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The business and corporate law practice at McLaughlin Quinn Cianciolo Bilodeau LLC focuses on all aspects of business transactions and decision making. Our business attorneys have extensive experience in large transactions with significant tax implications and serve as a trusted advisor to businesses of all sizes and types, providing clients with creative solutions to oftentimes complex and multi-faceted business problems. Our tax attorneys and business attorneys collaborate closely on business and corporate law matters to ensure that business transactions are conducted in a tax efficient manner, to maximize tax benefits and minimize tax liability. Our tax expertise sets us apart from many other firms offering business and corporate law services.
We take pride in maintaining long-term relationships with our business clients through the entire lifecycle of their businesses. As part of a client’s business team, we provide advice on alternative approaches to transactions, opportunities, and challenges, to help the client achieve their goals. Our clients represent a wide spectrum of industries, including technology, software, distribution, manufacturing, health care, and commercial real estate.
Whether a client intends to transition ownership of a closely held business to the next generation or to transition ownership to key employees, we understand the tax and legal implications that complicate this capstone business event and recognize the unique challenges that the business owner faces. Our attorneys work closely with the client on managing the transition of a business to future generations, while balancing legal, business, tax, and family concerns. Business succession planning is an integral part of our trust and estate planning practice.
We regularly counsel clients in financing transactions, including asset-based lending, cash flow operating loans, subordinated debt or mezzanine financing arrangements, and equity investments. Finance transactions often involve financing for the acquisition of businesses, the acquisition of real estate, the refinance of existing loans, equipment loans and leases, and working capital.
Our commercial real estate practice involves the purchase, sale, lease, and financing of real estate. We manage lease negotiations for both landlords and tenants. We advise clients on a wide range of projects, including the acquisition of existing improved real estate, the acquisition of vacant land for purposes of construction of manufacturing facilities, and acquisition and development of former mill properties. We regularly negotiate, document, and close commercial real estate loans and construction financing.
The choice of legal structure during business formation is one of the most critical decisions any new business makes. Our attorneys regularly advise clients on the selection of an appropriate legal entity for a business and assist in all aspects of the formation of a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or other entity. Once the entity is formed, we assist clients during the entire life cycle of a business, from raising start-up capital through various financings, acquisitions, and other transactions, to a sale or other exit event.
We act as outside general counsel for many of our clients and advise them on a wide range of issues relating to business and corporate law, such as contracts with vendors and suppliers, non-competition and confidentiality concerns, and the admission or withdrawal of shareholders or partners. We draft and respond to demand letters and work with clients to resolve disputes outside of litigation.
We assist clients in protecting their intellectual property in interactions with third parties, including vendors, employees, consultants, and potential acquirers. We also draft and negotiate software and other intellectual property licenses on behalf of licensors and licensees.
Our mergers and acquisitions practice involves buying and selling businesses in a wide variety of transactions, including tax-free and taxable mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions spin-offs and joint ventures. Our clients have bought businesses from, and sold businesses to, private individuals and businesses, private equity and institutional investors and public companies. We work closely with our Tax Planning attorneys to impement tax strategies for these transaction to help ensure all tax implications are comprehensively addressed. We have experience and expertise representing both buyers and seller transactions from $100,000 to $100 million.
Our securities practice primarily involves advising issuers in private placements of securities in exempt transactions. We advise clients on Regulation D exemptions, prepare offering materials, close the subscription, and prepare and file Form D and related Blue Sky filings. Our clients include startups raising capital to launch new products and established businesses raising capital for expansion or acquisitions. Even the smallest of equity offerings must comply with federal and state securities laws. We work closely with our clients to structure and execute securities offerings in a cost-effective manner.
In Rhode Island, receivership is an alternative to federal bankruptcy for distressed businesses and real-estate projects. A Rhode Island receivership can be an effective tool to help businesses and their owners deal with financial difficulty. Our attorneys have been appointed as receivers and special masters for businesses and have acted as counsel to receivers and business owners. Our experience uniquely positions us to represent business owners, prospective buyers, and other stakeholders in receivership proceedings.
To talk with us about how we can apply our experience and expertise to address your business and corporate law needs, please call 401-421-5115 or use the online contact form. We welcome inquiries from businesses, individuals, and referring professionals.
From our primary location in Providence, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts offices in Boston and Westborough, the business attorneys at McLaughlin Quinn Cianciolo Bilodeau provide business and corporate law services to new and established businesses throughout New England. In addition, the firm has offices in Boca Raton, Florida and Denver, Colorado, where firm attorneys are also licensed to practice.
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