Practice Areas
Business Buy/Sell
SLG represents clients on all aspects of the merger and acquisition (M&A) and business buy-sell process, including: process planning and preparation; broker representation contracts; owner & management buy-ins & buy-outs; private equity recapitalizations; structure: Asset vs. Stock transactions; letters of intent; due diligence; and drafting and reviewing definitive deal agreements; and post-closing and integration matters.
Employment
SLG advises on all aspects of employment including: hiring and related documentation; invention assignment and confidentiality agreements; non-competition and non-solicitation agreements; employee handbooks/manuals; offer letters, termination and severance; protection of trade secrets from departing employees; compensation matters including option agreements, profit sharing and bonus plans; regulatory compliance, including responding to administrative action.
Third Party Agreements
The terms of your agreements with vendors, suppliers, referral sources, dealers and independent contractors (“third parties”) can often be a springboard to growth, or leave you over the barrel. Once armed with a thorough understanding of your business, markets and the third party relationship, we can draft agreements that anticipate contingency scenarios, put the leverage in your hands, and sidestep nasty disputes that interrupt your momentum.
Intellectual Property
What’s in a name? A logo? Your customer lists, new product plans, and formulae for doing business? Sometimes everything. We help companies develop a defensible strategy for their “secret sauce” including: protection of trade secrets; securing rights in intellectual property assets, including inventions and trademarks; and asserting and defending rights in your intellectual property
Commercial Disputes
SLG has successfully resolved hundreds of commercial disputes. These matters require careful and customized strategies and execution, often involving relationships the business wants to preserve. We start with “early case assessment” to weight the strengths & weaknesses of the client position, then develop options for resolution. If and when necessary, we interview, assess “fit”, and associate-in highly experienced commercial litigation firms, while continuing to oversee the process to maximize efficiencies and minimize budget expenditure.
Commercial Real Estate/ facility leasing
Land and facilities are critical assets for every business, whether they are owned (by the company or a related party) or leased. How you structure and document these are critical to your long and short-term strategies, key factors in enterprise value (i.e. when you sell the company). We work closely with clients to protect their interests against various future scenarios to ensure maximum flexibility and minimal disruption on the real estate side of the business.
WORK-OUTS AND COMPLEX FINANCING MATTERS
Whether its a Boeing supply chain back-up, or COVID-related closures, from time to time, businesses encounter major disruptions that jeopardize their ability to service their debt. SLG represents clients in restructuring senior and subordinated debt, including negotiating forbearance agreements with lenders and landlords.
DENTAL PRACTICE ADVISORY
SLG has extensive experience advising on all aspects of dental practice operations, including: planning for & executing practice sales; practice acquisition searches, financing & negotiating the practice purchase; structuring and negotiating associate contracts; and employment matters such as compliance, hiring/firing, and best practices for policies & procedures.