Business Legal Services

As a business focused law firm, Lodestone Legal Group works with business owners, entrepreneurs, and inside general counsels to provide them with direction and guidance in regards all their business legal needs so that our clients obtain the bests results for their business. Accordingly, Lodestone Legal Group offers business legal services aimed at helping businesses form, operate, and grow.

Click the image to the left to hear from one of our business attorneys about the services we offer and how Lodestone is different from some traditional firms.

What We Offer

One of the most important, but sometimes overlooked, issues in regards to operating a business is ensuring that the business is setup soundly and that the business has correctly maintained and protected its legal structure. At Lodestone Legal Group we guide our clients through the setup process and help ensure that our clients establish the appropriate governing documents, establish owner agreements, continue to maintain the businesses’ governance structure, and continue to follow corporate formalities.

Many business owners fail to plan for the death, disability, divorce, bankruptcy, retirement, or falling out of the owners of the business. At Lodestone Legal Group, we provide our clients with the direction necessary to develop a succession plan so that the value of the business can be passed on to a deceased owner’s heirs or survive the loss of an owner. By establishing a succession plan, we can help our clients avoid any negative results upon the loss of an owner.

For any business providing a product or service, its important to have a contract specifically for that product and service. At Lodestone Legal Group, we help our clients create customized contracts for their products and services which contain the essential terms of the deal and the necessary legal protections in order to ensure that in the unlikely event of a dispute, the results of the dispute are in our client’s favor.

Signing third party contracts are a part of any business. At Lodestone Legal Group, we review and negotiate contracts on our client’s behalf in order to ensure that they understand the terms of the contract that they are signing and to prevent unforeseen results of a one sided or poorly drafted contract. We advise and guide our clients in regards to the language of the contract and help insure that our clients do not sign a unfair contract by negotiating on their behalf when necessary.

Additional services

Corporate Formation
Corporate Tax
Partnership Tax
Mergers and Acquisitions
Executive Compensation
Venture Capital
Debt Financing
Franchising

Disclaimer

The information and materials available at this web site are for informational purposes only and not intended for the purpose of providing legal advice. You should contact an attorney for advice with respect to any particular issue or problem. Accessing this website, the material posted on this website, the email links contained within this site do not create an attorney-client relationship between Lodestone Legal Group and the user. The opinions expressed on this site are the opinions of the individual author and may not represent the opinions of the firm or any individual attorney.

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