Corporate Services

Our attorney has experience navigating entrepreneurs and seasoned business owners and managers in a wide range of industries, especially music, film, fine arts, education, community services, tech, philanthropy, consulting, research, and retail. Below are the corporate services we offer:

Business Formation & Planning

A business is never too small to consult a lawyer, and it's better to hire a corporate lawyer at an early stage—even before your new, expanded, or restructured company is registered with the Secretary of State.  When a group of aspiring entrepreneurs comes together for the first time, and when the first business plan is written, the seeds of future legal risks and governance blind spots are often already sown. Many entrepreneurs do not realize this until their company faces uncontrollable crises or, even worse, a knock at the door from regulatory authorities. 

Small and medium-sized businesses often face limited funds and resources when it comes to legal matters, yet our firm particularly make it our mission to help with: 

1. Preparation of business plans,
2. Entity selection from sole proprietorship, partnerships, LLC, nonprofit, and B-, C-, and S-corporations,
3. Entity formation, 
4. Preparation of LLC and partnership agreements, corporate bylaws, management structuring, and governance documents, including but not limited to ethics and code of conducts, internal policies, procedures, and protocols,
5. Business filings and licensure at state and federal levels,
6. State- and federal-level regulatory compliance evaluation,
7. Fundraising and capital formation for nonprofits and for-profit businesses,
8. Preparation and negotiation of employment contracts,
9. Risk assessment and asset management,
10. Commercial landlord-tenant matters,
11. Evaluation and negotiation of partnerships and collaborations,
12. Early planning of sustainability, succession, and dissolution，
13. Expanding business(es) into U.S. or China.

Governance, Compliance & Investigations

Many legal issues faced during the early stages of a business continue to persist as it grows, and new types of legal challenges constantly emerge. Over time, a company's operations and the relevant legal landscape may become vastly different from what they used to be. This means that maintaining stable and sustainable business practices, effective governance, and full compliance is a long-term endeavor. 

Therefore, in addition to the services mentioned above for business formation and planning, we also help businesses with: 

1. Optimizing the composition, procedures, duties, responsibilities, and compensations of boards of directors and committees, executives, and mid-level management personnel,
2. Optimizing corporate documents, including board committee charters, codes of conduct, and other internal policies, procedures, and protocols,
3. State- and federal-level compliance monitoring, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,
4. Preparation and filing of mandatory and voluntary disclosures, financial reports, and annual reports,
5. Optimizing sustainability and ESG practices,
6. Legal and financial risk assessment and mitigation, 
7. Continuous asset management,
8. Internal and external investigations of alleged frauds, regulatory violations, and white-collar crimes,
9. Advising on import, export, sanctions, and national security,
10. Advising on the use of artificial intelligence in business practices and governance.

Restructures, Dissolutions, Mergers & Acquisitions

Businesses come and go. To ensure that this process is handled cleanly and efficiently from both legal and financial perspectives, the assistance of a legal team is simply indispensable. Whether it’s a nonprofit or any types of for-profit business, involving domestic or cross-border (between U.S. and China) mergers and acquisitions, we are here to help with:

1. Advising boards of directors and executives on the legal, domestic and international tax, and regulatory matters, strategy planning, and risk assessment and mitigation,
2. Due diligence investigations,
3. Preparation and negotiation of transaction agreements,
4. Asset procurement, disposition and conversion,
5. Filings at state and federal levels.

*Some services require co-counsel with outside attorney(s). Fee-related matters will be disclosed.

*Our firm does not provide corporate services to publicly held corporations.