Understanding how to structure your business or organization has broad implications at inception and beyond. Taking full advantage of practices and structures that benefit you most is the specialty of the Business Organizations group at Cline Williams. We are able to provide a wide array of services to both public and private, for profit and not-for-profit entities and their owners, which include:

•  Entity selection, formation and operation of corporations, general and limited partnerships, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships
• Corporate maintenance, reorganization, recapitalizations, restructuring, reporting and governance matters
• Negotiation and documentation of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, including public or private financing of the transactions
• Structuring and negotiating joint ventures and strategic alliances
• Negotiation and documentation of public and private equity and debt financing
• Corporate governance, business ethics and state law compliance issues
• Business succession planning for closely-held entities
• Preparation and enforcement of employment contracts, shareholder agreements, franchising and licensing agreements, as well as supply, distribution and marketing arrangements