Business Transactions Attorneys

Hershner Hunter’s Business Transactions Practice puts the clients’ business objectives first and foremost. Our attorneys strive to understand how your business operates, its place in the market, your choices about risk management, and how you prefer to handle legal matters. With this knowledge, we can help efficiently resolve your day-to-day issues with an eye toward your long-term business objectives. In short, we make it our business to know your business.

Practice Group Attorneys

Services

Our lawyers help businesses of all sizes deal with financial, operational, regulatory, and governance issues, including:

General Corporate

Our attorneys counsel clients on entity selection and formation, company governance, and other corporate law matters, including:

- - Best practices for entity formation and governance
  - Voting agreements and corporate control
  - Board governance and shareholder communications
  - Responsibilities/duties of officers and directors
  - Conflicts of interest and related-party transactions

Mergers and Acquisitions

Our M&A experience includes a wide range of strategic transactions:

- - Business combinations
  - Joint ventures
  - Stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions
  - Restructurings and recapitalizations
  - Spin-offs

Depending on the particular needs of a M&A transaction, we can draw upon our capabilities in specialized fields such as securities, real estate, environmental, employee benefits, intellectual property, and employment.

Commercial Contracts

Hershner Hunter’s attorneys are experienced at drafting and negotiating a broad spectrum of commercial contracts, including:

- - - Product sales and distribution arrangements
    - Advanced equipment sales
    - “Software as a service” agreements
    - All forms of business contracts, including the sale of goods, the provision of services, technology innovation, and the development of real property

Business Purchases and Sales

Every business purchase and sale includes unique set of circumstances. Whether you are the buyer or the seller, our experienced attorneys will help you navigate business and legal issues associated with the transaction, including:

- - - Letters of intent and non-disclosure agreements
    - Tax implications, e.g. stock v. asset acquisitions
    - Due diligence

Technology Transactions

We work with innovative technology companies on a wide range of complex and sophisticated transactions, as well as clients for whom technology transactions play a critical, but not core, role.

Our experience includes:

Development agreements
Copyright, patent, and trademark licenses
Manufacturing and fabrication agreements
Product distribution and supply agreements
User agreements, terms of use, and privacy policies
Joint venture, affiliate, and other collaboration agreements
OEM and value-added reseller agreements
Supply agreements for complex equipment and related maintenance services

Family Business & Succession Planning

We provide trusted advice to family business owners as they work through sensitive and complex issues associated with transferring the company to the next generation, including:

Maximizing the value of the business
Securing the company’s continued viability and success
Providing stable and smooth management during the transition
Generating income for the retiring business owner. Read more about estate and business planning

Real Estate / Land Use

Commercial real estate and land use transactions can be some of the most complex transactions a business faces. Our attorneys are experienced in buying, selling, leasing, developing, and financing transactions in a variety of contexts, including:

Purchase and sale agreements
First lien mortgages
Construction loans
Easements
Retail and office leasing
Permitting and regulatory compliance
Brownfield redevelopment. Read more about Real Estate/Land Use

Employment

Our attorneys offer a broad range of legal, practical and tactical advice to meet our clients’ business objectives, to maximize the potential of their workforce, and minimize employment-related risks. Our services for both private and public employers include:

Personnel policies, human resource procedures, and benefit programs
Employment contracts, including executive compensation, retention, non-competition, non-solicitation, confidentiality, trade secret, and severance agreements
Reduction-in-force and other cost-cutting initiatives
Day-to-day strategic advice to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal laws governing the workplace. Read more about employment