Business Corporate Law
The attorneys at the CVM Law Group spend every day in the business worlds of California and Tennessee, helping real estate developers and other companies sort through complicated legal issues to run their business, complete a project, or resolve a dispute. From entity formation to handling business and real estate transactions of all types, lawyers at CVM have the knowledge, skills, and experience to help their clients achieve their business goals.
Entity Formation
Forming a corporate entity is an early, important step in operating a successful enterprise, and choosing the right structure can be critical. Different corporate forms have vastly different implications for how the business and its owners are taxed; liability for acts of the business, its employees, and owners; and how important business decisions are made, from day-to-day management issues to how business succession and dissolution matters will be handled.
CVM Law Group assists in the formation of any available California business entities:
- Corporation
- Limited Liability Company
- Limited Partnership
- General Partnership
- Limited Liability Partnership
- Sole Proprietorship
The firm is particularly well-versed in the formation of companies for real estate development and construction projects and frequently forms limited partnerships and limited liability companies for those purposes, as well as other joint ventures and strategic alliances.
The firm's lawyers take care to prepare all necessary documents, instruments, and agreements in order to establish the company, including articles of incorporation and operating agreements, as well as important related documents such as buy-sell and confidentiality agreements. The firm can also continue to assist the client with ongoing legal requirements for business operations, maintaining necessary documents, filings, and other recordkeeping requirements mandated by state or federal law.
Transactions
Contracts touch upon every aspect of business operations, from daily routine transactions to business-altering changes from mergers & acquisitions to dissolutions. All of these transactions benefit from legal advice and counsel, whether they require actual representation and negotiation, initial drafting of templates at the business start-up, or occasional document review before the transaction is sealed. The CVM legal team can help ensure that contracts with customers, vendors, suppliers, and employees all represent the client's interest in the transaction while protecting their rights in the case of a future disagreement or contract dispute. Other important transactions that benefit from legal counsel include buy-sell agreements and other family business transfers and business succession planning transactions, commonly negotiated as part of the firm's estate planning practice.
The firm further assists corporate clients with financing and governance issues, including shareholder agreements and derivative actions, mergers & acquisitions, and the many issues involved in the corporation's relationship to its officers and directors, employees, shareholders, customers, and creditors.
Where real property is involved, the firm's attorneys can adequately advise or represent clients in a variety of like-kind exchanges, such as section 1031 tax-deferred exchanges and other deferred exchanges, simultaneous exchanges, and multiple property exchanges. The firm also has particular experience and expertise advising large investors on securities matters, including advising real estate developers on the latest rules for securities compliance.
The lawyers at CVM Law Group also counsel business and corporate clients on employee benefits and executive compensation issues, including salary negotiations, incentive compensation, IRAs and 401(k) plans, stock options and other deferred compensation, and early retirement plans. The firm's attorneys also assist in compliance with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules and tax laws, as well as the mandates placed on plans qualifying under ERISA.
Legal Sense with a Business Sensibility
The lawyers at CVM Law Group have decades of experience advising and representing real estate development companies and small and large businesses across the entire range of corporate matters. For sound advice or representation in any transaction from entity formation to dissolution, contact CVM Law Group at their main office in Sacramento or at their offices in Irvine, California or Memphis, Tennessee.
