Counseling Small Business Owners on Real Estate Law across Northeast Ohio for more than 20 years
As an extension of your team, we push hard for your interests. You may decide to expand your construction business, sell your company, purchase/lease an office for your small business, or grow your nonprofit. Our team doesn’t take that responsibility lightly; we’ve all spent our careers learning the ins and outs of our clients’ businesses.
Business Transactions
Contract Preparation & Negotiation
Real Estate Transactions
Risk Management & Compliance
Business Succession Planning
Non-Profit Organizations
Business Transactions
When you’re looking to acquire another business, sell your business, or bring on a partner, we aim to complete those transactions in an easy-to-understand, seamless way that protects your interests. So you don’t have to deal with lawyer jargon, we sort through contracts and other documents for you to make sure there are no issues—that everything is as negotiated between parties—so you come away from transactions happy and protected.
Contract Preparations & Negotiations
When we’re there from the start, we can help you prepare contracts for transactions and employees. We prepare and negotiate everything: transactional documents, supply agreements, vendor contracts, service contracts, and employment agreements. We understand the risks that come from your business and ensure your contracts put you in the best possible position. Then we work with you to master those contracts and get everyone else on the same page, reducing future problems and misunderstandings.
Real Estate Transactions
Expanding your business by acquiring or leasing real estate requires effective communication. We make ourselves accessible to talk you through pros and cons, and when it comes time, we ensure your voice is represented in negotiations. When you want to sell your real estate assets such as your business’s investment properties, we also make that process as straightforward as possible, working with you closely to understand your goals so everything goes smoothly.
Risk Management & Compliance
Jobs and deals can’t always be straightforward, and they can open up your business to risks. We help you see those risks in real-time and take action to avoid or minimize them. We also make sure that strategy works alongside your insurance coverages and the insurance of your counterparts. When government contracts are involved, the process of managing those risks and becoming compliant can be a lengthy one. We work with you to identify areas in which you’re not compliant and look at the bigger picture—advising you openly and honestly to keep risks low (or properly manage risky situations) and compliance high.
Business Succession Planning
Sometimes, it’s difficult to decide what will happen with your business after you retire or pass away. We sit down and chat with you about your future—and your business’s future—to determine how we’ll frame your business succession plan. We don’t leave any stones unturned. Having worked with many business owners on these plans (from general contractors to local nonprofits), our team is well-versed in getting the details we need to create a succession plan you’re content with. We make sure your plan is aligned with your accounting and tax professionals and other trusted advisors so it works on all fronts.
Non-Profit Organizations
Our team loves community service, and we admire all that non-profits do to better the areas and lives of the people around them. Legalities can get tricky when it comes to having a 501(c)(3), though. Our team is experienced in a variety of non-profit legal issues and transactions. We work alongside you to review your goals, check all your documents, make sure everything is up-to-date, help you manage large donor gift logistics, and advise on the day-to-day running of your nonprofit.
