Corporate and Business Transactions
Cuyler Burk provides a full range of legal services for its business clients, often incorporating our experience in other practice areas to achieve creative business solutions.
Clients seeking to start a new business or acquire an ongoing concern rely on us to become immediately involved in the initial planning process to facilitate an approach that suits their circumstances. We take into account considerations such as degree of risk associated with pre-existing liabilities, the transferability of business licenses and permits, the ownership and transferability of intellectual property rights, the impact of the proposed transaction to existing financing agreements and the ability to assume existing contractual relationships.
Strong believers in the maxim that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, we encourage closely held entities to document at the outset the expectations and commitments of the partners or shareholders. Our attorneys advise clients to pay more than casual attention to the preparation of a business venture, stressing the importance of shareholder or partnership agreements delineating the parties' relationship. This well advised attention at the beginning of a long-term relationship often avoids later disputes, or at least may create a mechanism that is an economical and efficient alternative to expensive litigation to resolve those disputes.
For clients already active in business, our attorneys routinely provide a variety of legal services designed to provide structure to ongoing business transactions and to limit the risk of future disputes. Our services include the negotiation and preparation of restrictive covenants, distribution agreements, real property leases, equipment leases, loan agreements, employment and consulting contracts, licensing agreements, joint venture agreements, option and incentive plans, real estate purchase and sale agreements and asset acquisition agreements. Our attorneys also regularly counsel business managers, corporate officers and directors on legal issues, often providing guidance in complying with the myriad federal, state and local regulatory, taxation and reporting requirements.
Cuyler Burk attorneys draw upon their diverse experience representing banks and other lending institutions, as well as borrowers, in the structuring, negotiation, drafting and closing of financial transactions such as commercial loans, term and revolving credit loans, letters of credit, equipment financing loans and asset-based loans. We also assist lending institutions and borrowers in the resolution of problem loans, collection and foreclosure matters.
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