Corporate and Business Law
Corporate and Business Law
W&N represents our clients in virtually all of their day-to-day corporate and business matters. Our personal service encourages clients to seek our counsel with real-time responses and solutions.
For nearly four decades, businesses large and small in Maryland and Washington, D.C., have turned to W&N for dependable guidance on the full range of legal challenges in owning and operating their businesses, real estate entities and professional organizations. Whether buying or selling businesses, negotiating commercial contracts, or handling business disputes, W&N’s realistic, detail-oriented approach helps them achieve their goals.
In the course of our day-to-day representation of our business clients, we routinely prepare and review virtually every type of contract with customers, employees, partners, vendors, lenders, and suppliers. Particularly in today’s most challenging business climate, we assist our clients in developing and preparing important policies and procedures necessary for their day-to-day operations.
Our Experience
We serve as general counsel for hundreds of small, regional and even national companies. Our clients are a diverse group of businesses and professionals, including: automobile dealerships, commercial real estate owners, developers and management companies, custom home builders, commercial construction companies, commercial lenders, golf course owners, wholesale manufactures and distributors, retailers, physicians, medical practices, law firms, entertainers and professional athletes, car washes, landscape companies, staffing companies, web designers, digital print companies and trade associations including the Middle-Atlantic division of the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA).
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W&N – Your General Counsel
Acquisitions
- W&N routinely represent clients in complex business transactions including: the acquisition of new businesses, as well as the sale or merger of their existing business (or interests) to third parties, partners or family members.
- Acquisition of new businesses
- Asset sales
- Stock/membership sales
- Mergers and expansions
- Franchise agreements
- These transactions require preparation of comprehensive documents beginning from the letter of intent through the sale or purchase agreements and closing. Clients benefit from our decades of experience in acquiring and selling businesses. We are always cognizant of how other areas of the law, such as divorce and estate planning, will affect your business decisions and advise as these realities of life touch on your business.
Business Disputes
- W&N approaches each client’s business with creative, custom-tailored solutions. W&N has decades of experience handling complex disputes among sophisticated parties, as well as among family-held and closely-held businesses, and the inherently unique tax, legal, and business issues surrounding closely-held and family-run businesses, including:
- Shareholder claims
- Partnership disputes
- Business breakups
- We counsel shareholders, partners, and members of corporations, partnerships, LLCs, and other business entities in preventing break-ups and ensuring the continuance of their businesses when break-ups are inevitable.
