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The lawyers of Nicolosi & Associates offer an uncommon and valuable perspective to business clients because we are business owners as well. Our team includes attorneys who have founded, grown, and sold closely held companies and who today own thriving businesses. Our entrepreneurial experience means our clients can count on us to skillfully apply the “black letter” of the law while keeping the practical realities of the marketplace in mind.
Areas of Practice
Corporate and Partnership Law
We help new companies start from a solid foundation, and we work with them as they grow. We help established businesses protect their assets and position themselves for continuing success.
- Business organization: forming corporations, general and limited partnerships, family limited partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures
- Corporate governance: bylaws, shareholder agreements
- Employer/employee relations: employment contracts, non-compete agreements, union negotiations, terminations
- Transactions: equity capital transactions, institutional loans, sales/leasebacks
- Financing: review of lender documents, promissory notes, collateral assignments, mortgages
- Acquisition and disposition of businesses: tax-free mergers, reorganizations, stock transfers
- Tax: Federal, State, and estate tax matters
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Creditors’ Rights, Collections, and Bankruptcy Law
Our banking practice offers an extensive set of services designed to help lenders identify and qualify desirable financing candidates, foster healthy, productive relationships with borrowers, and protect lenders when loans become unsalvageable.
- Loan documentation preparation and review
- Refinancing, loan restructuring, workout arrangements
- Collections services
- Foreclosures and replevins
- Lease reviews
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Commercial Transactions and Finance
We counsel companies in a wide range of businesses and industries, and we protect their interests as vigorously as we would our own. Our long experience in working with lenders, combined with our thorough grasp of creditor/debtor law, is particularly valuable to clients in their relationships with lenders. We help borrowers understand their rights both before and after documents are executed.
- Business acquisition and disposition: tax-free mergers, reorganizations, stock transfers
- Oversee lender documents: review, negotiate, revise loan agreements, promissory notes, deeds of trust and security agreements, collateral assignments, mortgages
- Financing transactions: equity capital transactions, institutional loans, sales/leasebacks, real estate and construction loans
- Contract drafting and review
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Closely Held Business Planning
Our attorneys have founded, grown, and sold their own closely held businesses and these valuable experiences inform the legal guidance we offer our family business clients.
- Estate, tax, and retirement planning
- Business valuations, buy/sell agreements, and marketing and negotiating the sale of a business
- Succession planning and ownership transfer
- Financial and tax planning
- Management counsel: governance structure, definition of roles and responsibilities/creation of job descriptions, strategic planning, management transition planning, leadership and management development processes, compensation policies, conflict management
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Litigation and Mediation
Nicolosi & Associates litigators avoid trial whenever possible, but litigate aggressively when necessary. We are committed stewards of our client’s resources; we work as efficiently as possible to control costs and to recommend practical and economic strategies.
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