California Business Formation Attorney
We, at the Law Office of Lynnette Ariathurai, a Professional Corporation, located in Fremont, California, practice preventive law. We aim to protect your company through proper planning and preparing documents right the first time.
Contact us today, and we will carefully advise you regarding:
- Business formation and startup documents
- Forms of organization, including for-profits, non-profits, religious non-profits, professional corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, LLCs, etc.
- Partnership and shareholder agreements
- City, county and state licensing bureaus
- Contracts with clients, vendors and employees
- Commercial leases
We can also help you with any business structure changes you may need, including:
- Employment laws
- Compliance issues
- Buying and selling other businesses
- Dispute resolution for businesses
- Business dissolution
Our business formation documents are tailor-made to reflect the intentions of the principals. Not only do we draft the standard formation documents of articles, bylaws, minutes, shareholder agreements and buy-sell agreements, but we also take a comprehensive look at your business and ensure that you have all the government licenses and permits required to operate your business. These may involve reseller permits, city and county licenses and state professional licenses (doctors, lawyers, accountants, contractors, real estate brokers, etc.).
We are also adept when it comes to helping people who are looking at buying into a franchise. Additionally, our attorney Ariathurai routinely helps professionals who want to incorporate and start a business, such as doctors, lawyers, architects and accountants. We can even help you obtain Small Business Administration (SBA) loans by helping you correctly fill out and file the appropriately SBA documents timely and properly.
Our goals are to get your company started right, to anticipate and prevent the problems that typically arise down the road and to keep your company out of court. We will help you carefully evaluate your business plan for all domestic and international issues. Our goal is to help you figure out your long-term goals and then execute a legal plan that will help you achieve it.
The corporate documentation required for the formation of your business determines its future legal position. When all the planning, financing and personnel come together, the company is born. It experiences growth pains. Hopefully, it matures into a robust entity. Eventually, it "passes on" - through dissolution, sale, merger or some other means.
Wouldn't it be a shame if that hard-won corporate success were endangered because of a fundamental flaw at the formation stage? For example, in a "close corporation," what will happen to a shareholder's shares in the event of death or divorce? You find yourself dealing with heirs or ex-spouses as unwelcome fellow shareholders, perhaps with a majority stock position. Companies have been crippled by problems like these that could have been avoided with proper legal counsel. We can also help counsel you if you are thinking of joining with another business by researching that company's background and financial viability.
Other problems that may arise include:
- The lack of a well thought-out shareholders' agreement
- Failure to protect intellectual property rights
- Flawed licensing agreements
- Not understanding and filing yearly reporting and tax requirements properly
- Failure to establish an atmosphere that respects the rights and dignity of employees
- An "off the rack" partnership agreement that fails to anticipate potential pitfalls and does not take into account long term plans or unique promises each party made as a condition of entering into the partnership
You want to plan for a success. An important part of that planning is careful attention to the future legal ramifications of your initial documents. Let us help you from the start.
Contact the Law Office of Lynnette Ariathurai, a Professional Corporation, today. Let's plan for your company's future together.
Fremont, California, business and corporate attorney Lynnette Ariathurai represents Bay Area businesses in Alameda County, Santa Clara County and throughout Northern California in communities such as Fremont, Hayward, San Leandro, Castro Valley, Newark, Union City, Milpitas, Berkeley, Piedmont, San Lorenzo and San Ramon.