Transactional Practice Overview

Our firm's transactional practice is geared to providing general counsel and transactional support for business owners and managers of closely held businesses. Our ideal clients are growing businesses and businesses in transition. They typically average between $10 million and $75 million in annual revenues and have less than 100 employees.

Below is a select list of services that our firm provides as part of our transactional practice:

- Entity Formation

(*Fees start at $249 plus State Filing Costs)

- General Counsel and Contract Review

- Infrastructure Project Support/Advocacy

- Estate and Succession Planning

- Commercial Lease Review/Negotiation

- Business Immigration (P-3, H1-B, E, PERM)

- Intellectual Property: Patent, Trademark, Copyright

- Crisis Team Formation

Commercial Real Estate

Our commercial real estate practice includes both leases and sales transactions within Texas and in the Caribbean. Especially in today's market, each real estate transaction requires attention to the details of each agreement and support through the various phases from needs analysis through development. We focus on understanding our clients' needs and providing advice and advocacy only after thorough analysis.

Most commercial landlord-tenant disputes arise because the commercial tenant was poorly represented during the initial lease negotiations.

Many commercial tenants do not use a commercial tenant broker and some do not use a commercial broker at all. It is important to use a broker who understands the unique needs of commercial tenants or an attorney who is skilled in commercial tenant representation. Our firm represents tenants in commercial lease negotiations and we work with commercial tenant brokers on large transactions to ensure that they receive fair and competent representation.

Estate Planning and Succession Planning

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We assist our business clients with estate planning and succession planning transactions. For many business owners, their most valuable asset is their business. For most families who own business, the business is the most valuable asset. In successful situations, the business is the tool by which generational wealth is transferred. However, only 30% of businesses transition from first generation to second generation. Just 12% transition to the third generation and less than 5% make it to the fourth generation.

As part of our transactional practice, we help families create succession strategies to mitigate risk, and provide for orderly succession in the event of undesirable disputes between family member.

Startup Businesses

Startup businesses are growth-oriented and their operating strategy is focused more on wealth generation than risk mitigation. These businesses need attorneys with an appreciation for their culture and business strategy. Our firm’s lead attorney, Olaide Banks, is a Certified Public Accountant and experienced CFO for successful startups. We counsel startup companies from entity selection and formation through financing events.

Closely Held Entities

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Closely held entities and their owners have unique needs which require thoughtful consideration and insight that can only be gained through a clear understanding of those needs. We employ a relationship-based approach which allows us to advise and counsel our clients for the long-term.

Labor and Employment

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Many labor and employment disputes are the result of either inadequate planning or a failure in communication between the employer and employee. We assist our employer clients in planning for contingencies, presenting clear and concise communication and when necessary defending claims. We also serve clients who have been adversely affected by the improper actions of an employer.

Business Immigration

We assist businesses in obtaining both immigrant and non-immigrant visas ranging from H1-B, P, O and other visa classifications. Our attorneys stay current on the issues impacting immigrant and non-immigrant workers and can usually formulate a strategy for successfully obtaining a visa or adjustment of status within the minimum processing time.

We utilize premium processing services, whenever available, in order to obtain a final response on business applications within 15 days.

Nonprofit and Community Focused Organizations

We provide external general counsel services for nonprofit and community organizations. Our services include document review, negotiation, compliance advising, and litigation services. We have assisted nonprofit and charter school client organizations in formation, land acquisition, leadership compliance training, and litigation.