Corporate Practice.
Counsel for corporations, partnerships, LLCs, and LLPs across their full life cycle — formation, operation, reorganization, combination, and dissolution.
Fennemore combines strategic business judgment with the practical market and tax savvy needed to solve the problems business entities face every day. We help corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and limited liability partnerships handle their most challenging issues.
We counsel a wide range of business professionals — corporate boards and shareholders, general and limited partners, corporate officers and employees, and LLC managers and members. Whether we are helping an individual form a start-up, serving as general counsel to an established company contemplating a restructuring, or advising any other kind of business, our corporate attorneys bring the experience to get it done right — California depth backed by a full-service national firm.
What We Handle.
Formation, Operation & Reorganization.
All aspects of forming, running, and restructuring business entities — and the tax issues tied to each.
- Start-up and entity formation
- Ongoing operational counsel
- General counsel to established companies
- Restructuring and reorganization
- Tax issues across the entity’s life cycle
- Counsel to boards, shareholders, partners, officers, members, and managers
Liquidation & Dissolution.
Unwinding or separating a business when its owners decide it is time.
- Voluntary and involuntary dissolution
- Separating shareholders, partners, and LLC members
- Spin-offs and split-ups
- Reorganization as an alternative to dissolution
Mergers, Acquisitions & Asset Sales.
Representing every side of a deal, whether structured as a merger, acquisition, or asset transfer.
- Acquiring and acquired (disappearing) corporations
- Buyers, sellers, and investors
- Asset purchases and sales
- Spin-offs
- Dissident shareholders
Corporate Governance.
Advising owners on their rights and the rules that govern the entity.
- Voting rights and participation in management
- Rights to reports, dividends, and distributions
- Shareholder, partner, and member rights generally
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Business Transactions.
Contracts, commercial deals, and the broader transactional practice.
Partnership, Corporate & Special Entity Tax.
The tax side of entity formation, reorganization, and M&A.
Estate Planning Services.
Business succession planning for owners of closely held companies.
Civil Litigation.
Business and shareholder disputes when they reach the courtroom.
Federal Tax Services.
Federal tax planning and controversy work tied to corporate transactions.