Brighter Bottom Lines

For businesses ranging from middle-market players to start-ups and rising stars, our business practice group adds value and brightens bottom lines.

We provide services for a wide variety of industries, organized as corporations, LLCs, or sole proprietorships. We position businesses to succeed through such changes as starting and restarts, mergers and consolidations, dissolutions and structural shifts.


  • Contract law
  • Corporate Succession and Buy/Sell Agreements
  • Entity Formation and Structuring
  • Home Builder and Developers
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Specialty Practices – Medical, Restaurant and Hospitality
  • Intellectual Property
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