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.

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,
Commercial real estate - 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.