Business Transactions
Company Formation, Operation, and Liquidation
Bever Dye provides extensive services to business organizations of all types, which in many instances, overlaps our taxation and estate planning practice. These services include the formation, operation, and liquidation of the following types of companies:
- C corporations
- S corporations
- Professional corporations
- General partnerships
- Limited partnerships
- Limited liability companies (LLC)
- Joint ventures
- Tax-exempt organizations
Our lawyers are skilled in managing the structures, reorganizations, mergers, recapitalizations, redemptions of interests, and other restructurings necessary to achieve business objectives. We advise on all aspects of the operation of such entities. We also counsel the boards of corporations on proper corporate governance.
Partnership Taxation
Our attorneys have extensive experience with issues affecting the formation, operation, and dissolution of partnerships, both general and limited. They are frequently called upon to draft or review partnership agreements and related documents to ensure:
- Compliance with the complex rules for special allocations of tax benefits
- Proper maintenance of capital accounts
- Proper treatment of appreciated or encumbered property contributed by or to partners
- Classification of partnership debt for purposes of the allocation provisions.
- Mergers and acquisitions
Bever Dye represents buyers and sellers in acquisition and disposition of a broad range of businesses. Our experience covers the full range of issues encountered in such activities, including tax, environmental, and other regulatory considerations, as well as special issues raised by transnational transactions.
Business Transactions
A wide variety of business transactions relate to business operations, expansion plans as well as employment benefits and management. The following are some of the transactions in which we routinely counsel and represent businesses:
- Buying and selling companies
- Publicly traded company transactions
- Closely held company transactions
- Asset based transactions
- Stock based transactions
- Business structure
- Dissolutions
- Liquidations
- Buy/sell agreements among stockholders
- Debt financing
- Employment contracts
- Retirement plans
- Severance packages for executives
- Lease agreements
- Uniform commercial code
- Non-compete agreements
- Like-kind exchanges
Arrange a Client Conference
Bever Dye has significant experience in representing businesses and is prepared to accommodate businesses of all sizes in all of their company needs. We look forward to being of service. Please call our firm at 316-263-8294 or email us to schedule a client conference.
