Business and Corporate

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We provide general and specialized services including entity formation, securities, regulatory compliance, shareholder agreements, business tax planning and exit and succession strategies.

At McKenna Brink Signorotti LLP, we represent both established and emerging businesses.  Experienced entrepreneurs ourselves, we understand the concerns and legal demands businesses tend to confront. We furnish personalized legal guidance designed to meet our clients’ unique sets of needs and desired outcomes. 

As a result, a wide range of business leaders and companies in Northern California rely on McKenna Brink Signorotti LLP for advice and assistance in understanding and addressing the following legal and business challenges:

  • Entity formations and dissolutions for corporations, limited liability companies, nonprofits, professional organizations, foreign entities, and franchises;

  • Franchise representation, representing both franchisors and franchisees;

  • Entity Restructuring, including stock sales, asset sales, IRC 338(h)(10) election stock/asset sales, mergers and acquisitions, and reorganizations, including tax-free asset spin-offs under IRC 355 and 368;

  • Business tax planning;

  • Equity raising, including private debt and equity offerings, mergers, acquisitions, and negotiation and documentation of joint ventures, strategic alliances and corporate partnerships;

  • Executive compensation, including employment agreements, stock options and phantom stock plans;

  • Facility lease or purchase, negotiation and documentation;

  • General business counsel, including negotiating vendor contracts and non-disclosure agreements;

  • Corporate governance, including member, shareholder and director board meetings;

  • Shareholder agreements, including buy-sell agreements and voting arrangements;

  • Business Licensing and Certifications, including with the Contractor’s State License Board and for Women Owned Businesses, Minority Owned Businesses and Disabled Veteran Business Entities;

  • Business succession and exit strategies, including closely-held and other businesses; and

  • Business related litigation.

Reach out to us today to talk with Ericka L. McKenna, the head of our Business and Corporate group.