Practice Area
From the LLC you form this month to the sale you close in ten years, we are the outside general counsel for small and mid-sized businesses across Queens.
Most of our business clients are not in a position to keep a lawyer on staff. They are contractors, restaurant groups, medical practices, importers, logistics companies and family businesses along Roosevelt Avenue and Northern Boulevard — companies with real payrolls and real contracts, and no in-house legal department to read them.
That is the role we fill. We form the entity, paper the relationships between the people who own it, review what gets signed, and stay reachable when something goes wrong. Because the same attorneys handle your litigation, your lease and your lender, nothing has to be explained twice.
Free initial consultation.
Thirty minutes with the attorney who would handle the matter — not an intake screener. Call 000-000-000 or send us the details through the contact form.
How we help
LLCs, S and C corporations, professional entities and partnerships — filed correctly, with operating agreements and bylaws that actually reflect the deal.
Buy-sell terms, capital calls, deadlock provisions and exit mechanics agreed while everyone is still friendly.
Supply, distribution, services, licensing and non-disclosure agreements drafted, negotiated and reviewed on a schedule that fits the deal.
Tenant-side and landlord-side negotiation of retail, office and industrial leases, including good-guy guaranties.
Asset and stock deals from letter of intent through diligence, purchase agreement and closing.
Liquor licenses, DCWP licenses, sidewalk café permits and the approvals a Queens storefront actually needs.
When to call us
If you are not sure whether your situation belongs on that list, call anyway. Telling you that you do not need a lawyer is free, and we would rather do that than take a matter that should not exist.
Attorneys in this practice
Managing Partner
Margaret founded the firm's business practice in 1998 and has spent twenty-five years advising Queens companies through formation, growth, financing and sale. She chairs the firm's management committee and still handles closings herself.
Partner
Priya advises community banks, credit unions and lenders on regulatory compliance, loan documentation and workouts. She came to the firm after eight years in a Manhattan financial institutions group.
Partner
Daniel heads the litigation and civil defense group. He has tried cases in New York Supreme Court and the federal district courts, and handles the firm's most contested commercial disputes.
Questions
It depends on how you will be taxed, whether you will bring on investors, and what your industry requires. For most owner-operated Queens businesses an LLC is simpler and cheaper to maintain, but a corporation can be the better answer where outside investment or particular tax treatment is in view. We talk it through in the first meeting and file whichever fits.
Formation work is quoted as a flat fee once we know the entity type, the number of owners and whether an operating agreement is needed. You will have the number in writing before we begin, and it will not move unless the scope does.
Yes, and that is one of the most common calls we get. Send it over before you sign. A contract review is usually a short, fixed-fee engagement, and it is a great deal cheaper than the litigation that a bad clause produces.
Tell us what is going on. The first consultation is free, it is with the attorney who would handle your matter, and there is no obligation afterwards.