Corporate

We help nurture, expand and protect businesses.  From governance, financing, and transactional counsel to tax and restructuring services, we take care of their legal needs so our clients can focus on what they do best – taking care of business.

Our clients are leaders and innovators in the healthcare, retail, technology, hospitality, energy, real estate, and public sectors. We assist them in all manner of business transactions, including capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, financings, conversions and restructurings and strategic alliances/joint ventures.

Legal advice is but one of dozens of factors involved in a company’s day-to-day strategic decisions; however, the right legal counsel can also be a critical competitive advantage. Clients benefit from our holistic approach to transactions as well as our close collaboration with our real estate, intellectual property, health law, employment and pensions, benefits & investments colleagues. Together, we’re helping solve the complex business issues that enable clients to reach their goals.

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Corporate Conversations

Nossaman's Corporate Conversations, a limited podcast series, will offer practical guidance on the intersection of core business and legal issues. Aimed at entrepreneurs, in-house counsel and business owners, this series will cover essentials such as business formation, contract drafting, dispute resolution and day-to-day legal risk management. Each episode will break down complex legal concepts into actionable insights, helping listeners to make informed decisions and build and protect legally sound businesses.

Episode One: Corporate Divorce – Preventing and Managing the Break-Up of a Business Partnership

In this episode, Kimberly Kamkar is joined by corporate law partners Patrick Richard, Anna Tang and Doug Schwartz to explore the complexities of business "break-ups." They discuss essential practices for future planning, the importance of having well-drafted agreements such as shareholder or partnership agreements, and various dispute resolution mechanisms. They emphasize the role of mediation, arbitration and careful partner selections to manage disputes effectively. Asset division, non-compete provisions and strategies to protect business interests post-separation are also discussed. This episode, the first in a new series focusing on corporations, is intended to provide insightful guidance for business owners to plan in advance in order to minimize conflict, costs and complications.