Corporations, Partnerships and LLC's

Temeles & Temeles can assist you in all phases of your business enterprise - from startup to sale or dissolution. We counsel business owners and entities with respect to:

• Business Formation, Reorganization & Succession
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Shareholder, Partner and Member Agreements & Litigation
• Employment & Contractor Agreements
• Non-competition Drafting and Enforcement
• Incentive Planning

Representative Transactions:

• Counseled founders through tax, business and state law issues involved in choice of entity analysis;
• Drafted LLC, partnership and corporate organizational documents such as articles, bylaws and minutes;
• Negotiated and drafted stockholders' agreements, operating agreements, non-competition agreements, buy-sell agreements, employment agreements, consulting agreements and qualified and non-qualified stock option plans;
• Negotiated mergers and acquisitions of software developers, application service providers, multimedia firms, accounting firms, automobile dealerships, refrigerated and long-haul trucking companies, hardware stores, pharmacies, dental and medical practices, restaurants and retail furniture stores;
• Completed financing documentation including subscription agreements, term sheets, certificates of designation, notes, convertible notes, deeds of trust, escrow agreements, security agreements and financing statements;
• Negotiated and closed commercial real estate acquisitions, sales, tax-free exchanges, leases, easements and zoning modifications; and
• Orchestrated corporate reorganization of $6,000,000 in debt outside of bankruptcy for company with more than 60 creditors
• Counseled employers in structuring and enforcing appropriate competitive restrictions.
• Counseled employees in negotiating terminations and narrowing scope of non-compete restrictions.
• Counseled employees and employers in defeating actions by former employers to enforce non-compete provisions.