What is the value of your San Diego business lawyers at the Watkins Firm to an entrepreneur, business owner or corporation? The Watkins Firm has served the California business and healthcare communities for more than four decades. Your San Diego business lawyers at the Watkins Firm 40+ years of experience serving the business, science and tech, real estate and medical / healthcare communities here in San Diego and across California. We work with our business clients from start up to the ultimate sale of their company, and counsel large corporations on all matters including governance and compliance.
Key Takeaways From Your San Diego Business Lawyers at the Watkins Firm:
- Your San Diego business lawyers at the Watkins Firm have formed and advised businesses small and large across most market sectors, from retail and the food industry to high tech, from healthcare and medical practices to defense contractors and software developers.
- Transactions are the foundation of business and well-crafted contracts are the essence of business transactions. Business contracts form the basis of business as a whole and the quality of your contracts will go a long way to forecasting the ultimate success of your efforts and transactions.
- Your San Diego business lawyers at the Watkins Firm have helped our clients through thousands and thousands of asset purchases, stock purchase deals and other mergers and acquisitions over our four decades of service.
Contracts are the Essence of Business Transactions
Transactions are the foundation of business and well-crafted contracts are the essence of business transactions. We provide business contracts that support successful relationships and guide transactions to a profitable conclusion. Business contracts form the basis of business as a whole and the quality of your contracts will go a long way to forecasting the ultimate success of your efforts and transactions.
Your San Diego business lawyers at the Watkins Firm start with a proprietary library of contracts we’ve developed, updated and enhances over the years. They are proven and battle tested, and already tailored for business here in California. We do not need to go to the time and expense of drafting a contract from scratch. We work to customize corporate documents and contracts to your unique business and operational strategies.
Our carefully crafted and customized business contracts leave no room for ambiguity, and clearly establish not only the roles and expectations of the parties but the potential challenges that might arise and how those issues will be handled. Expensive business litigation comes out of unclear contracts and agreements. When a business contract is well constructed, there is little room for expensive, time-consuming litigation when a breach of contract occurs.
This provides our clients with contracts which are much stronger, thorough and customized when compared to downloaded forms while preserving cost-efficiency for your budget.
Asset Purchases, Mergers and Acquisitions
Your San Diego business lawyers at the Watkins Firm have helped our clients through thousands and thousands of asset purchases, stock purchase deals and other mergers and acquisitions over our four decades of service. The key to these transactions is our proprietary due diligence and checklists, developed and enhanced through many transactions. Whether your intention is to purchase a few utility trucks from a competitor or add several companies across the nation to grow your business, the Watkins Firm has been through it and provides insight, risk mitigation, analysis and contracting.
Pro-Tip: “We have of course, very knowledgeable attorneys, but we also have a higher percentage of support staff, paralegals, administrators in house, HR people so that when our clients have a basic question about employment practices and they don’t want to spend the high attorney rate, they can contact one of our administrators or one of our paralegals and ask a question, cost them a lot less money. And everybody here has been working on these cases for years and years. So the knowledge might not be at the fingertips of the employer, but we answer that same question every week for one of our clients.
After 35 years of doing this and after thousands of different companies, a lawyer tends to know more about how to run a business than most people would expect. We go to college for seven years, but we learned our whole career from other people’s mistakes and other people’s successes.When they come in, they tell us the story and we ask them questions about what kind of business this is going to be – we want to know from a lawyer’s perspective. Is this a high risk business? Is this a trending business? Is this a highly regulated business, those kind of things. So we can advise. And then we ask about other things and what they’re doing and just to get a gauge on how sophisticated they are or how unsophisticated they are so we can help.
We’ve had clients for decades. And when our clients do well, our attorneys feel like they’re doing well outside of whether they’re getting paid a whole bunch of money or not or fees or anything. We have long term clients. And our attorneys really feel good when things turn out for them because, on the litigation side, they go through stress and we go through stress. And when we resolve a dispute and our clients are happy, we’re happy. And we’re proud to help their transactions to flow smoothly.
Our clients have owned their company for years and years and years, and they want to sell it. They believe they have a good deal on the table and we want to do everything we can to make sure that goes smoothly. And our client gets all of their benefits of the bargain, everything they wanted. We want to do our best to make sure they get that. And if it happens and they’re happy, then we are proud. We’re very proud and we’re happy for them. So this combined knowing someone for 30+ years, their highs and lows, their difficult times, their good times, you can imagine, you really feel a bond for your clients.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner
Your San Diego Business Lawyers at the Watkins Firm are Like a Business Coach
Your San Diego business lawyers at the Watkins Firm often use the analogy of an Olympic or professional athlete. Even the best and most skilled athletic performers (as well as wealthy) in the world need a coach. We provide sound counsel and advice to our business clients as general counsel. Our clients can learn from the experience of more than four decades to avoid the mistakes that have set back other companies, and to draw on the successful strategies that ensure profitable growth and ultimate accomplishment of your business goals.
What is the value of your experienced San Diego business attorneys at the Watkins Firm to an entrepreneur, business owner or corporation? In many cases it’s a large portion of the value of your business. When compared to the small investments in our fees over the years, the return on that investment in the form of cash revenues and the valuation of your business is far higher than most any commercial or financial investment you could make.
We invite you to review our podcast, Episode 19 – Your Business Attorney is a Valuable Partner, as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.
Meet Daniel Watkins:
Daniel W. Watkins is a true people person who sincerely listens. He cares deeply about what others are going through. Dan enjoys digging into the facts and finding creative solutions to problems. He contributes his insights candidly and constructively.
Dan’s interest in people make him deeply invested in every relationship and his exuberant personality makes him a true litigator. Dan fights for his clients with a fierce and calculated commitment.
Dan has practiced in the areas of business, medical practices and healthcare business, high tech/science, real estate and employment defense law since 1987. He is a trusted litigation strategist and true trial attorney with over 50 jury and bench trials to his credit. Dan has successfully represented both large companies and individuals and achieved substantial victories in well-publicized trials throughout California and the U.S.
He is experienced in business and corporate formation and administration, as well as all forms of alternative dispute resolution, including binding arbitration and mediation.
THE ROAD TO BECOMING A BUSINESS LAWYER AND LITIGATOR
Dan has almost 40 years of experience working with, for and against some of the largest insurance companies in the country. He has successfully tried and litigated cases in the areas of Healthcare Compliance, Commercial Litigation, Unfair Business Practices, Fraud, Breach of Contract, Battery, Premises Liability, Product Defect, Medical Malpractice, Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Construction Defect, as well as Unfair Competition, Defamation, and Trade Secrets.
In December 2003, Dan commenced litigation against Health South Surgery Centers-West, Inc and its’ subsidiaries, exposing the company’s extensive mismanagement and misconduct of its’ surgery centers. Dan has also been asked by some of California’s largest municipalities and corporations to conduct legally required investigations into matters involving alleged employment discrimination and harassment.
