Services | Business Law

Set Up of New Businesses

The Law Office of John C. Seipp values its relationships with its business clients, offering a broad array of business legal services. From the smallest fledging business to the long-established business concern, we can handle most any legal matter that businesses encounter. We regularly offer a full range of legal services to new and established businesses, including: incorporations, creation of limited liability companies, partnerships, employment agreements,  vendor agreements, leases and charter amendments.
New businesses that attempt to create legal entities using "canned" formats usually do not save money in the long run, and loose the benefit of good legal counsel on the proper use and maintenance of their organic business documents. In doing so, they may fail to address important legal matters that come back to haunt them in the future.

Ongoing Business Needs
Meeting the ongoing legal needs of our business clients is a major focus.  We strive for proactive and forward-looking solutions that enable businesses to run smoothly, save money and avoid needless disputes.  To these ends, we often provide:

Our close association with the local banking community enables us to assist business customers with their special financing needs.

Business Succession Planning
The family business is the often most valuable asset people own. Consequently, it is important that methods be devised manage the succession and transition of ownership to others, so the retiring or departing owners can realize a fair return on their investment, and the business can survive in the future to the mutual benefit of both the prior owners and new owners.  To this end, we help businesses tailor stock transfer agreements (sometimes called Buy-Sell Agreements) and similar succession-planning tools to meet the future needs of their particular business.

Business Purchases
Buying or selling a business? We can help. We often are involved in negotiating the terms of the deal, working with accountants, brokers, and agencies of government that have jurisdiction over aspects of the deal. Our services in this area typically include:



We arrange all the details of closing, de-stressing the process with legal understanding, insight, persistence and patience. Our attorneys realize that "over-lawyering" can smother a good deal, but lack of attention to important details can breed disaster. We know how to strike a balance between caution and making the transaction happen for the benefit of the client.



Business Litigation
Litigation, unfortunately, is sometimes a component of running a business. Customers fail to pay their bills or become dissatisfied with the client's product or service. Insurance companies fail to fulfill their obligations. Other businesses commit an unethical practice and the client needs a remedy. Government bureaucracy gets in the way, or oversteps its proper boundaries. ;The list of possible disputes is endless. We attempt to negotiate a peaceful and efficient resolution whenever possible. But when litigation is filed against our client or must be filed by our client as a last resort, we are ready to support the client through difficult and complex legal proceedings, including lawsuits, arbitrations and mediations.



Thriving Businesses
Thriving, proactive and prosperous businesses come back to us again and again for advice and assistance. No wonder we view them as our "bread and butter" clients. Experience has taught them that a minor investment in legal services at the proper time can yield major savings later on.