Business Formation

Filing an LLC takes ten minutes online. Forming a business that survives a partner dispute, a divorce, an investor, or an exit takes actual lawyering. We form entities with the end in mind — because we spend the rest of our practice litigating the ones that weren't.

Done right at the start

• Entity selection: LLC, S-corp election, partnership, or corporation — driven by tax posture, owners, and exit plans.
• The real operating agreement: not a template — capital contributions, distributions, deadlock-breakers, buy-sell triggers (death, disability, divorce, departure), and valuation mechanics.
• Founder arrangements: vesting, roles, IP assignment, and what happens when someone stops showing up.
• Licenses, registrations, and clean records from day one.

The divorce-proofing nobody mentions

A co-owner's divorce can pull your company into someone else's family case. Buy-sell provisions and spousal joinders drafted at formation keep the business out of the marital crossfire — a protection this firm, uniquely, drafts from experience on both sides.