Michigan Business Lawyers

Business Formation from the Ground Up

Well-conceived legal advice at the beginning of an enterprise or business expansion gives you a solid foundation on which you can build and grow successfully. When you take the time to receive the counseling you need, you avoid legal fees for undoing and redoing an ill-conceived business organization or transaction.

At Fausone Bohn, LLP, our Michigan business and commercial lawyers have been members of the New Enterprise Forum, IT Zone, Young Executives Organization (YEO), Young Presidents Organization (YPO), and of various Chambers of Commerce and nonprofit organizations. We understand corporate law very well and can help you with all your legal needs.

Contact[Link to Contact Us ] the Ann Arbor area business law firm of Fausone Bohn, LLP, to speak with a knowledgeable, skilled business law attorney. We have more than a decade of experience representing businesses like yours.

How to Start a Small Business

From partnerships to corporations, Fausone Bohn, LLP, will help you decide the proper business entity for your business. In the business start-up process, we will help you:

• Organize the structure of ownership: We help you choose a business entity that fits with your business plan. Possible business formations include Limited Liability Companies (LLC), C Corporations, S Corporations and Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP).
• Determine the appropriate layers of equity and debt
• Establish corporate controls to reflect the contributions of the principal owners
• Set up a joint venture
• Establish a certified minority business enterprise

Corporate Transactions

We provide a variety of transactional services to our business clients, including:

• Drafting and reviewing of business contracts
• Assisting businesses with franchise law issues
• Buying and selling of assets, including real estate
• Buying and selling of businesses
• Business succession
• Asset protection
• Bids for government contracts

We also help businesses in raising new financing of both debt and equity. We have many years of experience representing lenders and borrowers in debt financing or refinancing transactions. When loans become troubled, our Michigan business lawyers provide workout advice and strategies. We guide clients through restructuring their capital foundations.

Employment Law Issues

The workplace demands thoughtful anticipation of potential barriers to development. Our business and employment attorneys counsel you on preventive measures, especially:

• Personnel policies and handbooks
• Employee disciplinary actions
• Disability and family leave issues, including FMLA issues
• Employee leasing
• Workforce reductions

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If an employer (or potential employer) wants to prevent future problems, it needs to have a sound employment policy in place, which it enforces consistently. When starting a business, the owner needs to have an entity that serves the business’ needs as well as a strong financial structure. Our expertise directs you to a sensible, well-established position of safety.

Contact us to find out more about protecting your Michigan business.

Michigan Business Formation Lawyer
Michigan Corporate Law Attorney

Michigan LLC startup attorney providing help starting a small business and help setting up a LLC in Michigan, and providing S corporation formation, franchise law and business formation legal services to clients throughout southeast Michigan.