Outside general counsel
A lawyer on call for owners who don't need a full-time legal department but can't afford to guess.
- Contract and vendor review
- Demand letters and responses
- Risk calls before you act
Services
Full-service counsel for your business
Most clients come to me for one thing and stay for the rest. When a matter calls for tax, securities, or estate planning work, I bring in colleagues at Saltiel Law Group, so you keep one point of contact.
Business counsel
Contracts and commercial agreements
Drafting and negotiating the agreements a business runs on, written with an eye to how they'll be read if there's ever a fight.
- Supply, services, and consulting agreements
- Consignment and distribution
- Franchise agreements
Entities and ownership
Setting up the company, documenting who owns what, and planning for the day a partner wants out.
- Formation of LLCs and corporations
- Operating and shareholder agreements
- Buy-ins, buyouts, and membership interest purchases
Buying and selling a business
Purchase agreements, due diligence, and closing documents for owners acquiring or exiting a company.
- Asset and equity purchases
- Due diligence
- Closing and post-closing issues
Financing and real estate documents
The paper behind a loan or a property deal, drafted to be enforceable when it matters.
- Promissory notes and guaranties
- Owner-financed sales and mortgages
- Commercial leases and joint venture agreements
Restrictive covenants and trademarks
Protecting the relationships and the brand a business has built.
- Non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, including under the 2025 CHOICE Act
- Confidentiality agreements
- Trademark oppositions before the TTAB
Disputes and litigation
Contract and business torts
Claims and defenses involving broken agreements, fraud, civil theft, and unfair trade practices.
- Breach of contract
- Fraud and civil theft
- FDUTPA and tortious interference
Partner, shareholder, and association disputes
Fights over who owns a company, who controls it, and what a departing owner is owed, including condominium and HOA board control.
- Partnership and buyout disputes
- Board election arbitration
- Receivership motions
Real estate and lease disputes
Joint venture fights over investment property, partition between co-owners, and landlord-tenant litigation.
- Partition
- Specific performance
- Lis pendens and equitable liens
Trade secrets and non-competes
Enforcing and defending restrictive covenants when an employee or executive leaves.
- Trade secret misappropriation
- Non-solicitation enforcement
- Injunctions
Lender, banking, and insurance disputes
Loan and guaranty actions, frozen-account disputes, interpleader, and coverage fights.
- Commercial loan defense
- Bank account disputes
- Insurance recovery
Appeals and collection
Third District appeals, and the post-judgment work that turns a judgment into money.
- Non-final and final appeals
- Garnishment and proceedings supplementary
- Post-judgment defense