Are you searching for proven and trusted business lawyers in San Diego or throughout California?  The Watkins Firm has decades of service to the San Diego business community.  Our experienced business attorneys provide extensive legal services to businesses of all sizes.  We manage all aspects of business and corporate law, from business formation through the ultimate disposition of your company or interests.  We help entrepreneurs who are looking to buy a business or form a new entity.  We help business owners who wish to sell their companies or acquire part or all of another company.

The proven and trusted business lawyers in San Diego at the Watkins Firm handle all transactional business legal requirements.  We help to negotiate transactions, asset purchase agreements, stock purchases and mergers and acquisitions to protect the interests of our clients and ensure the best possible outcome based upon their goals and objectives.  We carefully craft business contracts, employment agreements, trade secret and non-disclosure agreements as well as all employment related documents such as the employee handbook and policies and procedures.  We work with our corporate clients to ensure effective governance and compliance to protect the integrity of the corporate veil and to ensure compliance with all federal, state and local laws, regulations and ordinances.

We resolve all forms of disputes, including but not limited to:

• Breach of Contract
• Partnership Disputes
• Disputes Between Members of an LLC
• Shareholder Disputes
• Business Litigation

Our unique approach to disputes and litigation ensures our client’s interests are protected and disputes are resolved quickly and in a cost-efficient manner.

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 searching for proven and trusted business attorneys in San Diego we invite you to review our podcast Episode 19 – Your Business Attorneys 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. Ask about our general business counsel services and how you can leverage our experience, legal skill and efficiency to build and grow your San Diego business.