Business Management and Corporate Governance Advice
Too many companies encounter unnecessary problems and disputes just when things should be at their best — you've made a successful entry into a new market, you've expanded your capital base, or several years of sustained growth have placed new opportunities within your reach. Now that there's something to fight over, too many corporate principals are tempted to do just that.
Contact a business lawyer at Margrave Celmins in Scottsdale to learn how you can plan for success as well as for avoiding risk. Our attorneys know how to anticipate the problems that are likely to come up when your company is performing well. Our management advice and attention to corporate governance issues can help keep problems from eroding your profits or threatening your stability.
Many business management and governance problems can be avoided
While such basic instruments as an LLC's operating agreement or corporate bylaws can address a wide range of problems before they come up, new circumstances or a significant change in the scale of your business can create new challenges for your management group. We can work with your equity group or management team to identify and analyze immediate or potential problems and revise your basic agreements to reflect the new realities.
Revised and updated company documents can address and resolve actual or impending problems through such instruments as:
- Revised shareholder, LLC or partnership agreements
- Written professional or executive employment contracts
- Amended buy-sell terms to reflect new asset valuations
- Management disability planning, executive insurance, and other instruments that address the possibility of the death or divorce of a key principal
- Renewed attention to shareholder rights after an expansion of your equity base
- Proper documentation of corporate resolutions, partnership and LLC meetings or other official business covered under Arizona law
An informal management style that succeeded in the early days of your company might need to be tightened up with proper attention to corporate governance issues. It does not pay to ignore the legal rules concerning the election of officers and directors, the timing and conduct of meetings, and the preservation of corporate records. Observing the business formalities will not only help protect your company and its officers from risk and liability, it can also protect your company's value in a sale or merger situation. It can also help with your taxes.
The business experience at Margrave Celmins runs both wide and deep. To learn how you can benefit from our management advice as well as our legal services, contact our AV-rated* law firm in Scottsdale.
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