Estate Law GMF&D Goodson, Manley, Forakis and Deloughery, PLC

Business Planning

Preventive Law Studies

Confidential Agreement

GMFD Law will:

Serve as outside counsel for a business.
Counsel on forming a business, how to advantageously structure it, and how to raise capital.
Prepare all documents to form a corporation, partnership, or sole proprietorship.
Prepare all minutes of annual, periodic, or special meetings of corporations, partnerships or sole proprietorships.
Prepare fringe benefit packages for businesses to maximize tax savings.
Prepare copyrights, patents, trademarks and trade names.
Prepare corporate documents to liquidate, merge, or sell a business.
Advise clients on common commercial problems.
Structure agreements with supervisory employees (key persons), non-supervisory employees, independent contractors, and customers/clients.
Set up procedures for settling disputes within and outside the business.
Facilitate and conduct effective business meetings.
Perform "audits" of legal documents involved in a business and make recommendations to bring the structures and moves up to the state of the art.
Design and implement buy and sell agreements.
Set up foundations, non-profit corporations, and other charitable structures.
Handle the transfer of all assets and rights between persons, businesses, and other legal structures.
Involve, train, and coordinate a team of business advisors, including bankers, management consultants, financial planners, accountants, life insurance underwriters, property and casualty underwriters, and marketing consultants.
Advise on techniques for collecting debts or protecting a business against the collection of debts.
Advise on how to document the financial status of a business so it will qualify for lines of credit or loans.
Advise and arrange for retirement plans: pension, profit sharing, Keogh, IRA, 401(k), thrift plans and ESOP.
Prepare detailed business plans for tax reduction, legal problem avoidance and greater profitability.
Prepare documents to avoid lawsuits, to mediate, arbitrate or otherwise assist in settling business disputes without lawsuits.
Prepare agreements for the sale of business enterprises and routine business agreements for sale or leasing of goods and basic Uniform Commercial Code forms and transactions.
Prepare promissory notes and various collateral agreements, mortgages, deeds of trust, agreements for sale, subdivision trusts, and personal guarantees, and otherwise handle loan transactions.
Assist clients in qualifying for loans.
Handle real estate sales, financing and construction, including the preparation of escrow instructions, purchase agreements, option agreements, easements and the assessment of preliminary title reports.
Handle leasing transactions.
Tax advice and counseling for mergers and acquisitions of a complex type.