Services
In 39 years of practicing law in New York and Connecticut, I have performed just about every service a growing business needs.
Contracts: drafting, reviewing and negotiating all types of business agreements.
Business Formations: organizing corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs), limited liability partnerships (LLPs), and other small business entities.
Business Acquisitions: sales and purchases of existing businesses and professional practices.
Business Finance: commercial and SBA loans; venture capital, “angel” and other investment transactions.
Franchises: assisting people who are buying into business franchises or “business opportunities”; assisting franchises with federal and state legal compliance.
Business Partnering Arrangements: agreements between business partners and shareholders; buy-sell arrangements; mediating disputes among business owners; joint venture and co-operative marketing agreements between companies.
Employment and Consulting Agreements: employment, independent contractor, “assignment of inventions”, noncompetes and other agreements.
Technology and Intellectual Property: transactions relating to information technology, computer software, telecommunications and Internet services, including licenses and other dispositions of intellectual property, Web site disclaimers and privacy policies.
Entertainment and Publishing: transactions involving literary property and artist representation.
Real Estate: leases of office and retail space.
Estate Planning: simple will and estate planning for business owners; family limited partnerships and LLCs designed to keep businesses in the same family over several generations.
What I Don’t Do
Some of the things I DON’T do (although I have a good referral network, and can put people into the right hands) are:
- residential real estate;
- patent registrations;
- litigation of any kind;
- criminal work (e.g. drunken driving).
Response Time
Every client is a priority client. I always respond to Voicemail messages within 24 hours of receipt (and usually much sooner than that), and answer my e-mail messages at least once or twice a day, even when I’m on the road. I will always be up front with a client about any limitations on my schedule.
