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Founders, operators, owners. Entity formation, contracts, employment, and compliance frameworks built for companies that cannot afford generalist counsel. Senior judgment from intake to closing.
LLC, PLLC, S-Corp, professional entity formation under the Business Organizations Code. Operating agreements, partnership agreements, founder buy-sell, voting structures. Filed clean, structured for the long-term.
Master services agreements, vendor contracts, distribution and supply agreements, IP licenses, NDAs. M&A counsel for small to mid-market transactions. Structured for execution, not just paper.
Employment agreements, handbooks, non-competes, non-solicits. Independent contractor classification. Texas-specific employment compliance. Wage-and-hour, FMLA, ADA, Title VII counsel for growing businesses.
Sector-specific compliance for healthcare, financial services, education vendors, government contractors, and other regulated industries. Built-in regulatory review at every stage of business operations.
For businesses selling to school districts, municipalities, or state agencies: RFP response, contract negotiation, vendor compliance. Our school and government practice gives the corporate side a deep institutional read.
Owner buy-sell agreements. Operating-agreement drag-along and tag-along structures. Exit planning. Succession structures for closely-held businesses.
Privately-held Texas businesses do not need template counsel. They need senior judgment that understands the trade-offs an owner actually has to make. That is the only kind of counsel this firm provides.
For a specific transaction: formation, contract, acquisition, employment matter. Flat fee, defined scope, clear timeline.
Monthly retainer for ongoing counsel. Day-to-day questions, contract review, compliance check. The structure for businesses that need counsel as part of operations, not as a one-off. See outside general counsel. For the thresholds that tell a business when that moment arrives, see our article on hiring outside general counsel in Texas.
For complex transactions, contested employment matters, or regulatory situations that require deep focus. Structured engagement, defined deliverables.
Business clients run on cycles their lawyers should match. Whether the matter is a formation, a contract negotiation, an employment question, or a transaction, we run a predictable engagement so the business never has to wonder where the work is.
Initial consultation with the founder, owner, or in-house counsel. Conflicts check, written engagement letter with a flat fee where the scope supports one, document pull, and a one-page scope memo by end of week covering deliverables, deadlines, decision-makers, and what we need from the client to close on time.
Draft documents to the client with the structural decisions called out in margin comments so the client sees the choices, not just the language. For formations, that means the entity structure, taxation election, and operating-agreement framework. For transactions, the deal structure, allocation of risk, and the open commercial points. We surface decisions, we do not bury them in 30 pages of redlines.
Counterparty negotiation, redline reconciliation, and where applicable lender review, insurance review, or regulator filing. Daily availability during the active negotiation window. Status email to the client weekly with what moved, what is queued, and what decisions still need the client's call.
Signatures collected, filings made (Secretary of State, IRS, county clerk, or other as applicable), funds flow if any, and a closing binder delivered to the client. Closing memo covers what was done, the operational follow-ups the client owns going forward, and the calendar of any post-closing deadlines.
These five matter types account for the majority of the corporate and business work we handle for Texas owners and operators.
PLLC, LLC, PC, LP, and corporation formations for Texas business owners. Conversions from an existing entity into a different structure. Multi-entity structuring with a holding company and operating subsidiaries. S-corporation elections and tax-treatment counsel in coordination with the client's CPA. See our article on PLLC vs LLC vs PC for the framework we walk Texas professionals through.
Operating agreements drafted to the practice's actual fee-sharing structure, decision rights, and partner admission and exit mechanics. Buy-sell agreements between owners. Founder employment agreements with vesting where the practice supports vesting. Deadlock and dispute resolution provisions tailored to the practice's likely points of disagreement. See our article on operating agreement disputes in Texas LLCs for the law that takes over when partners stop agreeing.
Employee handbook drafting and updates, independent contractor classification audits, non-compete and non-solicit drafting and enforcement, separation agreements and releases, response to wage-and-hour audits, and counsel through individual employment disputes. We work with growing Texas businesses where the HR function has to scale faster than the headcount.
Master services agreements, statements of work, vendor agreements, partnership agreements, distribution agreements, licensing agreements, and the contract templates that growing businesses need to keep close to the standard so they do not negotiate the same point five different times. We draft for the client's protection, we negotiate when negotiation is warranted, and we tell the client when a counterparty redline is fine to accept and when it is not.
Industry-specific compliance counsel for businesses operating under state or federal regulatory frameworks. Internal policy drafting, training program design, audit response, and counsel through regulator inquiries and investigations. We work primarily with Texas businesses in regulated services industries where the cost of a compliance failure is meaningfully higher than the cost of getting it right up front.
To open a corporate or business matter cleanly we ask for the same five inputs every time. None take more than an afternoon to assemble.
Tell us about the matter. We will tell you whether it is something we handle, what the path looks like, and what counsel would cost.
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