Legal Business Services

Business, Corporate and Commercial Law

"Big City Business Law in Ocean County--Let Us Handle the Legal Needs of Your Business"

Whether you are buying, selling, merging or forming a business, proper planning is crucial to your future success. The legal procedures and documents can be complicated. You need attorneys with experience and expertise to guide you thorough the process. At CLDDS, our business attorneys offer clients years of experience in business, commercial and corporate law. We have successfully handled sales, purchases and mergers of multi-million dollar companies, and have formed start-up businesses that have become extremely successful. We can help you and your business become successful as well.

For example, if a client needs us to assist them with a Business Plan, we will:

Help them create a Business Plan
Analyze their business goals
Structure deals that will further their goals
Develop a Succession Plan to pass the torch to the next generation or buyer
Develop an ultimate exit strategy for the client

If the Business Plan requires the client to form a Corporation, Limited Liability Company or other Business Entity to further their goals, we will:

Determine the client's purpose and goals
Prepare Formation documents and file with the appropriate governmental offices

Prepare Stockholder/Member Agreements

Prepare Buy/Sell Agreements

Prepare Employment Agreements

Prepare Business Contracts

If the client, in furtherance of the Business Plan, needs to enter into the sale of the Business or merger with or acquisition of another Business, we will:

Research the Business
Obtain title searches
Assist with the Financing process
Negotiate the Deal
Prepare Contracts and Closing Documents
Negotiate Commercial, Office or Industrial Leases
Successfully Close the Deal

Our business attorneys also counsel and assist clients with many other business related matters including:

Selling, Purchasing and Financing Commercial Real Estate
Representing Doctors and Medical Practices and handling Separation Agreements and Employment Agreements
Reviewing, analyzing and preparing business and commercial Contracts, Employment Agreements and Leases
Helping clients find other Professional Services to assist with their Business transactions, including Accountants, Financial

Advisors, Bankers and Appraisers

Negotiating and resolving Business disputes
Pursuing and defending lawsuits when Business disputes cannot be resolved by negotiation
Assisting clients with the complicated world of Business Finance
Business dissolution or liquidation
Commercial Collections
Counseling Closely Held and Family Businesses
Assisting with Franchise transactions

In addition to conducting our Business practice throughout the State of New Jersey, several of our attorneys are also admitted to practice in other states including New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC.

Our attorneys are experienced business people as well as legal advisors. We have practical, real world business experience that compliments our excellent legal skills and causes us to be in touch with the day to day business and economic concerns of our clients. Many of our attorneys are also involved, on a voluntary basis, with local business and civic organizations such as Chambers of Commerce, political organizations, trade organizations and other groups which further complement and enhance the counsel that we offer our clients. We provide the complete package to clients who need patient and thorough guidance through the maze of business and legal issues, in an expeditious, cost efficient and value added manner.