Harris Sliwoski LLP
Harris Sliwoski LLP's Los Angeles office handles corporate transactions, business and intellectual property disputes, and legal matters for regulated businesses.
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.
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Goodkin APC
Los Angeles firm handling real estate transactions and disputes, business litigation, and insurance coverage matters.
Goodwin Procter Los Angeles
Goodwin's Los Angeles office handles real estate and corporate transactions, commercial disputes, and intellectual property matters.
Gardner + Associates Lawyers
Los Angeles law practice handling real estate and business disputes, with select restraining order cases.
Eanet, PC
Eanet, PC handles business and real estate litigation and provides employment litigation and counseling for employers in California.
Steinbrecher & Span LLP
Steinbrecher & Span LLP handles business litigation and transactions, real estate disputes, intellectual property matters and employer-side employment litigation from its Los Angeles office.
Peter D. Gordon & Associates
Los Angeles firm handling real estate transactions and disputes, business matters, and intellectual property matters through a network led by Peter D. Gordon.
Solve & Win, PC
Los Angeles business law firm advising companies and entrepreneurs on transactions, contracts, regulatory compliance, employment, intellectual property and real estate matters.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP's Los Angeles office handles corporate, real estate, intellectual property and bankruptcy matters as part of a broader business law practice.
Los Angeles Litigation Lawyers
Los Angeles civil litigation firm representing individuals and businesses in business, employment, landlord-tenant, trust, and probate disputes.
Celaya Law
Celaya Law handles estate planning, probate and estate administration, and related business planning for California clients, with a Los Angeles office.
Greenacre Law, LLP
Greenacre Law, LLP handles California real estate disputes, estate planning, probate and trust litigation, and related business transactions.
Kassouni Law - Los Angeles
Kassouni Law represents private individuals and businesses in property rights, land use, real estate and appellate matters, with an office in Los Angeles.
Seyfnia & Prybylo, LLP
Civil litigation firm with offices in Los Angeles and Pasadena, handling property and business disputes, probate and trust matters, and employment defense.
The Orantes Law Firm
The Orantes Law Firm handles individual and business bankruptcy, estate planning, and commercial and intellectual property disputes in Southern California.
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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.