Business Law

Kennedy Luce provides a wide range of business law services, all aimed at helping your company grow and maintain continued excellence and success.

Regardless of industry, we can represent you, as we have experience representing a wide range of businesses across numerous fields. From start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures to established, long-standing businesses, we provide legal services. Additionally, we understand that new and early-stage businesses have different needs than our larger, established clients, and we will tailor our services accordingly.

Aside from our business law practice, Kennedy Luce serves as “outside general counsel” to a wide range of businesses that lack dedicated legal staff. In this role, our firm takes a hands-on approach, maintaining constant contact with company leadership and leveraging our experience and knowledge to support the company effectively and efficiently.

Kennedy Luce also facilitates the hiring of law firms that may be required in a specific transaction that we ourselves do not handle. For example, if a business we represent is involved in securities or labor litigation, we will assist in retaining a firm that specializes in these areas and aligns with our firm's beliefs and our clients' expectations.

Finally, we understand questions or concerns about legal fees and, as such, offer a variety of fee arrangements for business clients, including deferred payments and monthly retainers.

PRIMARY AREAS WE HANDLE

Formation of Companies

UCC Filings

Shareholder Agreements

Mergers & Acquisitions

Dissolutions

Joint Ventures

Intellectual Property including trademark & copyrights

Succession Planning

Franchising

Real Estate

Multi-State Expansion

Contract Negotiations

Real Estate

Multi-State Expansion

 

OUTSIDE GENERAL COUNSEL

In conjunction with our business law practice, Kennedy Luce serves the role of "outside general counsel" for a number of businesses who do not have their own legal staff. This entails a hands-on approach, with constant contact with the company’s management. Fees are billed hourly, monthly fee, or, in certain start-up circumstances, with equity in the company.

RECENT REPRESENTATIVE WORK

Advised numerous start-up internet ventures regarding formation, financing and operation.

Negotiated an exclusive license agreement with between our client and a European energy company.

Assisted numerous start-up company in preparation of a Private Placement Memorandum and successful raising of its seed round of financing.

Represented a group of doctors in the sale of their New York City based medical practice.

Represented an entrepreneur in the sale of intellectual property assets in excess of several million dollars.

Represented a technology start-up in $7,000,000 round of angel investor funding.

Represented retail company in sale of assets to a third party for $13,000,000.00.