Business &Corporate Law
Coviello Weber & Dahill LLP represents startups, emerging companies, and mid-sized clients operating in a variety of industries with various legal issues arising in the conduct of business. Clients represented by the law firm's Business & Corporate Law team span many major industry segments, including technology (software, hardware, and mobile apps), small businesses, manufacturing, investment banking, health care, hospitality, real estate, insurance, construction, medical devices, cannabis, blockchain, sports and others.
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Business & Corporate Law Services
Business & Corporate Transactions. Attorneys in our business & corporate law group have decades of experience in contract drafting services, advising on the buy side and sell side transactions, including stock and asset sales and purchases, merger transactions, and other business combinations. While this experience includes larger transactions involving 8 or 9-figure amounts, we also routinely and efficiently represent smaller clients (often small, brick and mortar family-owned businesses) in the purchase or sale of businesses involving smaller dollar amounts. Our goal is to provide all of our clients, large and small, with sophisticated, value-added legal services at a fair cost, regardless of the size of the transaction.
Contract Drafting and Contract Review. Our attorneys frequently assist with the drafting and review of a variety of contracts encountered by our clients on a day-to-day basis, including, without limitation, sales agreements, application development agreements, non-disclosure agreements, joint venture agreements, and licensing agreements. In addition, we are often called upon to create bespoke agreements with specific terms and conditions that are unique to our client’s business or the business deal they are trying to consummate.
Partnership Disputes & "Business Divorce" Matters. One of the defining characteristics of CWD is the multi-disciplinary approach and skill set of our attorneys. Our transactional and dispute resolution attorneys regularly collaborate on a variety of shareholder and partnership disputes, having represented both individuals and businesses in matters including the issuance or response to books and records demands (under New York and Delaware law), buy-out demands, terminations for cause, minority shareholder freeze-out situations, and myriad other specific situations that require both an analysis of rights and obligations under the law and governing corporate and transactional documents and an evaluation of the merits of associated claims and defenses. While such matters are often resolved without litigation, we view "business divorces" as the ultimate "hybrid" matter where our transactional and dispute resolution attorneys work hand in hand toward a commercial resolution where possible but prepare, from day one, to litigate if necessary.
Employment and Consulting Agreements. Our attorneys regularly represent employers and employees in the negotiation of employment and consulting agreements from "rank and file" employment agreements to more complex executive employment agreements, which typically include other contractual arrangements as part of an executive employment package (e.g., stock option grants, etc.).
Capital Raising Transactions. Our attorneys have represented issuers, placement agents, and accredited investors (individuals, family offices, etc.) in a variety of private placement transactions, including transactions exempt from registration under Regulation D, PIPEs transactions, and others. Such matters typically involve drafting private placement memoranda, investor packages, subscription agreements, investor questionnaires, and other documents as may be necessary depending on the terms of the transaction. Such matters have ranged from assisting clients in seed round investments to representing more mature clients in much more significant capital raises.
Commercial Lending. The Firm has represented both lenders and borrowers in connection with commercial loan transactions, whether secured or unsecured, lines of credit, and other lending transactions.
Emerging Company Representation. Our attorneys have represented the US and international emerging companies and founders in a variety of industries, including, without limitation, technology, mobile app development, manufacturing, biotechnology, med-tech, food and beverage, healthcare, cybersecurity, insurance, finance, and others. CWD offers our emerging company clients "cradle to exit" services, which include assisting with entity selection and structural advice at formation, advising on executive compensation, drafting stock/equity incentive plans, STIPs and LTIPs, drafting employment handbooks and other HR policies, providing guidance on asset protection and introducing clients to IP specialists as needed, negotiating leases and other types of contracts that start-ups are typically presented with. In addition to the negotiation and drafting of typical start-up documents, our attorneys also provide our clients with invaluable business advice and guidance gained during our years of representing clients in this space.
Outside General Counsel Services. CWD provides its start-up, small, and middle market clients with broad-based general corporate legal services similar to the type of services often provided by in-house corporate legal departments at a lower cost and with a greater diversity of expertise. When serving in this role, CWD attorneys become part of the client’s team, allowing CWD to provide value-added, business-savvy legal advice with a vested interest in helping our clients succeed. When engaged to provide general corporate legal services, our attorneys have frequent, substantive contact with our clients, which gives our attorneys a unique and intimate familiarity with our client's business operations. This operational knowledge allows our team to better serve clients by routinely providing innovative, practical, and cost-efficient legal services along with advice on related business issues arising during the course of such legal representation.
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For additional information regarding our Business & Corporate Law Group, please contact:
Paul R. Weber, Partner
Gerald Coviello, Partner