • Business entity formation and organization
    • Shareholder agreements
    • Business review, reorganization and analysis
    • Stock buyouts, asset purchases
    • SBA Loans
    • HUD 221(d)(4) Loans
    • Employment agreements and employment related issues
    • Consulting agreements
    • Mergers and acquisitions,
    • real estate - property purchase, sale and transfers
    • General and specific business consultations
    • Insurance related issues
    • Operating agreements for LLC's

    We Handle Every Type of Business Entity Formation and Restructuring

    We provide guidance on the choice of a business entity (including an analysis of "S" corporations, "C" corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies), assist in the analysis of buyouts or redemptions of other business owners and provide tax planning advice associated with the start-up, purchase or sale of ongoing businesses.

    Typically, this includes the implementation of buy-sell agreements, operating agreements, employment agreements, consulting agreements, asset sale agreements and split-dollar arrangements. Our firm's business section also has extensive experience in the negotiation of commercial contracts, labor issues, securities issues, employee benefits and tax planning.

    Our attorneys provide business consultation on an as- needed basis, to include consulting on such issues as operational concerns, reorganization and restructuring. We also provide estate planning advice for the transfer of closely held business entities.

    Contact us to discuss your specific corporate transaction and commercial contract law needs.

    August 20, 2010 - Michael Yager, a Legal Assistant in our Litigation Section, will speak at a NALA LIVE! presentation on electronic discovery, "E-Discovery - Slow Down the Train" 

    January 27, 2010 - We are proud to announce that Spotts Fain Managing Director, Hugh M. Fain, III has been elected Chair of the Board of Governors of the Virginia Bar Association

    December, 2009 - Spotts Fain congratulates our shareholders named in the 2009 Legal Elite list published by Virginia Business magazine.  They are Meade Spotts, Legislative/Regulatory; Hugh Fain, Civil Litigation; Betsy Davis, Labor and Employment; and Dana McDaniel, Intellectual Property. 

    December 1, 2009 - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination - article by Betsy Davis

    October 29, 2009 - Betsy Davis spoke on Recent Changes in Employment Law at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys

    October 27, 2009 - Spotts Fain presented, Commercial Landlords and Tenants: Planning for and Dealing with Bankruptcy, presenters were Jen West and John Anderson

    October 26, 2009 - Comments on President Obama's proposal to increase lending limits on SBA loans, by Tom O'Brien

    October 21, 2009 - GINA is Coming - Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act - article by Betsy Davis

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