Business Law

Our team provides comprehensive outside general counsel to start-ups and existing businesses alike. We lay the necessary legal foundation for an emerging entity’s success through the following services:

Start-Ups:

• • Entity selection and formation
  • Drafting of internal corporate documents  
    • Operating agreements
    • Shareholder agreements
    • By-laws
    • Buy / sell agreements
    • Succession planning
  • Drafting of employment and independent contractor agreements
  • Drafting of third-party contracts
  • Drafting of non-disclosure agreements
  • Drafting of confidentiality agreements
  • Non-solicitation and non-compete agreements

With the necessary legal structure and protectionary documents executed, our firm’s services then assist an existing company to build on that foundation through growth and acquisition by providing counsel for:

Fundraising / Private Equity:

• • Drafting of private placement memorandums
  • Providing counsel on securities laws issues and exemptions
  • Stock / membership share offerings

Mergers and Acquisitions:

• • Asset purchase agreements
  • Stock sale agreements
  • Membership interest purchase agreements
  • Franchise Disclosure Document Review and franchise acquisition and sale
  • Shareholder buyouts

Furthermore, the McGrath Law Firm, PA’s corporate counsel provide its clients with a unique skillset in that we don’t handle transactions alone.  Our years of experience litigating cases provide our clients with trial counsel who knows the impact of “the comma in the courtroom.”  Specifically, our firm protects a company’s business interests in the following types of litigation:

 

• Shareholder disputes
• Franchise termination and renegotiation
• Limited liability company member disputes
• Non-solicitation and non-compete litigation
• Breaches of asset purchase, stock sale, and membership interest purchase agreements
• Trade secrets litigation
• Collections