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BUSINESS FORMATION AND BUSINESS CONTRACTS

We have the expertise and the experience to guide you in how to create the strongest foundation for your new or established business. 

Most business owners start their business with great hopes and expectations, yet fail to see the importance of putting into place contracts that address problems that might arise in the future.  When problems do appear, business owners quickly learn the consequences of failing to plan.

Without clear contracts in place, a number of things can occur when problems arise:

• The business can suffer as the owners of the business become more and more suspicious of the other.
• One of the business owners simply leaves, taking with him or her their talent, clients, and capital. The business suffers the resulting consequences, with the possibility that the business will fail.
• Without addressing issues in advance, if problems arise in the future, the problems are typically resolved only through hiring attorneys, litigation and the stress, disappointment and lost money that results as the business owners attempt to find a solution to their problem.
• The business fails.

S.E. Cowen Law offers the following benefits:

• We will work closely with you and assist you in constructing or reconstructing your business with so that it has the strongest possible foundation.
• We will assist you in identifying the concerns specific to your business that could create problems in the future.
• We will give you your options to solve existing problems, or that could arise in the future.
• We will put together clear contracts that set forth what happens if an anticipated situation does in fact arise in the future.
• We will prepare for you contracts that give you a sense of security and protection, and that allow you to focus on your business and making it as successful as possible.

A lawyer’s experience and abilities are what give the lawyer the ability to look into the future and identify particular problems that could arise in your business and to provide to you the possible solutions.  When you start a business, that is the time to assess and move ahead cautiously. 

S.E. Cowen Law has experience in contract preparation, including:

• Employment agreements
• Operating agreements between business owners regarding how the profits and losses will be divided
• Contracts for the sale or purchase of a business’s assets or corporate shares
• Buy-sell agreements, or agreements between owners as to when a business owner must or may sell their ownership interest.
• Confidentiality agreements
• Stock option agreements
• Rental agreements
• Personal property lease agreements
• Intellectual property agreements
• Promissory notes
• Severance agreements
• Contracts regarding the purchase or sale of real property