If your business requires specialized legal services for a business deal, or outside counsel well-versed in corporate transactions, our boutique law firm provides the legal advice, counsel, and documentation services you need. We routinely represent both individuals and businesses in business deals and corporate transactions, typically in the lower and middle markets.
Our clients include entrepreneurs, executives, private equity, and private investors dealing with corporate and transactional issues for start-ups, family-owned businesses, and other established small to mid-size businesses. Our Philadelphia corporate transactional lawyers can provide efficient legal services aligned with your business interests, whether you need assistance negotiating a complex, multi-party corporate restructuring or sale of a business or a more mundane commercial contract.
Our lawyers provide legal services to companies generally located in the Northeastern United States; predominantly in the Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey areas, although we also represent businesses across the country and even work internationally. Our clients are in diverse industries ranging from professional services, (medical practices, dental practices, accounting firms, wealth managers, insurance agencies, etc.), to industrial to mining (both raw materials and digital), to manufacturing and distribution, to real estate and development, food processing and distribution, and other low tech and high-tech businesses.
The Philadelphia based law firm of Jacobs Law Group has lawyers with significant experience in many different types of corporate and business transactions from the simplest entity selection and formation to drafting operating agreements, to adding shareholders and partners to selling, buying and recapitalizing businesses.
If you are starting a business, expanding your business, or getting ready to sell, we have years of experience to help guide you. We regularly provide guidance in the complex areas of corporate law and business issues to businesses and business owners (shareholders, partners, LLC Members, etc.), including in commercial lending and secured transactions, leasing, private placements, corporate governance, contract matters, labor and employment, and all manner of business contracts.
Our experienced Philadelphia based business, corporate and real estate transactional attorneys advise clients ranging from small local businesses, start-ups privately owned, and family-owned companies, to larger regional, national and even international entities including private equity investors and companies on structuring and closing business transactions. We assist in negotiating, structuring, documenting, and closing your deals. We have the ability to prepare all necessary documentation to close your business transaction.
Samples of our transactions:
At the Jacobs Law Group recently even during the pandemic, we handled sales of interests in many companies some minority stakes, others for the whole company. By way of dollar volume, as examples only: $1 + Million in information technology services, $3 +Million (professional services), $37 Million (health care) to $50 + Million (financial services).
We have experience in representing borrowers and lenders in loan and financing transactions. With such transactions ranging on the low end from sub $1 Million, to $10 +Million, to even higher. With collateral ranging from hard assets (equipment, machinery, furniture and fixtures, inventory, etc.) to intellectual property, to real estate, to pledges of equity interests and other even more exotic collateral. We have worked on financings in multiple industries ranging from real-estate to restaurants, to food service, to industrial, to high technology, etc.
And in business transactions, we document many different transactions involving the supply and/or sale of goods and services, the exchange and/or transfer of information, the issuance of shares, the creation of shareholder and LLC Operating Agreements, the grant of options, restructuring of corporate entities and ownership interests, etc.
The corporate transactional lawyers at our Philadelphia office are adept at recognizing areas of legal, financial, and regulatory vulnerability in business agreements. In consultation with the client, we could work to minimize potential risks while pursuing their unique business goals.
Carefully drafted agreements reduce your risk of disputes and expensive litigation. Although some degree of risk exposure is inevitable in business transactions, our diligent attorneys work to ensure the client understands and accepts the specific risks before entering the agreement.
The Jacobs Law Group regularly calls on a team of subject matter experts in relevant disciplines to work to ensure both attorney and client have a comprehensive understanding of the implications of the contemplated business transaction; including in tax matters, business valuation, intellectual property and other areas.
We also have the ability to act as an independent general counsel to companies and families, missing that important skill set.
Whether your business is brand new or well-established, the services of a skilled attorney are invaluable. Our boutique business law firm is here to provide specialized support for complex transactions and advise on various issues that might affect your company.
Our Corporate Practice counsels our privately held and middle market clients in the most significant aspects of business operations. From business planning to day-to-day operations and complex transactions we are a one-stop solution for today’s middle market and emerging growth companies.
There is no substitute for the skill and insight of our Philadelphia corporate transactional lawyers. Call the Jacobs Law Group today to schedule an appointment with a savvy legal professional. If you have a business need to negotiate, document and close on a business deal, the corporate and transactional lawyers at the Jacobs Law Group stand ready to assist you and will work to achieve your goals and close your deal.
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