Do you need a great California business attorney? Why is it important for every California business to have an experienced, proven business attorney?  What would professional athletes be like without an effective coach?  How can you expand your company and grow new opportunities?

Business owners are professionals who are pursuing their goals and dreams, and it is important for their LLCs or corporations to have the benefit of an experienced and capable coach – a general business advisor and counsel.  The San Diego business attorneys at the Watkins Firm have owned businesses and advised business owners here in San Diego and across the State of California for more than four decades.  We have helped literally thousands of area businesses through every stage of their business career:

• Start-up / Formation
• Bringing in New Investors / Working Capital
• Employment Issues / Employer Defense
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Saving a Business
• Selling an LLC or Corporation

No matter where your business is in the course of its business life, you need a great California business attorney.  Our attorneys provide sound advice based on the experience and expertise gained from helping thousands of businesses just like yours in your industry.  Odds are we haven’t just helped someone in your field, we’ve worked with several companies just like yours.

We can advise you at every step along the way.  We help you to avoid the pitfalls and challenges that have derailed other businesses.  We ensure that your LLC or corporation maintains the governance and compliance required to protect the corporate veil.  Our clients value the practical advice we bring to everyday business matters, as well as the strong legal support we provide when the chips are down.

Pro-Tip: “After 40+ 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. And so the three core things that I’ve come away with is if you’re going to have a business, you should have an experienced business attorney. You should have a banker (source of finances) and you should have a CPA. Most people are kind of clueless about what a CPA does, not for taxes but for advising you on how to be profitable.

This is about where your business is going to go. It’s about the journey.  It’s about success, and programming it in from the beginning and at every step along the way.

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.

And how to structure a business so that if they need to bring people in down the road, it’s set up to do that. Or more importantly, how’s this all going to end? Exit strategy. We talk about one year, five year, 10 year plans. We just try to get a feel for where they’re going, what their game plan is. And if they don’t have a game plan, we tell them how other companies have done it and give them a menu of things that they might want to think about.

 We advise starting companies all the time and then later on when they have trouble or they have success and they want to move to the next level, we have the background about, and we can help.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner

If you are seeking an experienced and proven California business attorney 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.

Let’s get to know one another, and discuss how the Watkins Firm can help your company to survive and thrive.