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  • Entity formation
  • Succession planning
  • Merger and acquisition
  • Complex commercial transactions
  • Charitable giving

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  • Tax planning
  • Document creation
  • Contracts
  • Mediation and negotiation
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BUSINESS FORMATION

Looking to start a business?  Dresser Law will review your goals, assets, and planned operations to determine the best business form from a tax and legal perspective:  C corporation, S corporation, limited liability company, or partnership.  After a thorough review is completed, we will prepare the appropriate materials and communicate with the state to confirm your entity is formed.

PERMANENT BUSINESS COUNSEL

After a business is formed, you must determine how it will operate.  Dresser Law can provide permanent counsel to consistently address your company’s goals, assets, and legal needs.  These include:

  • Ownership structure
  • Protection from personal liability
  • Business disputes and intractable differences between owners
  • Employment law and minimizing potential employee litigation
  • Identifying risks and risk mitigation
  • Lease or real estate contracts for business locations
  • Asset protection, including intellectual
  • Process for potential sale of business
  • Succession planning

OUTSIDE BUSINESS COUNSEL

Not all businesses require constant legal presence.  To help entities address legal concerns as they arise, Mr. Dresser offers temporary and permanent outside business counsel at a fixed monthly rate and time.  Our outside business counsel program can be structured to meet the needs of your entity.

COMPLEX COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS

As a business grows, it may become appropriate to purchase another entity to complement or grow the existing entity.  Early use of a business attorney in commercial transactions typically leads to smoother negotiation between buyer and seller parties, negating common problems and misunderstandings.  With decades of experience facilitating major, multi-jurisdictional merger and acquisitions, Dresser Law protects clients before, during and after the buying and selling process by:

  • Determining the most appropriate and desirable transaction structure for the client and situation
  • Drafting a letter of intent when necessary, to serve as a framework for the buyer and seller as they move toward signing a purchase agreement
  • Thoroughly reviewing the terms and conditions of the purchase agreement
  • Performing legal due diligence to identify any possible deal breakers in the purchase agreement
  • Negotiating the terms and conditions of the purchase agreement, when necessary
  • Preventing the disclosure of confidential and proprietary information by the opposing party
  • Ensuring the appropriate materials are prepared and filed post-transaction

If you have a business matter you’d like to discuss in Sturgis, Michigan or surrounding counties, please call (269) 689-8527 or send us an email through the contact form here.