We address most legal needs of small and growing
enterprises:
We negotiate, draft, and enforce business agreements. As former
business executives, our attorneys advise clients on how they may
best achieve their objectives. Representative experience includes:
- Employment agreements
- Real estate transactions, including construction,
leasing, and purchase agreements
- Technology licenses and assignments
- Joint ventures
- Design and development agreements, including
software, hardware, games, and graphic design
- Services including maintenance, support,
warranty, consulting, advertising, marketing, public relations,
and staffing
- Import, export, sales, and distribution
- Online contracts including sales, website
terms and conditions, privacy policies, downloads, gaming, managing
online communities, bulletin boards, and content distribution
The Firm leads clients through all aspects of managing and operating
private companies:
- Pre-formation planning and advice
- Formation (California and Delaware for-profit
corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships)
- Corporate governance, including shareholder
and board actions, meetings, founder agreements, and resolving
the duties of officers and board members
- Nonprofit corporations
- Wills, trusts, estates
- Stock issuance, option plans, compensation
for employees and officers
- Business licenses and permits
- “Friends and family” investor
and shareholder agreements
- Venture and institutional finance
- Other private placements
- Secured and unsecured debt
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Bankruptcy, restructuring, workouts, and
dissolution
Specialties include filing, licensing, and in most cases litigating
the following:
- Patents (including electronic, mechanical,
computer hardware, software, bioinformatics, and business methods)
- Copyrights in artistic and literary works,
music, film and video, computer software, databases, games, and
electronic media
- Trademarks and service marks
- Trade secrets, including nondisclosure,
noncompetition and similar agreements
- The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and
other recent statutes
- Management and distribution of rights in
music, films, literary and electronic works, on behalf of publishers,
artists, authors, labels, producers, distributors, agents, website
owners, studios, and others.
We provide expert plaintiff and defense
counsel in the state and federal courts of California. Representative
cases include:
- Breach of contract
- Collections actions
- Employment disputes
- Business torts including false advertising,
unfair business practices, fraud, and interference with contract
- Copyright, trademark and trade secret infringement
- Computer torts and crimes
- Insurance claims and bad faith denials
- General civil litigation
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