Buying and Selling Business

FLORIDA BUSINESS TRANSACTION ATTORNEY

WE HELP YOU BUY OR SELL YOUR BUSINESS

Selling or purchasing a business is a significant decision – with big financial and legal consequences. Buying or selling a business requires an analysis of your position and a careful legal review to ensure protection of your interests. Whether you are forming a new business, you already have a small company, or you are the CEO of a large multinational corporation, we can help. Our knowledgeable business attorneys can review all aspects of your transaction to make sure you are protected and are getting what you expect from the deal.

Whether you are a buyer or a seller, we can provide comprehensive guidance and representation at all phases of the sale or purchase, including:

• Pre-negotiation issues: We help our clients negotiate major points of the deal and summarize them in a letter of intent.
• Due diligence: We help our clients gather all the information they need to know to determine whether a deal is worth pursuing.
• Asset or stock deals: We help our clients understand the tax, debt and liability consequences of each type of deal.

We can prepare any necessary documents for you, including:

• Mortgages
• Security agreements
• Non-disclosure agreements
• Letters of intent
• Escrow agreements
• Non-compete agreements
• Promissory notes
• Assignment of lease
• Corporate resolutions
• Operating agreements
• Stock pledge agreements
• Assignment of contracts and warranties
• Purchase agreements

START UP BUSINESS VENTURES

Hiring and working with a lawyer is often confusing and daunting, especially if you’ve never done it before. But when you’re starting a business, it’s crucial. We advise Start-Ups and their Founders in all aspects of business formation, choice of entity and jurisdiction, formation of business entities, founder agreements, consulting agreements, confidentiality agreements, start-up funding, seed investments, protection of names, ideas and inventions.

REASONS TO HIRE AN ATTORNEY FOR YOUR NEW BUSINESS STARTUP

1. You will need a lawyer who can understand your business quickly; prepare the standard form contracts you will need with customers, clients and suppliers; and help you respond to contracts that other people will want you to sign.
2. Business organizations. You will need a lawyer who can help you decide whether a corporation or limited liability company (LLC) is the better way to organize your business and prepare the necessary paperwork.
3. Real estate. Leases of commercial space–such as offices and retail stores–are highly complex and are always drafted to benefit the landlord. Because they tend to be “printed form” documents, you may be tempted to think they are not negotiable. Not so. Your attorney should have a standard “tenant’s addendum,” containing provisions that benefit you, that can be added to the printed form lease document.
4. Taxes and licenses. Although your accountant will prepare and file your business tax returns each year, your lawyer should know how to register your business for federal and state tax identification numbers, and understand the tax consequences of the more basic business transactions in which your business will engage.
5. Intellectual property. If you are in a media, design or other creative-type business, it is certainly a “plus” if your lawyer can help you register your products and services for federal trademark and copyright protection. Generally, though, these tasks are performed by specialists who do nothing but “intellectual property” legal work. If your lawyer says he or she “specializes in small businesses,” then he or she should have a close working relationship with one or more intellectual property specialist.

Hiring Legal Counsel 

As business attorneys we make it our business to keep small business owners out of court and business litigation. The lawyers at Loevin Law Group, PA have over 15 years of experience with dealing with buying and selling of businesses. LOEVIN LAW GROUP PA attorneys are available to assist with everything from simple buy/sell agreements to mergers and acquisitions of publicly traded companies.