Practice Areas Business Law Services
The founders of Waterford aren’t just lawyers who advise their clients on how to do business, they do business themselves. We have extensive experience in managing and operating a wide variety of businesses ranging from banks, to call centers, investment firms, medical companies, home improvement companies and real estate development firms. We know what it is like to have to actually understand business law issues for our own partners, employees and customers.
Waterford advises clients in a broad range of organizational, business, financial and operational matters. Our clients include entrepreneurs, closely-held businesses, corporations, limited liability companies, joint ventures and partnerships, as well as public not for profit corporations. We guide our clients through all stages of their business growth, from start-up and early-stage businesses into middle market and larger companies and, finally, into succession planning and exit strategies.
Our extensive business law experience includes advising closely held business. Services to closely held businesses include advice on: choice of entity; tax and estate planning; shareholder, partnership and operating agreements; financing arrangements, including start-up and later-stage debt and equity financing; employee benefits and executive compensation; labor relations and real estate. Additionally Waterford focuses on the following areas:
- General business guidance and legal advice, including acting as outside "general counsel" for many companies
- Structuring entities, including corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, based on liability, tax and operational considerations
- Executive compensation, structuring compensation and benefit arrangements
- Corporate finance, including equity and debt financing, venture capital and private placements
- Mergers and acquisitions, both acquiring and selling businesses
- Commercial finance, representing borrowers and lenders in all varieties of secured and unsecured arrangements
- Employee benefits, including option plans, restricted stock and other incentive programs
- Contracts and agreements, across the spectrum of all business needs
- Strategic alliances and joint ventures and
- Internet and technology law matters
