Practice Areas

 

Company formation and entity selection

  • Corporations
  • LLCs
  • Benefit Corporations and Flexible Purpose Corporations
  • B Corporations and other models for stakeholder accountability
  • Cooperatives
  • Nonprofits including social venture development
  • Hybrids

Financing and capital markets

  • Securities compliance
  • Private placements
  • Investment funds
  • Direct public offerings
  • Creative financing strategies
  • Broker-dealer compliance
  • Exchanges
  • Public company compliance

Protection of intellectual property

  • Licensing
  • Trademarks
  • Copyright
  • Terms of use and privacy policies
  • Trade secret protection

Governance and compliance

  • Creative governance models
  • Investor relations, meetings, and reporting
  • Compliance with filing and licensing requirements

Business transactions

  • Contracts
  • Negotiation

Employment matters

  • Employee incentive and engagement plans
  • Compliance with employment law
  • Employee documents
  • Employee handbooks
  • Separation agreements

Payments, local currency, and stored value cards

Tax

Litigation

Local government law and special assessment districts

Outside general counsel