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Business Services

The lawyers of Deeb Blum Murphy Frishberg & Markovich routinely provide advice on structuring businesses, including choosing the type of legal entity that will operate the business, forming the entity and structuring the ownership, control and management of the enterprise. The Firm regularly assists clients in preparing and negotiating shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, limited liability company operating agreements and similar documents. In addition, the Firm's experience encompasses planning for the retirement and/or death of controlling shareholders and the transfer of ownership and operational control to either a new set of owners or the next generation of family members. By creating and structuring stock purchase, stock option, phantom stock and employee stock ownership plans, the Firm's lawyers assist business owners to more closely align the interests of their management teams with the interests of the owners themselves.

Regardless of the industry a business is in, good corporate governance is protection against risk to the individual owners, directors and officers of the business, and risk to the business entity itself. The lawyers at Deeb Blum Murphy Frishberg & Markovich help ensure that an organization's management is structured appropriately and that the procedural safeguards and legal formalities are followed in order to minimize risks and enhance organizational effectiveness.

The purchase or sale of a privately held business poses many challenges and traps for the unwary. The experienced lawyers of Deeb Blum Murphy Frishberg & Markovich routinely assist clients in structuring and negotiating purchases and sales of privately held businesses. In helping our clients grow, the Firm has developed extensive experience in commercial loan transactions, including the structuring, negotiation and documentation of term and revolving credit facilities, working capital loans, acquisition loans, and construction loans. The Firm's tax advisory practice consists of analyzing and structuring a variety of sophisticated tax planning transactions in connection with the acquisitions, buyouts, bankruptcy reorganization, financing executive compensation plans, as well as handling contested tax matters before the Internal Revenue Service or state taxing authorities.

The most valuable asset of a business might be its technology, know-how and customer lists. The Firm's lawyers can help protect this valuable information from misappropriation by preparing, and, when needed, enforcing, confidentiality agreements, non-competition agreements, non-solicitation agreements, and similar agreements relating to proprietary or trade secret information.

Our Business Services Attorneys:

• Stephen H. Frishberg
• Mark N. Suprenant