Business Counseling
The Business Law Practice has a team of experienced attorneys with a proven track record of guidance and leadership. For nearly 115 years, our business lawyers have maintained a premier business counseling legal practice. Members of the Reinhart Business Law Practice take great pride in their numerous long-standing client relationships. Reinhart business lawyers regularly represent clients from the early phases of incorporation, organization and formation of corporations, limited liability companies and other business entities through strategic business ventures and transactions, succession planning and/or sale of the business.
Reinhart's highest priority is developing a dynamic and enduring counseling relationship with our clients. First-rate business counseling legal advice must be customized to the client's goals, and special attention should be placed on the many disciplines that come into play. Following a best practices approach, our business lawyers endeavor to form a critical understanding of the client's business, structure and industry. With this thorough and critical understanding, Reinhart business lawyers typically become trusted advisors and provide extraordinary business counseling legal services to meet our clients' needs. Our clients look to us for seasoned business judgment in resolving their legal issues and for creative and pragmatic solutions for the challenges faced during all stages of the business life cycle.
As trusted advisors, Reinhart business lawyers represent and counsel clients in the following areas:
- Selecting the most advantageous form of business entity
- Preparation of incorporation, organizational and formation documents including shareholder, partnership and operating agreements
- Mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations and sales of businesses
- Preparation of purchasing, leasing, manufacturing, product distribution and sales representative agreements
- Purchase, sale and leasing of capital equipment, including private aircraft
- Structuring, negotiating and documenting complex commercial transactions, joint ventures and strategic partnerships
- Business venture, consulting and employment agreements
- Shareholder, member and partner disputes
- Protection of intellectual property including patent, trademark, software and technology licensing and software development
- Taxation and strategic planning
- Business succession and transition planning
- Governmental relations and regulatory compliance
- Labor relations and employer counseling
- Insolvency, bankruptcy reorganization and liquidation proceedings
- Structuring and negotiating workouts and other informal arrangements for creditors and debtors