Business Formation & Planning
Halverson Northwest provides experienced legal advice to local and regional businesses and their owners, helping clients choose the best form of entity to meet their legal needs. As an important first step, our attorneys can help new and experienced business owners devise and implement ownership and management structures that reflect the client’s business priorities.
Halverson Northwest has helped clients form, manage and operate almost all types of legal entities, including the following:
- All types of “for profit” corporations
- Nonprofit corporations
- Limited liability companies (LLCs)
- Partnerships (general, limited and limited liability partnerships)
- Professional service corporations and professional limited liability partnerships
- Trusts
After a business is formed and a proper entity is chosen, our attorneys will continue to provide business owners and their management teams planning or advice in a variety of areas. A few of the specific areas of law and services we can provide business owners are:
- Asset acquisitions
- Business purchases and sales
- Business succession and succession planning
- Civil litigation
- Contract drafting and review
- Entity management and operation
- Shareholder and buy-sell agreements
- Tax planning
Our firm has substantial experience to provide legal advice clients need when starting and operating a business in today’s complex business environment, from a single-purpose entity for a particular transaction, to the use of one of today’s more complex ownership and management structures needed to run a closely-held business for the long term.