Start-up Businesses
The Williams Firm’s business and corporate attorneys specialize in representing start-up companies. The attorneys of The Williams Firm have represented numerous business start-ups in a wide variety of fields and industries. The Firm not only represents start-up businesses but also directors, officers, partners, managers, members, founders, entrepreneurs and executives. The Firms’ corporate and business attorneys all have over 20 years of experience.
The Firm’s start-up business attorneys provide advice and representation to business clients in the areas of business and corporate law. The Firm has recognized expertise in the areas of structuring, negotiating and documenting various types of business and corporate transactions, including:
- Forming and structuring all types of corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, joint ventures and sole proprietorships
- Transactions regarding the purchase and sale of businesses, including asset sales and stock sales
- New and emerging e-commerce and high technology companies
- Business formation, financing and acquisitions
- Business finance transactions, including the negotiation and preparation of loan documents
- Corporate governance
- Maintenance of corporate minutes
- Stock options
- Preferred stock
- Employment and labor matters
- Dealing with investors and venture capitalists
- Dissolutions of corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, joint ventures and sole proprietorships
- Disputes among shareholders in corporations, partners in partnerships and members of limited liability companies
- Buy-sell agreements and shareholder agreements
- Restricted stock
- Capitalization issues
- Employment agreements
- Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
- Buyout of shareholders, partners or member's interests in an existing entity
- Structuring and planning of business entities
- Regulatory and licensing matters
- Trade secrets
- Covenants not to compete
- Liquor licenses
The Williams Firm also provides expertise in intellectual property to start-up companies. The protection of a start-up companies’ intellectual property is very important and the attorneys of the Williams Firm can provide the necessary expertise to protect your intellectual property. The Firm represents a wide variety of traditional and high technology businesses in matters involving the protection of intellectual property. Our head intellectual property attorney taught intellectual property courses at law schools, was the founding president of the Intellectual Property Section of the Contra Costa County Bar Association and has over 20 years of intellectual property experience as an attorney.
The Firm has extensive experience representing clients in all types of intellectual property matters, including:
- Intellectual property transactions of all kinds
- Trademark registrations for the United States and international trademark registrations
- Trademark litigation
- Copyright registrations
- Copyright litigation
- Opposition and cancellation proceedings to registrations of trademarks under The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board procedures
- Protection of intellectual property
- The formation, financing, acquisition and representation of start-up companies
- Trademark, copyright and patent license and assignment agreements
- Licensing agreements for every industry and type of property
- Cross-promotion, co-branding agreements and strategic alliances
- Content agreements
- Arbitration pursuant to the UDRP or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ Uniform Domain Name and Dispute Resolution Policy
- Technical support agreements
- Software development agreements
- Domain names and domain name disputes
- E-Commerce
- Website terms of use
- Privacy policies
- Clickwrap agreements
- Website development agreements
- Website hosting agreements
- Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
- Trade secret policies
- The Internet
- Intellectual property inventories and counseling
- OEM, VAR
- Distribution Agreements
The attorneys at The Williams Firm also assist with resolving disputes and aggressive representation of clients in business and commercial litigation. Contact an attorney who can assist with your start-up business.
