Practice Areas
Business Planning
Our Business Practice Group advises clients on the effective use of various forms of business entities and the conduct of business transactions involving such entities. From the formation and organization of business entities, through the financing, capitalization, and reorganization of those entities, to the sale, dissolution and liquidation of those entities, our attorneys provide planning and design, negotiation, if needed, and transaction documentation and execution.
Our business lawyers have many years of experience in planning and advising both large and small businesses in Chattanooga and the Southeast, closely held and widely held business entities, family-owned entities, entrepreneurs, emerging businesses, technology ventures, corporately owned entities, joint ventures, investor groups, venture capital groups, investment funds and financial institutions.
Members of the Business Practice Group handle all forms of legal transactions with the following kinds of business entities:
- Corporations - for profit - C corporations & S corporations
- Corporations - nonprofit
- Limited liability companies - member managed, board or manager managed, and single member
- Limited liability partnerships
- General partnerships
- Limited partnerships
- Professional entities (PC, PLLC).
Our Services Include:
- Mergers and combinations
- Reorganizations and equity exchanges
- Cross entity conversions
- Recapitalization and refinancing transactions
- Allocation and distribution structures
- Spin-off transactions
- Business succession planning
- Asset protection plans
- Venture capital financing
- Leveraged capital financing
- Family business plans
- E-business
- Private placement transactions
- Asset acquisitions and purchase transactions.