Business Law

Shibley Righton LLP has a long standing reputation for its results-oriented advice to business clients. That tradition continues today, with a focused team of professionals long on knowledge, legal and business experience, and particularly strong on reacting quickly and creatively to solve client issues. We strive to deliver legal services on a basis that emphasizes our team approach to bring together the skills required for each particular transaction in a manner that minimizes costs.

Our business law team carries on a full-service practice, including:

• financing encompassing everything from conventional debt, equity and asset-based lending to custom structures such as limited partnerships, leasing and trusts;

• domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and divestitures;

• planning and implementation of simple and complex corporate reorganizations,

• domestic, cross-border and international distributorships, licensing, joint ventures, and other strategic relationships;

• commercial agreements, including purchase and sale of goods, provision and acquisition of services, delivery and transportation, research;

• corporate governance and management, including building and advising boards of directors, directors and officers liability and insurance, meetings and other statutory compliance;

• formation of domestic and international corporations, partnerships and trusts;

• securities law, particularly relating to junior public companies;

• shareholders' and partnership agreements, relationships, and disputes including creative settlement approaches, divisive reorganizations, and corporate divorce;

• franchising agreements, planning, and disputes;

• entertainment law, including recording artist agreements, producer agreements, management agreements, publishing agreements and the development and marketing of entertainment;

• intellectual property law including trade-mark and copyright applications, trade-mark oppositions and intellectual property licensing; and

• not-for-profit and charitable corporations.