Business Counsel
Businesses do not experience legal problems one practice area at a time. A financing raises governance questions; a customer contract raises IP questions; a partner’s exit raises all of them at once. The firm’s business practice is built as one integrated discipline — so the counsel who structured your entity is the counsel who negotiates your credit facility, papers your enterprise deals, and, if it comes to it, litigates the fallout.
The firm advises founders, closely held and family-owned companies, franchisees, multi-location operators, restaurant and hospitality businesses, technology and digital-platform companies, professional practices, real estate sponsors, private investment businesses, and domestic and multinational enterprises. Engagements range from a single acquisition, agreement, lease, financing, or dispute to an ongoing outside general counsel relationship covering the company’s legal infrastructure.
The Work
FIFTEEN PRACTICESEntity selection driven by tax treatment and liability architecture, governance documents drafted to national standards, and founder arrangements that answer the hard questions while everyone still agrees.
02Entity Structuring & ReorganizationsSome structures are drawn on a napkin; the ones that survive scrutiny are engineered.
03LLC Operating AgreementsNearly every LLC dispute the firm litigates traces to the same origin: a company agreement that never contemplated the situation.
04Partnership AgreementsPartnerships concentrate risk in the relationships they paper.
05Corporate GovernanceGovernance is what a company can prove about its own decisions.
06ContractsA contract is a risk-allocation instrument that happens to describe a deal.
07Business TransactionsAsset purchases, equity purchases, and the structured deals in between — with the closing discipline of institutional practice.
08Credit Facilities & Real Estate FinanceThe Texas authority and enforceability opinions the lender requires, the UCC perfection analysis, the collateral and guaranty documentation, and the SPE-compliant entity structure — all executed to the lender’s checklist, on the lender’s timeline.
09Syndications & Private Investment StructuresSponsors sell two things: the asset and the structure.
10Executive Compensation & Equity IncentivesEquity incentives fail in two directions: they under-motivate, or they create tax liability nobody priced.
11BuyoutsBuyouts arrive in two moods: negotiated and contested.
12Startups & Founder AdvisingEarly legal work is infrastructure: invisible when done well, expensive when done late.
13SaaS, IP & Technology TransactionsTechnology companies live or die on their paper: the subscription agreement that scales or doesn’t, the liability cap that holds or doesn’t, the IP ownership that was assigned or merely assumed.
14Employment CounselingThe documentation and decisions that keep workforce issues from becoming disputes.
15Outside General CounselMost legal problems are cheaper as questions.
Representative Experience
FOUR MATTERSA family-owned, multi-location recreation-venue operator, across leases, expansion, operating and governance matters, contracts, and disputes.
A multi-entity, IP-intensive digital business: operating agreements, intercompany IP, platform and subscription terms, privacy and payment risk, and growth-stage contracts.
Entity structure, acquisitions, investors, leases, vendor contracts, workforce matters, and disputes.
Holding, management, and operating entities with governance, equity, authority, and guarantor requirements for a lender-driven closing.
Representative matters. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.