Brown McCarroll Attorneys at Law

Your goals and objectives are unique. You may be creating a new market, launching an innovative technology or filling a service or product gap. On the personal side, you may be interested in starting multiple businesses, growing a business to sell it off or maintaining profitability over the long-term to leave a healthy business for your heirs. Our attorneys take the time to understand your goals upfront so we can offer better advice and help you analyze options, weigh risks, and plan for the future.

Start-Ups to Mid-Sized Companies

We help privately-held companies of all sizes, from start-ups to mid-sized companies across almost every industry, including technology, retail, health care, financial services, construction, manufacturing, real estate, and energy.

Cost-Effective Services

Brown McCarroll has attorneys with experience in almost all of the areas critical to owners and executives of privately-held companies. As a result, you do not have to continually vet new attorneys, get them up to speed and manage various law firm relationships, which can be time-consuming and costly.

While we can certainly work with you on a single project, many of our clients turn to us for a long-term partnership where we offer strategic advice and help them streamline their legal work.

The range of legal services we offer privately-held companies includes:

Entity Formation

Choosing the right business structure is the foundation of good business planning. Our attorneys help clients understand the liability protections, tax implications and other benefits of the various entity structures and recommend the one that best fits your growth and financing needs while maximizing tax advantages.

We can also help you implement the appropriate management and organizational structure and develop the right compensation and benefit plans to keep your company competitive. 

Management and Operational Legal Concerns

There are numerous management and operational challenges that can cost privately-held companies. Our attorneys help you protect your business in areas such as:

• Intellectual property – protect your brand, your innovations and trade secrets
• Contracts – draft and negotiate agreements that minimize risks
• Real estate – secure office space through leasing or real estate purchase agreements that are structured to help avoid problems and protect your interests
• Tax – create strategies that give you the most favorable tax treatment

Legal Disputes

Legal disputes can be a major concern for any privately-held company. We help you avoid the problems that can lead to lawsuits, and vigorously represent your interests in negotiation and at trial. Some of the types of disputes common to privately-held companies include:

• Partnership disputes
• Contract and service agreement disputes
• Breach of a non-compete agreement
• Theft of trade secrets
• Unwitting labor law violations

Protection of Wealth

Owners of privately-held companies have unique personal legal needs. We help you manage and protect your accumulated wealth through effective estate planning and business succession solutions that maximize financial benefits while minimizing taxes. Our estate planning attorneys handle the necessary issues of control with tact and sensitivity when these considerations span several generations, or are made more complex by divorce and remarriage.

For more information on our various areas of practice, please visit corporate & securities, tax, real estate, commercial litigation, intellectual property, and estate planning & probate.