Business/Corporate Transactions

Inman & Strickler provides comprehensive legal services to businesses of various industries, types and sizes, and in all phases of the business cycle. We routinely assist start-up companies with new business formations and entity choices, regularly advise our more-established business clients on all manners of general corporate, contractual and transactional matters. We also guide our clients through the process of selling or terminating their business when the time comes.

Business owners sometimes mistakenly believe that the assistance of an attorney is not necessary until such time as they are faced with a dispute or litigation or sale, but in the world of business transactions an ounce of prevention is truly worth a pound of cure.

At every business’ inception, owners are immediately faced with questions of how to structure the business (i.e. choice of legal entity, and the need for Shareholder or Operating Agreements among co-owners). Business owners also need to consider income tax consequences. If owners make the wrong choices, it could lead to expensive problems in the future. As the business evolves and grows, companies are regularly required to enter into relationships with various third parties such as vendors, customers, landlords, lenders, etc., all of which are governed by complex legal documents that dictate how the relationship will work, how any future disputes will be resolved, and even creating and preserving the future good will of the business. Participants in such transactions who are not properly advised by legal counsel often find themselves bound by unfavorable rules or results that were never previously considered.

Our attorneys have extensive experience in negotiating, reviewing, and drafting the various types of contracts and legal documentation that govern each business’ formation, financing, real estate needs, and customer/vendor/employee relations. That experience allows us to assist our clients in spotting and resolving the legal issues that need to be addressed, and to provide our clients with the necessary protection in advance.

The attorneys in our Business/Corporate practice department are all life-long residents of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia and have decades of combined experience assisting clients that range from the local “mom-and-pop” business to Fortune 500 companies. We are equipped to provide detailed and hands-on assistance for the less experience business owners, as well as more sophisticated corporate legal services for larger clients dealing with more complicated transactions, and we strive to do so in an efficient manner that typically is more cost-effective for our clients than larger law firms.

Please contact our firm immediately to meet with a skilled and experienced lawyer today. Our attorneys are always willing to help with your legal issue, no matter how big or how small.

Call us at: 757-486-7055 or email us at info@inmanstrickler.com