Practice Areas

Practice Areas for our Experienced San Diego Business and Corporate Law Attorneys

The Watkins Firm are experienced business lawyers and corporate attorneys who provide comprehensive legal services centered on the needs of small, medium and large businesses as well as individuals in San Diego County. Whether we are helping you with a business transaction or a dispute, our lawyers collaborate closely to make sure we are meeting our clients’ needs. What are our practice areas in San Diego and Southern California?

We invite you to review the strong recommendations of our clients and contact us or call today to schedule a free, substantive consultation with our San Diego corporate law attorneys by calling 858-535-1511.

Comprehensive Business, Corporate and Litigation Resolution Practice Areas

What Are the 3 Most Important Takeaways Regarding the Practice Areas of Watkins Firm?

• The Watkins Firm brings 40+ years of experience serving the business, science and tech, real estate and medical / healthcare communities here in San Diego and across California.
• Your Watkins Firm attorney can provide valuable counsel and legal services at every step in the life of your company, or as a business owner.  We can help you to succeed faster, while avoiding the traps and pitfalls that have damaged other companies in your industry.
• Watkins Firm is a single source business and corporate law firm for everything from business formation, governance and compliance, contracts and transaction structuring, the protection of intellectual property and trade secrets, advice and defense of California employers (the hardest state in which to be an employer), to the resolution of any dispute (negotiation to class action defense), as well as the sale of your entity or a successful merger or acquisition.

Our experienced San Diego corporate attorneys have decades of experience in all aspects of federal, state and local corporate law and business law and provide sound counsel to shareholders, corporate executives, board members and business owners. Our corporate practice areas include:

• Business Law and Corporate Law
• Business Formation: LLC, S-Corporation, C-Corporation, Medical or Professional Corporation, Nonprofit or 501(c)(3)
• General Counsel: We serve as general business counsel and corporate counsel for businesses of all sizes and structures
• Employer Defense
• Unfair Competition and unfair business practices
• Mergers and Acquisitions: Whether you are trying to sell a company, its shares or assets, or bring two companies together, we will carefully review and advise you about your options. Our attorneys can also help you purchase an existing business.
• Breach of Contract and mitigating the damages in a contract breach as well as all Civil Contract Disputes
• Medical Practice and Healthcare Business Law
• Management Services Organizations (MSOs)
• Contract law: Our attorneys draft and negotiate contracts and assist clients involved in contract disputes.
• Shareholder disputes: We help shareholders assert their rights in derivative lawsuits and breach of fiduciary duty actions. We also defend companies and managers against shareholder actions.
• Business dissolution: When a corporation needs to reorganize as a new entity, or you need to dissolve an LLC our attorneys can help dissolve your company. At our firm, we are also knowledgeable about the unique legal and regulatory provisions affecting medical practices and providers.

Advice Tailored to Meet Your Business Needs

Our San Diego business law firm is dedicated to providing the services our corporate clients require in their day-to-day operations, including, but not limited to:

• Science and technology law: We are experienced with many issues affecting science and technology companies, ranging from intellectual property to employment.
• Water law: Our firm represents both water districts and property owners in water-related transactions and disputes.
• Real estate law: We represent buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, developers, contractors, investors and other parties to real estate transactions, partition actions, and litigation and serve as real estate local counsel.
• Construction law: Our attorneys handle cases involving construction contracts, construction defects and mechanic’s liens.

Contact Experienced San Diego Corporate Attorneys and Business Lawyers

These are the practice areas of the Watkins Firm.  We invite you to review the recommendations of our clients and contact the experienced San Diego corporate attorneys at the Watkins Firm or call for a free consultation today at 858-535-1511 and speak with one of our seasoned business lawyers. Learn how the Watkins Firm can help your corporation from formation through growth and acquisition, the challenges of disputes and ultimately the successful sale or succession of your holdings to the next generation.