For more than 25 years, Cotten Schmidt, L.L.P.’s business attorneys have provided comprehensive legal services to a diverse group of local, national, and international clients – including individuals and business entities alike – in a wide variety of activities, industries, and business transactions. Our wealth of business-law experience enables us to custom-tailor our services to each of our client’s particular needs and to provide practical and cost-effective legal solutions to the varied and complex issues faced in an ever-changing business environment.
Our attorneys have extensive expertise in forming, operating, financing, buying, and selling all forms of business enterprises, including corporations (both for-profit and nonprofit), general and limited partnerships, limited liability companies, professional corporations, and professional associations. We also routinely advise our clients on day-to-day legal issues that arise in the operation and governance of their businesses, as well as in analyzing business opportunities and negotiating, structuring, and properly documenting a variety of business transactions.
We represent clients in virtually all areas of business, including:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Purchases or sales of a business or the assets of a business, including stock purchase agreements and asset purchase agreements
- Executive employment agreements
- Stock incentive plans
- Severance arrangements
- Corporate governance matters
- Purchasing or leasing business property, equipment, or furnishings
- Stock options and other equity compensation
- Acquisition and licensing of business intellectual property
- Forming, operating, and liquidating business entities
- Employment and non-competition agreements
- Service contracts and licensing agreements
- Subscription, buy-sell, and shareholder agreements
- Indemnity agreements
- Joint ventures
- Franchising agreements