Nov 2, 2016 | Agreements, business attorney, Contract, Small business, Transactions
“Miscellaneous”, or “General” Provisions You’ve read and signed lots of contracts in your business, either your own company’s or ones sent by the other side to a transaction. Maybe you’ve been puzzled by those provisions that seem to be at the end of every contract,...
Oct 25, 2016 | business attorney, Corporation, Limiting liability, LLC, Small business, Startups
Your LLC needs a written operating agreement You have a great idea for a new business and have formed a limited liability company, an LLC. While corporations are required by state law to have bylaws, LLCs are not required to have written operating agreement. ...
Jul 18, 2016 | Acquisitions, Asset Purchase, business attorney, Contract, Corporation, Medium-sized business, Small business, Stock Acquisitions
Buyers versus Sellers In a recent post I outlined the features of the two main types of business acquisitions, stock and asset deals. To recap briefly, in a stock acquisition, the buyer purchases the stock of the company being acquired. In doing so the buyer takes...
Jun 24, 2016 | business attorney, Contract, LLC, Medium-sized business, Small business
Buying or Selling a Business: Stock vs Asset deals explained. Businesses are bought and sold all the time. Transactions range in size from under $100,000 to billions of dollars. For most sales of small to medium-size companies, the transaction is usually structured...
Apr 22, 2016 | business attorney, Corporation, Employment, Entrepreneurs, Limiting liability, Medium-sized business, Small business
7 Steps Your Business Can Take To Avoid Discrimination Claims If your business has employees, you know that managing them is a daily process, and often challenging. One challenge you want to avoid is a discrimination claim, in which an employee claims that they have...
Mar 30, 2016 | business attorney, Contract, Corporation, Entrepreneurs, LLC, Medium-sized business, Small business, Startups
Don’t do business on a handshake: get it in writing! People have been doing business together for thousands of years, and for just as long, they have been entering into verbal and written contracts. Here is a rental contract from nearly 4,000 years ago in...
