Practice Areas

Our business clients encounter issues across all of our practice areas, and we have experts on nearly every issue whom we’re able to tap for quick answers to tough questions on a daily basis. We help clients across industries and throughout Michigan seize opportunities and deal with challenges they face in their businesses. From entity formation to contract negotiations, transactions to corporate governance, we serve the full range of clients’ business and commercial needs.

Commercial Dispute

We help clients navigate business disputes to successful outcomes. While litigation distracts from objectives and drains resources, our litigators draw on their experience and knowledge to execute strategies that make the best of difficult situations.

Our team is skilled and experienced in representing businesses and individuals in disputes arising out of business contracts, including:

• Supply Agreements
• General Terms and Conditions
• Business Purchase Agreements
• Lease Agreements
• Construction Contracts

Business Law

We assist with your start-up business, further business growth, minimize risks and maximize opportunities. Our experience includes business formation, corporate governance, contract review, dispute resolution and taxation. We also have expertise in the full range of transactional work, including purchase and sale of businesses, joint ventures and dissolution. 

We regularly review and draft a variety of contracts for our clients, including:

• Asset and stock purchase agreements
• Confidentiality agreements
• Limited liability company operating agreements
• Partnership agreements
• Lease agreements
• Vendor trust agreements
• Contracts involving international parties

Corporate Formation/Relocation

We help Korean companies to enter and thrive in competitive and highly regulated markets within the United States.

General Counsel

For a business to have sustained success, trustworthy legal direction is essential. We serve the role of general counsel for many small and mid-size businesses and associations whose present business model doesn’t support a full-time in-house lawyer.

As the legal advisor to the management team, we offer proactive strategies that minimize risk, counsel on matters of corporate governance as well as regulatory issues and develop creative solutions when problems arise. We are able to tap other legal issue experts as the situations require, which expedites our response and often reduces the cost to the client. 

Some of the matters we routinely handle when serving as general counsel include:

• Entity selection, formation and organization planning
• Drafting start-up documentation
• Complying with regulatory requirements and federal and state laws
• Ownership structure
• Establishing corporate records
• Real estate transactions, commercial leases and construction issues
• Taxation
• Operating agreements
• Corporate bylaws
• Commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions including asset or stock acquisitions or sales

Commercial Real Estate Investment

We represent clients in all phases of the real property ownership cycle, from pre-purchase to purchase, construction or remodeling, ongoing management, and eventual disposition, which includes reviewing and drafting purchase and sale agreements, conducting due diligence, and leasing.

Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory investigations and enforcement can cripple your business, tie your team up in document requests, dampen productivity, and damage your reputation — and that’s all before the costs and risks of litigation enter the picture. The best defense is a good offense, taking a proactive approach to compliance by implementing systems and processes that minimize risk and exposure. 

Our team works across a number of sectors to help clients meet regulatory compliance obligations, such as labor law, Michigan Liquor Control Commission (MLCC), government contracts, and insurance, among others.