Services
The firm provides services in the following general areas of corporate law and related areas. For more detailed information click on the links or pictures below to take you to specific service area pages.
The day-to-day revenue and expense-related legal agreements are customer and supplier contracts. The firm has significant experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts with customers, subcontracts with suppliers, simple procurements, and services agreements with vendors, including IT, Legal, Accounting, Tax, Consulting and other services.
Contracts
From company formation through dissolution, CoCounsel can help with each step in the company lifecycle. Important areas include choice of a legal entity for your business, formation of the legal entity and preparation of its organizational documents, structuring of the company's corporate governance, and maintenance of the legal entity, including regulatory compliance and preparation of routine approvals, minutes and other corporate documents. The Firm can advise on questions of corporate law, including fiduciary duties of management, the board and its stockholders, conflicts of interest and other issues.
Corporate Law and Governance
Corporate Transactions
Perhaps the most company-critical events are corporate transactions - mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing and investment transactions and similar matters. The Firm can advise on the purchase and sale of businesses, business assets and lines of business; structure joint ventures and other transactions with business partners; help review and negotiate venture capital and other equity investments in the company; and handle various forms of financing transactions, including bank credit facilities and issuances of debt securities.
Employment Matters
Intellectual Property
As a company employee, you may often be asked to sign an agreement with the company,. This may take the form of an employment agreement, an equity award or option agreement, a change in control or retention agreement or a severance agreement and waiver of claims. The firm can help review these agreements and identify any traps, both with respect to your rights and any negative tax implications, and then negotiate with your company if needed. Non-disclosure, non-compete, and non-solicit agreements and provisions are also areas of importance for executives and other employees, and the firm has significant experience with these matters as well.
The firm can provide advice on copyrights or trademarks for your intellectual property and whether to register such IP. The firm does not seek patent protection through the US Patent and Trademark Office but can help with patent protection strategies. The firm also has significant experience with IP licensing transacations.