GENERAL COUNSEL SERVICES
We serve as outside general counsel for businesses, including those in real estate, food and beverage, manufacturing, and consumer and e-commerce sales. As general counsel, we become intimately familiar with our clients’ operations and management team, and we deliver legal guidance as needed on a broad range of issues, including those arising from corporate governance, vendor or third-party contracts, employment, intellectual property, and subpoena compliance. Our clients enjoy easy access to attorneys who understand their business, respond promptly, and are ready to discuss legal issues. To more quickly solve our clients’ issues, we tap into our extensive network of legal specialists. We offer flexible billing structures and arrangements for businesses that desire general counsel services without needing to employ an in-house attorney.
COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS LITIGATION
We handle a wide variety of commercial and business litigation matters, including claims of breach of contract, partnership and corporate disputes, fraud, unfair competition, breach of fiduciary duty, and other business torts. Our litigation experience covers many industries, including real estate, food and beverage, product liability, e-commerce, manufacturing, retail, and financial services. In addition to litigating in court, we have extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation, as well as collection and enforcement of judgments. We combine our big firm training with practical and efficient litigation strategies to efficiently achieve our clients’ objectives. Whether the objective is a quick settlement, taking a case to trial, or something in between, we litigate effectively.
REAL ESTATE LITIGATION
Because we work with so many clients in the real estate industry, including real estate developers and hotel owners and operators, many of our litigation matters involve real estate in some form, whether a lease, purchase agreement, or joint venture agreement. As with our business litigation matters, we employ practical and efficient strategies to resolve our clients’ real estate disputes. Representative real estate matters include actions for breach of purchase and sale agreement, breach of lease, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of construction agreements, loan disputes, failure to return earnest money deposits, fraudulent misrepresentation or concealment in sale of real estate, breach of joint venture to buy or develop real estate, and tortious interference claims.
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
We guide clients through various aspects of real estate transactions, including ownership, operation, acquisition and disposition, lease negotiation, construction, development, partnership or joint ventures, and lending. We help clients understand, protect, and maximize ownership and use rights in a broad range of real estate projects and investments. We routinely assist landlords and tenants in lease preparation and review, including food and beverage businesses and franchisors and franchisees.
CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS
Our core areas of service include forming and maintaining business entities, domestic and cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and corporate finance. Among other things, we help clients access capital, restructure operations, complete acquisitions, maintain daily operations, prepare and review contracts and agreements, and strategize on business plans.