Philadelphia Area Business Attorney
When operating a small or mid-sized company, it is important to have experienced legal advice and representation. Organizations such as small family businesses and privately held companies seldom have an attorney on staff and need to identify a firm that can meet their legal needs. Large companies can also benefit when they have available outside counsel with particular expertise.
At the Law Offices of Maribeth Blessing, LLC, our Philadelphia Area business and commercial law attorney, Glenn C. Romano, has more than 20 years of experience providing legal advocacy and counsel to businesses in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area. Our firm serves a variety of business needs from start-ups to long established businesses. We represent a wide variety of businesses from real estate investment and management companies, to banks, florists, plumbing and electrical contractors; machine shops, movers, beauticians, production companies, record labels, repair shops, e-commerce retailers, clothing designers, and printers. This list is just an example of the variety of businesses we serve.
While there is always something new and challenging, the following is a list of the typical services provided through our Business Law Area:
- Business Formation and Dissolution
- Corporations
- Limited Liability Companies
- Limited Liability Partnerships
- General or Limited Partnerships
- Sole Proprietorships
- Professional Corporations
- Non-Profits and Charitable Organizations
- Business Sales and Acquisitions
- Franchises
- Fictitious Names
- Trademarks and Copyrights
- Trade Secrets
- Employment Law
- Regulatory Compliance
- Litigation
- State and Local Taxes
For Business Start-ups
We offer affordable, flat rate, start-up packages. For one fee we complete the entire start-up process through state registration and prepare all start-up documents including: articles of incorporation, organizational minutes, and by-laws, shareholder agreements certificates of organization (for LLCs) operating agreements, partnership agreements. We also assist your with obtaining your federal EIN (Employer Identification Number) and place all required legal notices. We also order and complete your business "kit" including minute book, corporate or business seal and share or member certificates, and issue shares.
More importantly, we provide essential advice to help you determine the best form of business entity for your enterprise. Pennsylvania offers a variety of business entities from which to choose. Often the decision is based on a balance between tax efficiency and personal liability protection.
For Existing Businesses
We provide basic services to ensure legal maintenance of the business entity. We ensure that the business keeps historical and current minutes of annual and special meetings and resolutions, that all vacant positions on the board of directors or of officers are promptly filled, and that any changes in the business structure or form, or in the number of shareholders or partners is properly documented and reported. We also assist with corporate governance matters and help resolve disputes between directors and/or shareholders.
Please contact us for a consultation.
Contracts
Our goal in any business transaction is to protect our clients from unacceptable risk. We perform strategic analysis and planning to prevent litigation and help ensure legal maintenance of the business entity.
Our experience has given us the skills necessary to analyze, draft and negotiate contracts and agreements in a manner that both protects our clients and gets the job done so that the parties can move forward. The same skills help to identify hidden risks and possible fraud which protect the client from moving forward in a bad transaction. We also provide commercial litigation services should it become necessary to commence a civil action on a contract.
Because contracts and agreements from the basis for all business transactions, our contracts area covers a wide variety of industries, enterprises, and business activities. In particular, we have established an entertainment law practice in the music and independent film industries.
We can also assist in the protection of your company's intangible assets/intellectual property, such as trademarks, trade secrets and copyrights.
Commercial Litigation
Our commercial litigation practice involves business, commercial and corporate disputes in the Courts of Common Pleas and District Courts (including Philadelphia Municipal Court) in Philadelphia and surrounding Pennsylvania Counties. We are also licensed and have practiced in the United States Court of Appeals (Third Circuit) and United States Federal District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. We will also consider personal injury defense cases on a case-by-case basis. We represent clients in all types of commercial claims and disputes, including matters such as breach of contract, employment, copyright infringement, and misappropriation of trade secrets, partnership disputes, business dissolution, business torts, e-commerce and cyberspace matters, and construction defect claims.
Our Strategic Approach
We consider it our obligation to understand each industry represented by our clients. We also undergo a strategic analysis and planning of our clients' current situations, goals, and needs. We help our clients plan through their anticipated actions in order to completely understand the impact on their businesses both presently and long term We understand the need to focus on the bottom line and concentrate on moving forward - our law firm does this every day. Thus, we strive to present the most practical, cost-effective solutions to our clients needs. We know how destructive commercial litigation can be to a small business - not just to its financial standing, but also to its reputation in the community. We educate clients about how carefully researched and prepared legal documents, and consistent workplace policies are essential to their risk management. We do these things so that our clients' organizations can grow and thrive.
Contact a Business Transactions and Commercial Litigation Lawyer
Learn how our law firm can help your company. Contact the Law Offices of Maribeth Blessing, LLC, in Rockledge, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Call us at 215-392-0849 to schedule an initial consultation.
