Business Organizations and Corporate Law

Lewis Glasser is prepared to assist its clients through the life cycle of their businesses - from formation through governance and management to liquidation and dissolution. Our Business Organizations and Corporate Law practice is advises our clients on the following matters:

• Choosing the appropriate business entity
• Forming business entities and ensuring that such entities comply with all regulatory requirements
• Negotiating and drafting shareholder agreements, management agreements and similar agreements which may need to be in place prior to the start of operations
• Advising clients on governance and authority issues
• Assisting clients in working through legal and business issues which arise during the ordinary course of operations, including issues related to government regulation, employee relations and taxes
• Representing clients in acquiring the financing necessary to begin or expand operations, either through seeking equity investments or third-party financing
  
• Devising strategies for dissolving or liquidating a client's business
  

Lewis Glasser attorneys also provide counsel in such matters as: state and local taxation, corporate distributions and reorganizations, tax aspects of buying, selling and leasing, including tax-free exchange transactions, general and limited partnership taxation, including providing tax insights for pension and profit-sharing plans, stock option and other employee benefit plans, and deferred compensation arrangements.

Mergers, Acquisitions and Reorganizations

Lawyers in our mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures practice draw upon the corporate, tax, real estate, environmental, labor & employment and litigation practices within the firm. Our ability to utilize these resources and focus towards a common goal significantly enhances our ability to provide our clients with the depth and scope of legal experience necessary to accomplish their objectives. Accompanied by a philosophy of getting clients the results they want, the lawyers in this practice have extensive experience in structuring complex and multi-faceted business transactions, drafting and negotiating comprehensive documents and handling the steps required to achieve closing.

We have represented sellers and buyers in acquisition transactions with almost equal frequency. The size of the transactions the firm handles has ranged from closely-held entities to large enterprises with national markets. Our clients have covered a wide variety of industries ranging from health care organizations to financial institutions to manufacturing operations. These transactions have been structured as stock purchases, mergers, tax-free reorganizations, and asset purchases and have involved private companies as well as publicly held corporations.