Business Law Services
Our attorneys have helped many small to mid-sized businesses, startups, entrepreneurs, and executives.
We are experienced: every business and corporate lawyer in our law firm has at least 15 years’ experience as a practicing attorney.
Our attorneys represent entrepreneurs, founders, executives, and owners – and the companies they lead – as well as individuals dealing with such companies. We do not represent VCs.
Our three major practice areas consist of startup business law, small business law, and commercial litigation.
Startup Business Lawyers
Our attorneys have in-depth experience in dealing with startup business issues at formation – founder arrangements, company setup timing issues, equity incentives, restricted stock grants, and securities law compliance, among others (including the Delaware question, capitalization questions, and 83(b) election issues) – and with the intellectual property or IP issues that are often critical to a typical startup business in the technology field. We handle not only the corporate and IP but also the business tax aspects of all such issues, including the corporate and strategic advice that will guide your startup through the legal complexities of an early-stage business. Our lawyers likewise have taken many early-stage startups through preferred stock and other funding rounds with bridge investors, strategic investors, angel investors and VCs and have carried many of them right through to acquisition.
Our intellectual property expertise is strong and embraces the full range of arrangements of IP protection, IP licensing, and IP development, including trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters, as well as distribution, OEM, VAR, dealer, E-commerce and Internet issues, and strategic alliances.
Many lawyers today claim to be specialists in startup business law. Our lawyers have the lengthy track record and the client base to prove it.
Small Business Lawyers
Our roots lie and remain with small business owners even as we have come to specialize in early-stage startup business law.
Our small business legal services include: forming business entities, such as a corporation or LLC; selling or merging business entities, such as an asset or stock sale; handling corporate work of all kinds; drafting, reviewing, and advising on contracts of all kinds, including commercial leases and standard terms; employment and contractor issues and counseling; trademark and other intellectual property matters; Internet law; and commercial deals of all kinds.
In small business matters, we do everything from spot projects to acting as outside general legal counsel for our clients. We handle the full range of small business legal matters, however large or small.
Commercial Litigation Lawyers
Our commercial litigation practice is broad and varied and includes all areas of law in which we represent startup and small business clients.
In the lawsuit area, our attorneys handle all forms of business, corporate, and partnership litigation, all forms of contract disputes, most forms of employment litigation (mostly from the employer side), business fraud, unfair competition, trade libel, UCC lawsuits trademark and copyright infringement and intellectual property litigation generally, trade secret disputes of every type, IP licensing disputes, injunctions, writs of attachment, lease and other commercial property disputes, partner and shareholder fights, corporate, partnership and LLC dissolution lawsuits, mediation, arbitration, California commercial litigation generally, whether in state or federal.
In disputes and lawsuits, our litigation philosophy is one of fighting hard while aiming for practical results for our business clients.
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