Are you searching for experienced San Diego corporate law firm to provide sound advice and legal counsel?  Corporate law in San Diego and throughout the State of California is about growing the company and increasing its value, protecting the corporate entity and planning for success while avoiding and/or resolving disputes and litigation.

Key Takeaways Regarding an Experienced San Diego Corporate Law Firm

• Corporate law is about protecting the integrity of the corporate veil, sustaining and increasing the value of the company, and avoiding or resolving disputes and lawsuits.
• Governance and compliance is the process of reviewing all aspects of the corporation and the protections of the corporate veil, as well as compliance with all federal, state and local laws and ordinances.
• Resolving corporate disputes and lawsuits is an unfortunate reality for any successful business.  Your corporate law firm should have an experienced, proven litigation team who works in a timely and cost-efficient manner.

The Watkins firm has provided corporate legal services for 40+ years, serving the business, science and tech, real estate and medical / healthcare communities here in San Diego and across California.  We have literally helped tens of thousands of business entities form their company, hire and manage all requirements and responsibilities of a California employer, customize business contracts and checklists from our large, proprietary library, and manage their business transactions.  We work with clients from the inception of their business or through the development of corporate documents including bylaws, shareholders’ agreements, and buy/sell agreements to manage the relationship between the corporation’s owners, shareholders and investors.  We protect the corporate veil through comprehensive corporate governance and compliance strategies.

Staying Current – Governance and Compliance

Our experienced San Diego corporate law attorneys understand the importance of staying current while maintaining effective corporate governance and compliance.  We guide our clients through the ever-changing developments and challenges of corporate life.  We help to ensure your company maintains the protections of the corporate veil while providing sound legal counsel in all aspects of a corporations life, from business formation through operations, mergers and acquisitions, contracting, shareholder disputes and business litigation.

We help our business clients to understand the issues of protecting the corporate entity and planning for success and the pitfalls which have derailed businesses similar to their own.

Pro-Tip: “If you’re a company owner and you are trying to do everything right in the best way you can for your company, you’re going to have general or corporate counsel. You probably already do, and that attorney or couple of attorneys or law firm will advise you on things that have to do with your business, your field specifically, and in general. If you go get a corporate or company council and you say, I want you to form my company, or I want you to advise me on my corporate structure, they’re not going to charge you pretty much money. If they have experience, they’re going to look at your corporate structure, spend maybe a couple hours, maybe four hours max.

You might spend a thousand dollars and you’ll have somebody that now knows your business structure, knows your goals, knows what you’re trying to achieve, and can worry for you. They already know what to worry about. They’ve had a thousand clients just like you, go down that same road and seeing the horror stories and the successes, and they can tell you, ‘oh, I like what you’re doing here. Or Maybe you should watch for that.’ And you can pick up the phone and it costs you less than probably your cable bill per month. And you’ve got someone there who can give you advice that’ll save you tens of thousands of dollars or make you hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And that’s a critical element of a corporate counsel. You want someone with experience, someone who’s been there, done that.  Someone who sets you free and you get to do what you do best and not worry about doing something that you didn’t even know about that got you in trouble. if we’re forming them, then we help them select the right kind of company with their goals in mind, Or if they’re merging or buying something else, if they’re buying and selling, that’s different. We don’t have to do entity selection. We don’t have to choose between what kind of entity. They’re already something, but we give them advice on whether they should change or how to expand it or what they can and can’t do with their company. If they’re in the merger and acquisition stage, then it’s a whole different list of things we’re going to talk to them about and work them up, get them set and ready to go to do the best they can.

Once our lawyers here get background on a company, know generally what they’re doing, then we’re ready for any kind of questions they may have. We don’t want to fix anything that’s not broken. We don’t want to go in there and say, you need to do this. You’re doing this all wrong. No, if they’re making a profit, they’re doing it all right. And if there’s something they’re concerned about, we’ll help them address it. But any of the main issues, responsibilities as an employer, business, commercial contracts, all those will lead us to general background. And that means they don’t have to teach us or pay us to learn their general background for any questions they have in the future. We’ll get that at the first consultation. We’ll know what’s going on. And so if they come back and say, okay, you just handled my consumer or my lease or my independent contractor agreements, I got this other issue. We won’t have to say, oh, I need a couple hours of your time to get to know what you do. We’ll know!” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

Experienced San Diego Corporate Law Attorneys Serve Your Company Through Every Stage of It’s Life

We work with clients to manage growth through mergers and acquisitions including stock purchase or asset purchase transactions.

We work efficiently to resolve shareholder and business to business disputes with our eyes firmly fixed on the objectives of the corporation and ultimately the disposition of the company and its ownership.  You can rely on our firm as a single source of legal support and business guidance.  We have helped thousands of businesses across more than four decades here in San Diego and throughout California.  You will have access to the power and breadth of services of a large law firm with the responsiveness and efficiency of a boutique law practice.

Are you searching for experienced San Diego corporate law firm with a proven track record across decades of protecting the corporate entity while providing sound counsel to ensure success in business? We invite you to review our podcast Episode 38 – What is a General Counsel as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.