Deciding how to start a business and ensure compliance with legal requirements can be a complicated process. Buying and selling a business can be even more hazardous. At Weiss & Hiller, PC, we simplify these issues and ensure that businesses can focus on the products they sell and the services they provide, leaving the legal issues to us. In particular, we counsel and advise businesses, business owners, members, managers, directors and officers in a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including:

• Formation of corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs) and partnerships
• Preparation and review of contracts of all types including stockholder, partnership, operating, management, employment, joint-venture, license, bulk-sales, non-disclosure, non-compete, non-solicitation, and consignment agreements
• Drafting stockholders and directors resolutions, and all manner of corporate documents
• Handling the purchase or sale of businesses, including both stock and asset sales
• Licensing trademarks, trade names and other intellectual property
• Licensing of computer content and cell phone content
• Internet agreements
• Other commercial transactions
• Business litigation

Our corporate lawyers represent corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, business trusts, sole proprietorships, directors, officers, members, managers, and other individual clients in business and industry, including the following: apparel and textile, real estate, construction, multi-media entertainment, post-production/film and sound editing, marine terminal operations and the maritime industry, museum and fine art, e-commerce, computer software services and other IT, food service and restaurants, vocational and non-vocational schools, limousine, electronic and micro-electronic manufacturing and distribution, mail-order and direct solicitation, graphic design, advertising, accounting, life settlement, inventors, package construction, importing, freight forwarding, mortgage banking, and other financial services industries.

Because of the breadth of services we offer, we often serve as outside corporate counsel for companies that do not have their own in-house legal department.