Corporate

Lemery Greisler serves as general counsel and outside counsel to a wide variety of business organizations, from publicly traded entities to small, closely-held organizations, in connection with all aspects of their business:

• Selection and formation of the proper business organizational form
• Limited liability companies
• Corporations
• Partnerships
• Limited partnerships
• Acquisitions and dispositions
• Mergers and reorganizations
• Redemptions of ownership interest
• Negotiation and finalization of employment
• Operating/partnership and inter-owner agreements
• Structuring succession plans
• “Business divorces”, both amicable and acrimonious

Lemery Greisler’s attorneys’ extensive corporate experience spans the myriad of issues and situations that arise in connection with the formation, operation, transition or ultimate sale of a business.  In connection with each of these stages the Firm provides advice to its clients on the potential tax implications and possible deferrals, obligations and indemnifications, that may survive the transaction at hand and the benefits and restrictions for any assets received.  In addition, the Firm assists its business clients in obtaining capital and operating financing from initial start- up acquisitions or venture-capital financing, to mezzanine financing for the growing and expanding business and long-term commercial financing for the client with a developed business.  The attorneys have developed relationships with venture capital companies, mezzanine financing companies, and lenders to assist in the provision of needed capital, providing clients with a connection to successful and competitive outside organizations.

The Firm’s securities practice works together with the corporate and partnership practice and the municipal finance practice.  In the corporate and partnership practice attorneys advise clients with respect to securities law implications of acquisitions, mergers and other transactions.  In the securities practice attorneys supervise, document, and assist clients with a variety of public and private placements, as underwriter’s counsel, as investor’s counsel, and as company’s counsel. 

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