Corporate Law
Marcus & Shapira LLP's corporate law department counsels clients on all aspects of business transactions, including extraordinary transactions in the life of a business.
Our clients represent a wide range of business entities, from sole proprietors, general and limited partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, and joint ventures to multi-million-dollar public and private companies operating in the areas of manufacturing, banking, supermarket and general retail merchandising, wholesale distribution, medical and pharmaceutical sales and service, and real estate and natural resource operations and development, to name a few.
Our business department works closely with lawyers specializing in employment law, pension planning, workers compensation law, and commercial litigation to provide our clients with a full range of services to address all facets of their business operations.
We focus our efforts on providing practical, thorough, and cost-efficient legal advice and in finding creative and tax advantageous ways to achieve our clients' business goals.
The firm's areas of expertise include:
- Forming, structuring, and counseling of new entities;
- Reorganizing and restructuring existing entities;
- Financing by commercial banks and private lenders for new ventures, construction, acquisitions, stock buy-backs, and business expansions;
- Trademark law;
- Mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions of businesses;
- Like-kind exchanges and special-allocation partnership and LLC operating agreements;
- Executive employment contracts;
- Federal, state and local income and transfer tax planning and controversies;
- Counseling of directors and officers on issues of corporate governance, antitrust, liability, and insurance;
- Franchising;
- Bankruptcy issues; and
- Securities issues, including stock offers and options, tender offers, federal and state securities filings, and private placements of debt and equity securities.