Business Transactions
R|L provides experienced counsel to clients in a wide range of business transactions, including the acquisition and sale of assets and businesses, the licensing and exploitation of intellectual property and creative content, and the structuring of strategic relationships and ongoing business operations. Our clients include buyers and sellers of goods and services across several industries, including entertainment and media, restaurant and food service, hospitality, commercial and private lending, medical practice, and professional services, among many others. Regardless of industry, we provide innovative and insightful solutions to assist our clients in improving their current operations by taking advantage of new opportunities.
Franchising
R|L represents franchisees and licenses both national and regional retail brands and offers specialized advice to each client based on our broad practice and expertise. We help our clients manage their businesses whether we are assisting them by forming a holding company; developing an operating company structure; negotiating the acquisition or lease of commercial property, overseeing property development, building construction, and government permitting; or addressing employment and operational concerns. While we can react and respond to problems as they arise, we serve our clients best by anticipating issues and advising our clients on how to avoid these problems. As a result, our clients can focus on making confident business decisions and growing their operations.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Our Mergers and Acquisitions Practice encompasses a broad spectrum of activities ranging from pre-deal counseling, due diligence, negotiation of terms, drafting principal agreements and transaction documents, and the ultimate transfers of property and rights. Our experience extends to the representation of both buyers and sellers of businesses, which allows us to bring efficiency and focus with a high degree of skill to the transaction process. We understand the underlying tax and financial considerations of each transaction, and we work with our clients to address these issues, regardless of the deal structure, including :
· Asset Purchases and Sales
· Stock Purchases and Sales
· Mergers Purchases and Sales
· Taxable and Non-Taxable Mergers
· Spin-offs of Subsidiaries or Divisions of Companies
· Recapitalizations
We are committed to helping our clients evaluate each deal and consummate the sale that best achieves their objectives, whether that means locating strategic partners, finding prospective purchasers or sellers, identifying potential financing sources, or negotiating the most favorable terms.
Regardless of their circumstances, we utilize our experience, contacts, and market savvy to ensure that we deliver the most effective legal services to each of our merger and acquisition clients.
Entity Formation
R|L works closely with its clients to choose and organize business entities that best achieve each client’s goals. Maximizing value from a business entity perspective requires understanding the big picture and the business owner’s business and vision.
By focusing on what each client is seeking to achieve, we can use our legal expertise to create favorable tax treatment and establish efficient company governance, asset protection, frameworks for employee incentives, and ownership transfer procedures. These considerations are often the keys to avoiding costly conflict amongst owners, minimizing disruption in the business, and achieving long-term- growth and success.
We bring a wide array of knowledge and experience to clients from diverse industries and backgrounds, whether by helping entrepreneurs start new businesses or by assisting established companies in developing new subsidiaries and operating structures. We utilize our technical experience, practical knowledge, and creative intuition to select the most advantageous business form and create a system that best facilitates the client’s specific goal.
Commercial Real Estate Transactions
R|L provides experienced counsel to clients in an array of real estate transactions, including acquisition and sale, leasing, and structuring strategic relationships and ongoing business operations. Our clients include buyers and sellers, lessors and lessees, developers, and operators, including restaurant and foodservice, hospitality, retail, medical, and professional offices. Regardless of industry, we provide thoughtful counsel to our clients as they seek to protect and augment their real estate portfolios.
Copyright
Copyright
Copyright
R|L has extensive experience in addressing copyright issues for our clients, whether they are songwriters, composers, authors, filmmakers, corporate developers of software, or new media content. We provide a full spectrum of legal copyright services, including registration, licensing, and copyright transfer.
We also prepare and negotiate domestic and international copyright licenses for music, film, print, photography, and other forms of media. We frequently represent media and entertainment companies that are seeking to develop and license their proprietary copyrights across multiple platforms
Trademark
Copyright
Copyright
Our clients seek our experience in helping them develop, manage, and commercially exploit their trademarks. In furtherance of their objectives, we advise our clients on registration and protection of their trademarks and service marks, and we counsel them on implementing a brand development strategy.
Moreover, we routinely prepare their trademark applications for federal registration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. We also draft and negotiate trademark licensing agreements. We advise our clients on strategies for creating new revenue streams by exploiting their proprietary marks for companies and individuals.
Commercial Litigation
Litigation can have a significant impact on a company’s ability to achieve its business objectives. As a result, our Commercial Litigation Practice specializes in contract disputes, business torts, and other legal conflicts that directly affect our clients’ business interests and operations.
We aggressively pursue and defend our clients’ interests in matters involving claims of breach of contract, fraud, corporate governance, and breach of fiduciary duty. R|L actively counsels our clients about their options, and we assist them in assessing liability and making decisions consistent with their goals.
While litigation is often a necessary and effective process to resolve some legal disputes, it is not always the best option. Through our Dispute Resolution Practice, R|L employs efficient and cost-effective alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods that allow us to resolve disputes without the need for traditional litigation. Whether through direct negotiations and compromise, mediation, or arbitration, we work carefully with each client to determine the best method for the parties to resolve their conflict.
The benefits our clients may obtain from ADR include greater time efficiency and lowered cost, substantially reduced media coverage and publicity, and possible preservation of personal and business relationships.
Dispute Resolution
While litigation is often a necessary and effective process to resolve some legal disputes, it is not always the best option. Through our Dispute Resolution Practice, R|L employs efficient and cost-effective alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods that allow us to resolve disputes without the need for traditional litigation. Whether through direct negotiations and compromise, mediation, or arbitration, we work carefully with each client to determine the best method for the parties to resolve their conflict.
The benefits our clients may obtain from ADR include greater time efficiency and lowered cost, substantially reduced media coverage and publicity, and possible preservation of personal and business relationships
Alternative Dispute Resolution
There are times when only hard-nosed litigation will secure a victory or desired outcome. In such instances, Register|Lett employs its experience and resources to our clients' advantage in courts across multiple states. However, our concept of “dispute resolution” is more expansive. Litigation is but one tool at our disposal for achieving our clients’ goals. Therefore, after considerable discussion and assessing the facts of our clients’ controversies, we advise the most effective way to achieve those goals. If litigation is not the answer, we readily explore “alternative” strategies.
Through our Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice, R|L employs efficient and cost-effective alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods that allow us to resolve disputes without the cost and delay associated with traditional litigation.
Therefore, whether the approach is litigation, ADR—or some combination of the two—Register|Lett provides its clients with representation that allows them to move beyond the present dispute and back to normal life and business as soon as possible.
