Law Firm Overview

How We Can Help You

Customer/Vendor Contracts and Relationships

Have you experienced friction with customers or vendors over payment issues or unanticipated events?  We regularly assist clients with managing the legal aspects of their relationships with customers and vendors.  This may include helping them create best practices for sales models, risk management and documentation in connection with sales and purchase transactions and incorporating those practices into form agreements for customers and vendors.  It may also include reviewing and negotiating agreements with key customers and vendors, structuring payment and security arrangements for past due accounts and resolving disputes with customers and vendors.

Corporate Finance

Do you need guidance with respect to financing your business?  We have a broad breadth of experience with the variety of financing vehicles to fund businesses at all of the various stages of their growth, including traditional loan financing, private placements, venture capital and angel funding, mezzanine financing and public offerings.  We often play an important role for clients in securing, negotiating and structuring financing for its growth and can provide creative structuring solutions to facilitate a transaction. 

            Sales and Acquisitions

Are you considering a business sale or purchase and are concerned about the risks of doing so?  The process of buying or selling a business is highly complex.  We have helped parties buy or sell countless businesses.  As a result of this experience, we are able to offer clients a sophisticated set of skills to guide them through that process.  Those skills include the skills of deft negotiation, a comfort and facility with accounting and other financial tools, leadership skills and an ability to manage and track a large volume of details. 

            Joint Ventures/Strategic Partnerships

            Do you see the value of a business relationship with another person or company, but are unclear on how to bring it to reality.  Strategic partnerships and joint ventures are generally highly challenging to structure, because the business relationships are generally unique.  As such, there is generally no established model or form to follow and the structure of the relationships and the documentation for that structure typically must be custom made.  We are able to draw on a breadth of business and legal experience that includes a sophisticated understanding of business entities, capital structures and financing, accounting, tax and business valuation to assist clients to create structures which help turn warm personal relationships into productive business relationships. 

Real Estate Transactions

Do you need assistance in connection with buying, selling or developing real estate.  Our transactional experience includes assisting clients with buying and selling various kinds of properties, including warehouses, office buildings and commercial condominiums.  As part of assisting clients with purchasing and developing real estate, we have assisted them with their various financing needs. 

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Foreclosure & Alternatives, Lending & Secured Transactions, Loan Workouts, Reorganizations & Restructuring, Contracts, International Transactions, Joint Ventures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Secured Transactions, Transactions, Uniform Commercial Code, Business Organizations, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Formation & Business Planning, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Employment Contracts -- Employee, Employment Contracts -- Employer, Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate Law