Business Entities & Transactions

Attorneys at Thompson McMullan provide a comprehensive array of legal services for our business clients, including all aspects of their business and contractual relationships with vendors, customers, and agents during the course of the client’s existence. The manager of the ThompsonMcMullan Business practice area is Richard L. Grier. Our practice in this area focuses primarily upon closely-held domestic businesses in which the principal owners are actively involved in their management or domestic subsidiaries of larger domestic or foreign business entities. Our lawyers work diligently to educate our clients on the need to execute well-drafted documents that anticipate the client’s needs at the beginning of the transaciton and to educate ourselves on tthose needs. Our clients include business corporations (including S corporations), limited liability companies and limited partnerships, professional limited liability companies and partnerships, and foundations and other exempt organizations. With their extensive experience in these areas, our business attorneys provide such services as:

entity selection advice for domestic and foreign clients;
creation of the appropriate legal entity to do business in Virginia, (e.g. stock corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, general partnership or limited liability partnership);
complete “start-up” advice and assistance for domestic or foreign businesses moving into Richmond or Virginia from another state or foreign jurisdiction;
preparation of agreements between shareholders or other owners of closely-held businesses, protecting the rights of individual shareholders not otherwise provided by statutory corporate law;
representation in connection with either equity or debt financing of new or existing businesses, including private placements of such offerings;
representation in the purchase and sale of businesses, whether the transaction involves the sale of the company’s assets, shares of stock, or membership interests;
the structuring of mergers and reorganizations to meet changing business, financial and personal needs;
representation in establishing tax exempt determination for and operation of tax exempt organizations;
creating, reviewing, and negotiating standard terms and conditions of sale for inclusion in purchase orders, sales acknowledgment forms, or other governing agreements;
negotiating and drafting distributorship or manufacturer’s representative agreements;
negotiating and drafting leases;
negotiating and drafting software development agreements and network/server maintenance and service agreements; and
negotiating and drafting agreements for the purchase and sale of goods in secured transactions, including sales in international commerce involving the issuance of letters of credit.