Our business law practice includes assisting small businesses throughout Los Angeles, California, and Nevada with the following:

• Drafting, reviewing / revising, and negotiating commercial and business contracts, and advising and counseling regarding such agreements
• Employment law advice and agreements
• Independent contractor law advice and agreements
• Legal services for start-ups and entrepreneurs in industries including online/virtual, ecommerce, technology, real estate, retail, restaurants, consultants, entertainment, apparel, health care
• Business incorporation and forming limited liability companies
• Shareholder agreements, LLC member agreements, pre-incorporation agreements, and buy-sell agreements
• Business entity mergers, conversions, and change of jurisdiction, entity type, or tax election
• Registration, qualification, and cancellation of registration/qualification of foreign business entities
• Business incorporation for foreign nationals
• Los Angeles and other county California fictitious business name filings
• California registered agent services
• Maintaining California corporations and LLCs in active good standing
• Dissolving corporations and dissolving LLCs
• Partnership disputes, corporation shareholder disputes, and LLC member/manager disputes; "business divorce"
• Sales and purchases of business assets ("asset sales") or of corporate shares, limited liability company interests; purchase of franchises and independent businesses; sales of franchises and independent businesses; and other business change of ownership transactions
• Outsourced or "virtual" in-house counsel arrangements
• Negotiation, review/revision, and advice and counsel concerning commercial real estate leases and subleases for landlords and tenants
• Review, revision, drafting, and negotiation of licensing and franchise (franchisee-franchisor) agreements and FDDs
• HIPAA business associate agreement and other related contract drafting, review and compliance advice
• Legal advice and counsel regarding business and commercial transactions and disputes
• Entertainment law

The majority of our business law clients are startups or small businesses and entrepreneurs, however, we have and do provide business law services to larger organizations, many of whom find they don't get the attention they need at larger law firms.