The corporate practice group provides counseling to business clients, including proprietorships, closely-held entities, publicly-traded corporations and not-for-profit entities.
We provide a full range of legal services for entrepreneurs with seasoned advice regarding entity selection, transaction approach, litigation alternatives and tax implications. Our attorneys serve as outside General Counsel and ad hoc counsel for businesses and not-for-profit organizations.
The Couch White corporate practice group combines strategic planning and litigation services with transaction negotiations and implementation in order to attain our clients’ business objectives. Organizational structure and governance, transactional choices and dispute resolution methods and ramifications are assessed from strategic and tactical perspectives. We advise business entities, their officers, directors and committees regarding rights, responsibilities and litigation.
At Couch White, we measure our actions by the highest standards of ethics. Our corporate attorneys recognize and pursue timely and cost-effective solutions to business problems that meet clients’ immediate needs and foster long-term success. Our business planning expertise includes identification and implementation of beneficial structural revisions and succession planning for closely-held and public corporate entities. As appropriate, we integrate inter-disciplinary expertise from outside consultants in order to furnish a team that is ready to assist clients in attaining their goals in the most prudent and efficient manner possible.
Representative Services - Corporate
- Antitrust/Distribution Counseling
- Asset Purchase Transactions
- Compensation and Benefits
- Conflict of Interest
- Contract Preparation, Negotiation and Review
- Corporate and Project Finance
- Corporate Control Litigation
- Corporate Opportunity Disputes
- Corporate Policies and Procedures
- Director and Officer Duties/Insurance
- Entity Selection, Formation and Dissolution
- Executive Compensation
- General Counsel
- Governance/Control/Strategy
- Internal Investigations
- Joint Ventures
- Membership Interest Transactions
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Not-For-Profit Corporations
- Reporting and Compliance
- Restrictive Covenants (non-competition/non-solicitation)
- Separation Agreements/General Release
- Shareholder Rights, Obligations and Oppression
- Stock Purchase Transactions
- Succession Planning
- Takeover Tactics and Defenses
- Taxation
- Unfair Competition
- Valuation
- Whistleblower
Other Locations
110 William Street
Suite 1410
New York NY 10038
p: 212-513-7144
f: 212-226-7554
601 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington DC 20004
p: 202-638-6949
f: 202-638-6951
406 Farmington Avenue
Farmington CT 06032
p: 860-676-7740
f: 860-676-7704
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