Business & Corporate Law

As Michigan and Florida business attorneys, we help clients with a wide variety of their business law needs. We work hard to provide our business law clients with practical and useful advice for starting, managing, and growing a business venture/enterprise in Michigan .We also provide our business clients with proactive and effective legal representation to protect their business interests should a business dispute arise that needs to be resolved through negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, or litigation in Michigan state or federal courts.

We have represented business clients of all types, from Michigan entrepreneurs and start-up ventures, to small and mid-sized companies. Our comprehensive Michigan business law representation includes the following areas:

Entity Selection and Business Formation/Incorporation

The choice of which legal entity to use for a business is one of the most important decisions that a start-up venture will face. In Michigan and Florida the most common options for operating a business are a limited liability company (LLC), S corporation, or C corporation. There are a number of factors that must be considered when deciding which entity to use for operating a business. These factors include tax, legal, and operating considerations.

Although it is possible to form a business through incorporation services like LegalZoom or Rocket Lawyer, it is important to remember that incorporation services do not provide legal advice and cannot provide their customers with legal analysis or advice on the important entity selection issues that each start-up company faces. This advice and analysis can only be provided by a competent business law attorney.We provide our clients with this advice and analysis and also help our clients with preparing and filing the paperwork necessary to form and organize a Michigan and Florida business entity.

Purchase and Sale/Transfer of a Business

We have extensive experience in the preparation, negotiation, and review of business purchase/sale contracts and buy-sell agreements. We have represented both buyers and sellers in business transfer transactions in a wide variety of industries.

In each business transfer matter that we work on, we consult with our clients and listen carefully to their goals and wishes. We then work hard to make sure that the transaction documents fairly and accurately represent the best deal possible for our clients. We also work to make sure that any transfer of a business is done in a way that is the most tax efficient possible for our clients.

Business Formalities and Operations

We regularly provides our business law clients with ongoing legal representation with respect to issuing and transferring corporate stock/shares, preparation of corporate minutes and business records, compliance with regulatory guidelines and requirements, compliance with annual State business filing requirements, tax issues/planning, and numerous other legal aspects of operating a business.

Although some business owners do not like to deal with these items, they are important for maintaining the ongoing viability of a business enterprise and for obtaining and maintaining all of the various legal protections that are afforded to properly formed and maintained business enterprises.

Failure by a Michigan or Florida business to properly follow and maintain the business formalities that are required under State law can have disastrous consequences for that business and its owner(s). It is crucial that any business operating retain competent legal counsel to advise regarding these issues.

Commercial Real Estate

We have extensive experience in representing clients in a number of different commercial real estate transactions and deals. These include the purchase and sale of commercial real estate, leases, financing, and construction/development matters.

We understand that from a legal perspective, the key to successful real estate deals and transactions is to fully understand the client's business goals, assertively advocating the client's position in contract negotiations, and then accurately documenting the deal reached on behalf of the client.

We also understand that the role of a Michigan commercial real estate attorney is to help the client get the deal done while at the same time working tirelessly to provide the client with as much legal protection possible.

Business Succession

We provide our business law with practical and effective legal representation in business succession matters of all kinds. We draw on an interdisciplinary approach to advise and represent clients in business succession matters so that our clients' financial and legal goals can be reached in the most legally effective and tax efficient manner possible.

We understand that a successful business succession involves many moving parts and we strive to work well with our clients' other advisers such as accountants, CPA's and financial planners in order to craft and achieve a business succession plan that secures and rewards our clients for the hard work they put in while building up their business enterprises.

We also understand that business succession matters often involve our clients' lifework and therefore often present sensitive issues that must be dealt with very carefully in order for our clients to successfully implement a legally sound and operationally viable business succession plan.

General Business Transactions

We assist our business law clients with preparing, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of general business transaction documents. These documents include contracts, bills of sale, franchise agreements and disclosure documents, equipment purchase agreements and leases, licensing and distribution agreements, as well as many other kinds of general business/commercial agreements.

We will work hard to provide our business clients with timely, proactive, and useful legal representation in their business law matters.

Please contact McCarty Law Offices, PLC today to help with your Business Law needs!

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These materials have been prepared by McCarty Law Office, PLC for information purposes only. These materials do not constitute legal advice and cannot be relied upon by readers for their particular circumstance. Receipt of this information does not create an Attorney-Client relationship.