In today’s complex world, no individual lawyer can handle all the legal issues faced by businesses and their owners and managers. Yet these clients want one attorney—someone familiar with their business and its needs—to lead the right team in providing the best legal advice and handling the various transactions, disputes and other legal needs they encounter.

Reish & Reicher’s attorneys respond to this need by establishing general counsel relationships with business clients. Each of our senior attorneys has over 20 years of experience representing businesses. Each business client works with one of these senior lawyers, who serves as general counsel and is familiar with you, your business, and most importantly, your long-term objectives for yourself and your company.

Our business clients include closely-held, middle-market businesses with revenues of $5 million to $200 million in manufacturing, retail, advertising, real estate, financial services, media, entertainment and sports, technology, and professional service industries. They range from sole proprietorships, to closely-held corporations and LLCs, to businesses in need of complex domestic and international multi-tier entity structures. In addition, we represent and advise numerous early-stage growth companies as well as investment funds.

Our years of experience produce results that are responsive, practical, and cost-effective. Since many of our attorneys are also accountants or hold advanced tax degrees, we are constantly considering the implications of the complex tax rules, both domestic and international, which impact your operations.

The breadth of expertise in our firm provides you and your business with the full range of legal services. As necessary, your general counsel can draw upon one of our specialty practice groups, including corporate, tax, real estate, employment law and employee benefits, as well as experienced and practical litigators.

Our business attorneys assist clients with day-to-day business operations, specific transactions, and specialized advice. We review, negotiate and prepare contracts and agreements such as leases, loan transactions, distribution and marketing agreements, employment and consulting agreements, and other agreements that arise in the course of a business’s operation. We assist clients looking to acquire other strategic businesses or partners in evaluating, structuring, negotiating and documenting these transactions. Our business clients desiring additional capital can rely on our experience and expertise in handling financing transactions involving private investors, angel investors, venture capital and private equity funds, and the complex tax and securities laws issues they involve. For business clients seeking to sell or merge their business–whether in transactions with publicly-traded companies, other strategic buyers, or private equity funds–we assist throughout the process, from grooming the business to negotiating and closing the transaction.

Our business practice provides assistance to clients in the following areas:

Corporate

• Choice of entity analysis
• Formation of corporations, LLCs and partnerships
• Buy-sell agreements among shareholders, partners and LLC members
• Stock option, “phantom” and other deferred compensation plans
• Succession, exit strategy and liquidity planning
• Resolution of disputes between shareholders/partners
• Mergers, acquisitions, purchases and sales of businesses and business entities
• Private placements, venture capital and other equity financing
• Compliance with federal and state securities laws for non-public issuers
• Debt financing
• Foreign and international business entities
• Licensing, manufacturing, distribution and other general business contracts