Business Services

Growth-Stage Advice

Growth-Stage Advice

The right business entity structure allocates ownership interests, risk, and management responsibility; facilitates major changes like investment rounds, ownership transitions, and succession planning; and provides tax and other regulatory advantages. Our Business Services Group works closely with owners to evaluate their goals and concerns, and provides seasoned advice for creating the right entity structure, registering it in the jurisdictions where it will do business, and applying for eligible business certifications, such as for a women or diverse-owned business.

Real estate and natural resource development projects require special planning and structuring, sometimes to access and integrate governmental and quasi-governmental funding and tax incentives. We work with our clients to identify, negotiate, and close funding with angels, private equity, VC funds, strategic investors, and a wide range of debt financing sources.

We also advise equity and debt investment groups on organizing and obtaining investment funding, complying with securities and investment-advisor laws, and making portfolio company investments. 

Technology-focused high-growth businesses may require specialized organization and capitalization structures in order to provide a profitable exit for investors and key personnel. Our attorneys understand their distinct personnel issues, stakeholder expectations, product markets, and the risks and problems associated with rapid growth, and provide the efficient, dynamic legal representation these businesses need in order to thrive. 

Healthcare practices have specific regulatory and ethical needs that affect entity structure, business strategy, and staffing arrangements. Our attorneys understand their professional licensing laws, ethical considerations, and commercial environment, and provide appropriate legal guidance for their deal structures. 

Businesses across all market segments frequently grow through mergers, joint ventures, and asset purchases. Our attorneys have the experience, strategies, and business judgment to efficiently structure and close advantageous deals.

Contact Julie I. Kline to structure the right entity for your business goals.

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