Our attorneys have experience in a broad range of transactional practice areas, including the following:
Corporate Law
- Business formation
- Corporate governance
- Shareholder agreements and operating agreements
- Non-profit organizations
- Minority ownership issues
- Mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, and divestitures
Business Operations
- Purchases, sales, and leases of goods, property, and equipment
- Supplier and customer agreements
- Service and consulting agreements
- Uniform Commercial Code matters
- Liens and secured transactions
- Employment, non-competition, and severance agreements
- Independent contractor matters
- Deferred compensation plans (qualified and non-qualified)
- Development and licensing agreements
- Licensing and regulatory matters
Real Estate
- Sales, purchases, and leases of residential, commercial, and industrial property
- Economic incentives and tax abatement
- Construction agreements and construction lien matters
- Co-ownership agreements and family cottage agreements
- Property tax matters
- Zoning and land use matters
- Easements and restrictive covenants
Estate and Succession Planning
- Wills
- Powers of attorney for finances and health care
- Revocable trusts (taxable and non-taxable estates)
- Irrevocable trusts (life insurance, tax planning trusts, special needs trusts)
- Post-death trust administration and probate
- Business succession planning
- Farm succession planning
- Management and key employee transition planning
- Estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning
- Charitable gift planning
- Private foundations and endowments