Leon Nazarian, CPA, JD
Tax controversies, IRS representation, tax debt matters and tax planning for individuals and businesses in Santa Monica and the Westside.
Business & Corporate attorneys in Los Angeles
Formation, contracts, commercial disputes, partnership matters and transactions.
About Business & Corporate matters in Los Angeles
Business and corporate work covers entity formation, contracts, commercial disputes, partnership and shareholder matters, and transactions. Unlike most areas in this directory, the client is usually a business rather than an individual, and the work is often preventive — the point is to avoid the dispute rather than to win it.
Formation questions get more attention than they deserve and structure questions get less. Choosing between an LLC and a corporation matters, but what usually determines whether a business survives a falling-out is the operating agreement or bylaws: how decisions are made, how a founder exits, what happens to their stake, and how a deadlock is broken. Those clauses are cheap to write at the start and expensive to litigate later.
California adds requirements that surprise businesses formed elsewhere, including registration obligations for out-of-state entities doing business here and an annual minimum franchise tax that applies regardless of profit. A firm working in this market should raise those before you ask.
Hourly billing is the norm. Because a single figure for a whole matter is rarely meaningful, ask for an estimate broken down by phase, and ask who does the routine drafting — the difference between partner and associate rates across a long transaction is usually larger than the difference between firms.
Business & Corporate firms in the directory
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Cultiva Law, PC
Cannabis and psychedelics business law firm with a Los Angeles office among six locations, covering business law, litigation, compliance, trademark and branding, and mediation.
Cohen Law Firm
Business and real estate firm founded in 1986, covering civil litigation and appeals, business transactions, trusts and probate, estate planning, and residential/commercial real estate deals.
Tucker Ellis LLP
National law firm with litigation and transactional depth across more than 60 service areas; its Los Angeles office is at 515 South Flower Street, Suite 4200.
Legacy One Law Firm
Los Angeles law firm handling estate planning, probate administration, business planning, and entertainment and intellectual property matters.
Offit Kurman
Offit Kurman’s Downtown Los Angeles office advises businesses, individuals and families on transactions, disputes, employment, real estate, and estate matters.
Law Offices of Ronald G. Kim | 상법 | 부동산 법 | -형사법 | 전문 로널드 김 변호사
Los Angeles law firm handling commercial and real estate matters, corporate and banking disputes, criminal defense, and personal injury litigation.
Rosenstein Law Offices
Rosenstein Law Offices handles personal injury, insurance disputes, homeowner association matters and business disputes in California.
Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester
Manning Kass is a Los Angeles law firm serving businesses, employers, insurers and real estate professionals in litigation and transactions.
Parker-Stanbury LLP
Parker-Stanbury LLP is a Los Angeles firm serving individuals and businesses across civil, family, property and other legal matters, including California LegalShield members.
The Rad Firm, APC
The Rad Firm, APC represents real estate owners and businesses in property transactions, landlord-tenant disputes, business formation and commercial litigation in Los Angeles.
Bet Tzedek
A Los Angeles nonprofit law firm providing free civil legal assistance through programs for low-income residents, workers, seniors, and families.
Wade Litigation
Wade Litigation represents individuals and businesses in California civil disputes, including family, business, real estate, and probate litigation.
Structure Law Group, LLP
Business law firm with a Los Angeles office handling corporate transactions, commercial disputes, real estate, employment counseling and intellectual property matters.
DeClercq Law PC
DeClercq Law PC handles business disputes, real estate transactions and litigation, employment matters, and estate planning for businesses and individuals.
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Common questions
LLC or corporation — which should I form?
It depends on how you intend to take in money and pay it out, not on which is generally better. Outside investment, employee equity and how profits reach the owners each push in different directions. The more consequential document is usually the operating agreement or bylaws that comes after the choice.
Do I need to register in California if my company was formed in Delaware?
If the business actually operates here, generally yes — foreign entities transacting business in California have registration obligations, and an annual minimum franchise tax applies regardless of whether the business is profitable. Forming elsewhere does not by itself remove California obligations.
Can I use a template contract?
For low-value, repeated transactions, often yes. The risk is that templates are written for the party who published them and rarely address the specific way your deal can fail. The clauses worth paying attention to are the boring ones: termination, indemnity, limitation of liability and how disputes get resolved.
My business partner and I are in dispute. Where do I start?
With the governing document, whatever it says. Most partnership and shareholder disputes are resolved by what the operating agreement or bylaws provide about buyouts, valuation and deadlock — and the absence of those clauses is itself the usual reason such disputes become litigation.