Building a successful business goes beyond just your product or service. Our team understands the complex legal landscape that businesses navigate. From choosing the optimal legal structure (corporation, LLC, partnership, etc.) to formalizing ownership agreements, we provide comprehensive counsel tailored to your unique needs. We act as your trusted legal partner, ensuring your business is on solid ground from the start. Our expertise extends beyond legal matters. We collaborate with a network of qualified professionals – accountants, tax advisors, and more – to provide a holistic approach that addresses all your business needs.

Entity Formation and Maintenance

The Firm assists clients with corporation formation, limited liability companies, general and limited partnerships, professional corporations, joint ventures, not-for-profits, and other types of business entities. In addition to forming the entity, our Firm can help you with related filings, permits, licenses, and other organizational issues. Post-formation, our Firm assists with preparing and updating minutes of the board of directors and shareholder meetings, LLC and partnership agreements and amendments, as well as other documentation and filings. When the use of a particular business entity has been concluded, our Firm prepares the necessary documentation to dissolve said business entity.

Content and Transactions

Our Firm assists clients with drafting, reviewing, and negotiating all types of contracts and business transactions, including stock and asset purchase agreements, purchase and sale of products and services, licensing agreements, employment agreements, buy-sell agreements, loan agreements, and other debt and security instruments.

Real Estate Entities

The Law Offices of Michael Balikian is experienced in establishing LLCs, limited partnerships, and other “pass-through” entities, to hold real estate for our corporate, real estate, and estate planning clients. Our attorneys work closely with other professionals in connection with coordinating and closing real estate purchase and sales, financing, refinancing, and 1031-exchange transactions, which often involve multiple areas of law and require an attorney with a general business background to manage the deal.