Your San Diego corporate law attorney at the Watkins Firm is prepared to guide you through every aspect of forming, growing, merging and/or selling a San Diego and Southern California corporation.
As deal makers, we are in the business of figuring out how to get business transactions across the finish line in the face of ‘deal breakers.’ We also represent individuals and companies who are forming new businesses, and require assistance in properly structuring their new entities (and avoiding legal pitfalls) from inception. It is a privilege to be able to form a relationship with any start-up company or corporation and amazing to assist with the growth and development of our client’s companies over time.
As your corporate attorneys, the Watkins Firm provides legal services from formation and entity selection through the development and implementation of contracts and resolving any disputes which arise along the way. We guide corporations as employers ensuring that they fulfill all of the requirements specified in federal, state and local laws and regulations.
What is the essence of a corporation and why do you need an experienced and proven corporate lawyer?
The Protections of the Corporate Veil
Your corporate entity exists to separate you, the individual person (member, shareholder, officer), from the separate legal entity: the corporation. In legal circles we describe this as the “corporate veil.” The corporate entity provides valuable protections to your personal money and assets from the creditors and liabilities of the company. There are important steps which must be diligently maintained in order to preserve the protections of the corporate veil while protecting your personal money and assets.
What is Corporate Governance and Compliance?
What is corporate governance and compliance and how can the San Diego corporate law attorneys at the Watkins Firm help your corporation or LLC to remain compliant?
Once a company is formed, there are many small details which must be regularly managed to protect the corporate veil and reduce exposure to expensive litigation or regulatory violations. The Watkins Firm will review your corporate filings, processes and documents to ensure legal and regulatory compliance. We help to keep your corporate documents, bylaws, shareholder agreements and/or operating agreements up to date and in agreement with one another.
We also work with corporate boards, executives and management to bring them up to speed on new developments in Federal and California corporate law as well as best employment practices. We work with our clients to ensure a strategy is in place to effectively train and monitor all employees of your company to ensure they are conducting themselves in a legal and ethical manner.
The benefits of corporate governance and compliance may seem like small issues compared to other corporate objectives. However, as your San Diego corporate law attorney, the Watkins firm’s reliable advice and counsel helps to keep your corporation running in an optimal manner for a minimum cost while reducing exposure.
Experienced San Diego Mergers and Acquisitions Attorneys
The experienced San Diego mergers and acquisitions attorneys at the Watkins Firm provide valuable advice, counsel and legal services to your corporation as you work through joint ventures, asset purchase transactions, the acquisition of another company through a stock purchase agreement or the merger of your corporate entity with another. Each of these transactions is legally and financially fraught with risk and opportunity.
Your San Diego Corporate Law Attorney at the Watkins Firm
What does your San Diego corporate law attorney at the Watkins Firm bring to the table? We have almost four decades of proven success serving the San Diego and Southern California businesses and medical/healthcare entities. As your business coach and advisor, we draw upon previous successful experience in thousands of similar situations and transactions. We have achieved tremendous victories at trial. We have helped to form thousands of successful Southern California businesses.
We are here to serve and protect your corporation from the moment of entity formation through every transaction of your business. We provide consistent and proven advice for and in the defense of California employers. We resolve corporate disputes in a timely, efficient manner. We work to ensure effective corporate governance and compliance is met and your corporation is prepared to meet the objectives you’ve established, and successfully accomplish them.
We invite you to review the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.
