Law Office of Marc Weitz
Downtown Los Angeles law practice handling bankruptcy, business disputes, real estate matters and financial arbitration.
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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Diaz Law Firm
Diaz Law Firm represents Los Angeles clients in family law, immigration matters, and civil litigation defense.
The Law Offices of Nigel Burns
The Law Offices of Nigel Burns is a Los Angeles litigation firm handling family law, personal injury, probate and trust disputes, elder abuse, and business disputes.
Tung & Associates, APLC
A Los Angeles law firm handling criminal defense, business and employment matters, immigration, personal injury, and estate planning.
Litigation, P.C.
Los Angeles litigation firm representing clients in employment, business, real estate, and other civil disputes.
Westview Law, PC
Los Angeles litigation firm representing employees and handling business and commercial disputes, including workplace claims, contract matters, fraud, and fiduciary-duty disputes.
The Internet Law Group
Beverly Hills commercial practice handling e-commerce, online advertising, digital disputes, intellectual property and business matters.
Law Advocate Group, LLP
Beverly Hills general practice firm centered on civil and business litigation, with employment, real estate, entertainment and contract work for individuals and businesses.
The Law Offices of Ronald P. Slates, P.C.
Downtown Los Angeles firm that represents businesses and creditors in commercial debt collection and judgment enforcement, with related business litigation and real estate work.
Grant Shenon Almaraz, APLC
Sherman Oaks business law firm handling business and real estate litigation and transactions, outside general counsel work, data privacy matters and employer-side employment law.
LO & LO, Attorneys at Law
A family-run Alhambra firm founded in 1981 that handles business, real estate, estate planning, probate and bankruptcy matters, along with related civil litigation.
L.A. Tech & Media Law Firm
A Los Angeles technology and intellectual property firm handling trademark, copyright, entertainment, startup corporate work and related business litigation.
Kluewer Law
A creditors' rights litigation practice led by attorney Joshua Kluewer, handling commercial debt collection and judgment enforcement for businesses and other creditors.
Evanns Collection Law Firm
A Los Angeles firm led by attorney Richard O. Evanns that represents creditors in collecting and enforcing civil judgments.
MSD Lawyers
Family-owned Los Angeles firm handling employment, personal injury, business, and entertainment disputes on a contingency-fee basis.
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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.