The Miller Morton Caillat & Nevis corporate law attorneys provide comprehensive legal advice to all types of business entities including corporations, closely-held entities, limited liability companies, general and limited partnerships and joint ventures. Our attorneys have significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, sales, consolidations, redemptions and dissolutions of businesses. We also provide counseling and advice to clients regarding the tax consequences associated with such transactions to take advantage of current tax and other laws.

In addition to counseling existing businesses, our attorneys have experience developing the structure of start-up and newly formed businesses. We work closely with our clients and their accountants in this early stage in order that all aspects of the undertaking can be examined. We are also experienced in providing counseling and advice in connection with agreements restricting transfer of ownership, agreements granting options to acquire additional ownership interests and other similar contracts often used by a newly formed company.

SERVICES

• Formation of business entity • Shareholder, partner and operating agreements • Purchase and Sales Contracts • Mergers, consolidations, and dissolutions

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

	•		Formation and representation of an investor group to acquire a retail shopping center containing approximately 228,139 square feet of rentable space situated on leased land, to refinance the existing financing with a conduit lender and to coordinate the eventual sale of the shopping center for $51,000,000.
	•		Negotiation and documentation of the acquisition and development (with tax credit financing) of approximately 1.9 acres of undeveloped land for the construction of approximately 250 low cost housing units.
	•		Representation of a national motorcycle manufacturer on diverse business-related issues, including dispute over ownership of designs.
	•		Representation of a metal-plating business owner in purchasing another plating business in bankruptcy and subsequent sale to a third party.