Introduction
To better serve the unique needs of middle market and entrepreneurial businesses, Dykema has a practice area dedicated specifically to middle market business clients. The lawyers in Dykema’s Middle Market Business Counseling Practice are experienced business lawyers who understand the wide range of challenges middle market businesses face. We have expertise in all stages of the life cycle of a business, from its initial organization to its final disposition, whether through a public offering, sale, or transition to the next generation of leadership. We understand securities law, corporate law and commercial law, but more importantly, we understand business – particularly, middle market business.
Our clients include family-owned, emerging, and other privately-held businesses, as well as publicly-held companies that have no in-house counsel or need additional legal resources. Our clients are organized as corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies and joint ventures and span a variety of industries.
How we differ:
We have spent our careers working with middle market clients.
We listen to you. We invest time to get to know you and your business. We visit your facilities (at no cost to you) and learn your business goals and needs.
This allows us to understand your issues with a perspective of how those issues affect you and your business. We understand that you need to get to the central issues as quickly as possible and arrive at solutions with the lowest reasonable cost.
Services:
Our services include:
- Forming and structuring business entities and preparation and negotiation of shareholder agreements, buy-sell agreements, LLC operating agreements, and other control arrangements
- Debt and equity financings
- Preparation and negotiation of business contracts such as, consulting agreements, sales representative agreements, licensing and franchise agreements, distributorship and supply contracts, confidentiality agreements, non-compete agreements, brokerage agreements, service contracts and other and similar contracts
- Regulatory compliance and corporate governance
- Tax planning, estate planning and wealth management for businesses and owners
- Succession and exit planning
When you require specialized services, Dykema’s breadth and depth provides you with the resources to timely handle virtually any type of legal matter, including:
- Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic partnering
- Purchase, sale, lease and management of real estate
- Litigation
- Government policy
- Employment and compensation matters
- Intellectual property protection
- Securities law compliance
- International expansion and cross-border transactions
- Business combinations, restructurings, and breakups
Dykema’s attorneys in the Middle Market Business Counseling Practice stand ready to act as your trusted counselor and can help you with a specific project, act as an extension of your in-house counsel’s office, or act as your primary counsel. We have the experience and the expertise that produce timely, sound and practical advice.
For more information about our Middle Market Business Counseling Practice, please contact:
