OUR APPROACH
For complete, practical, sound, and cost-effective legal counsel, businesses need not look further than POTTER MINTON. On a daily basis, our business attorneys advise clients on a variety of issues. These attorneys have a wealth of experience at all stages of business development, from planning and initial formation through growth and expansion to disposition through sale or merger. To be effective in handling business matters, we become familiar with our clients' business objectives and procedures. This enables us to advise clients both in daily operations and in matters of impact.
When a transactional matter arises, we carefully evaluate the transaction to determine the most efficient and cost-effective way to staff the project. We draw upon various specialties within the firm to staff transactions with the minimum number of appropriately experienced lawyers necessary to complete the project in a timely manner. Our multi-disciplined teams include attorneys with expertise in the full range of corporate, finance and transactional legal services.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Our philosophy is to consistently achieve the results that our clients seek through effective, resourceful, efficient, and responsive representation. We practice law with the highest integrity and professionalism, and with a firm commitment to excellence. Within this framework, we strive to offer cost-effective, innovative, comprehensive, and practical advice and solutions.
OUR SERVICES
The Business Law practice area serves a wide range of clients with a vast array of comprehensive services. We represent both large and small clients from small startup companies to large publicly held businesses with multi-state and international operations. Collectively, our clients' activities include banking and financing services, insurance, manufacturing, transportation, technology, software development, wholesale and retail sales, distribution services, construction, real estate development and management, and natural resources development. POTTER MINTON undertakes a comprehensive range of service for these clients, from routine contract negotiation, preparation and review, and business formation to structuring and implementing mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, dissolutions, recapitalizations and other highly complex business transactions. We enlist attorneys from other departments, as necessary, to advise clients in areas such as employee benefits, labor and employment law, creditor's rights, land use and litigation.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Entity Selection and Formation
- Structuring Businesses and Transactions
- Negotiation, Drafting and Review of Contracts and Agreements
- Asset Acquisitions/Dispositions
- Mergers and Stock Transactions
- Financing
- Environmental Matters
- Labor and Employee Relations, including Collective Bargaining Agreements
- Real Estate Transactions, including Acquisition, Development, Construction, Leasing and Financing
- Employee Benefits
- Intellectual Property
- Trademarks and Service Marks
- Software Licensing
- Collections
- Buy-Sell Agreements
- Abatement
