As Your Business Grows

While start-ups and emerging businesses may not have the resources of established companies, they still face many of the same legal challenges. Budge Law Offices provides strategic business planning and legal advice to help emerging businesses develop into successful companies.  We assist start-ups and emerging businesses with effective and strategic planning to help develop the strength and core of their business and to help prevent unnecessary business litigation.

Some of the legal services we provide emerging businesses include:

• General business counseling and advice
• Providing advice and direction on hiring employees or using independent contractors
• Drafting and negotiating the purchase or sale of a business
• Working with business owners in developing their ownership structure, including buy-sell agreements
• Drafting basic form agreements for use in your business
• Establishing a board of directors, providing advice on how to run board or shareholder meetings and how to keep a written record of such meetings
• Conducting a legal check or an audit of legal matters affecting your business
• Finding and working with investors
• Counseling to protect trade secrets, copyright, trademarks, patents and inventions