Dupage Business Attorneys | Corporate Lawyers, Dupage County IL

It is important to have an ongoing relationship with your business attorney.  It is typically better for your bottom line to consult your attorney early and often in order to cost-effectively get ahead of any potential legal issues.  We recommend that you contact our DuPage business attorneys if any of the following needs arise:

1. ‍It is important to have an ongoing relationship with your business attorney.  It is typically better for your bottom line to consult your attorney early and often in order to cost-effectively get ahead of any potential legal issues.  We recommend that you contact our DuPage business attorneys if any of the following needs arise:
2. ‍Incorporating Your Business: Our DuPage corporate attorneys will discuss the differences between LLCs and S-Corps and help you select the corporate entity that will be most advantageous for your particular circumstances.  We will also assist you in ensuring that proper corporate formalities are followed to allow you to take advantage of the liability protections and self-employment tax advantages of incorporating, such as drafting your bylaws and initial meeting minutes and assisting you in obtaining an EIN Number, filing an S-Corp election and registering with the appropriate government agencies. 
3. ‍Annual Maintenance: Our DuPage business attorneys can work with you to prepare and file your corporation's or LLC's annual report with the Illinois Secretary of State as well as prepare your annual shareholder and director meeting minutes.  
4. ‍Contract Drafting & Review:  Any time you have a significant business interaction with anyone, you should have a written contract drafted or reviewed by your business attorney.  Our DuPage contract lawyers can assist you by preparing a form contract for your customers, your lease, contracts with third party vendors and business associates, partnership and executive compensation agreements, asset and stock purchase agreements, and buy-sell agreements among your partners. 
5. ‍Intellectual Property, Trademark, and Copyright:  You are working hard to build your brand.  Our DuPage County business lawyers will ensure that you retain the rights to your name and logo by filing a trademark application on your behalf.  We will protect your creative works, such as writings and software through copyright.  Your ideas are your business' greatest asset.  Our DuPage business attorneys will make sure that you retain the rights to them. 
6. ‍Business Purchases & Sales:  If you are buying or selling some or all of the stock in your business or the assets of your business, it is important to have an attorney draft or review the stock purchase agreement or asset purchase agreement to ensure that you get the benefit of your bargain and that the potential for litigation after the fact is minimized. 
7. ‍Rewarding Key Employees & Executives:  When your business is running smoothly, our DuPage County business lawyers can help you keep it that way by assisting you in structuring executive compensation contracts and profit sharing plans.  We will advise you on creative strategies to keep your key people in place for the long term.  
8. ‍Business Disputes:  Not all business lawyers also have extensive experience in commercial dispute resolution and litigation.  We do.  If you have a dispute with a customer, an employee, your landlord, or a third party with whom you have contracted, our DuPage business attorneys have the litigation skill to help you favorably resolve the dispute as cost-effectively and quickly as possible. 
9. ‍Exit Strategies: It is never too early to start planning your exit strategy.  Whether you would like to package your business for sale or transfer shares of the business to a key employee or family member over time, our experienced DuPage business lawyers will help you devise a long-term plan and draft the necessary contracts to see your exit strategy through.  
10. ‍Estate Planning: You have worked hard to build your business.  With experience in both business law and estate planning, our DuPage business lawyers are uniquely positioned to integrate your business plan with your estate plan to ensure that your loved ones, and not probate attorneys or the government, receive the benefit of your hard work.  

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