Mooney McGinn LLP serves the corporate and business needs of a broad spectrum of businesses in Massachusetts. Our clients range from small closely-held corporations, or partnerships, to large regional, national and international corporations and partnerships. Whether we represent our clients on a continuing basis or as special counsel on a specific matter or transaction, our goal is to understand and achieve their legal and business objectives.
- Business Formation
- Business Transactions and Business Contracts
- Buying and Selling a Business
- Business Litigation
- Tax Advisory Services For Corporations and Partnerships
- Technology Companies and IP Property Licensing
- International Practice
Our Corporate Services and Entrepreneurial Services groups assist clients in all aspects of new and emerging businesses. Our firm provides legal services to business clients in a broad range of matters, including:
Business Formation: Our lawyers advise clients on the many issues that should be considered when forming a business, such as whether a business should be operated as a proprietorship, a partnership, a limited liability company, or a corporation; whether the client should elect "S" Corporation status; whether subsidiaries should be formed; and the tax, financial and liability ramifications of these decisions.
Business Transactions and Business Contracts: We have extensive experience in drafting and negotiating various types of business contracts, including management and employment agreements, non-competition and protection of trade secret contracts, shipping documents, bills of sale, product warranties, leases and production requirement agreements.
Mergers and Acquisitions: When a business decides to expand through acquisition or merger, issues relating to tax planning, capital and debt financing, asset evaluation, transactional negotiations, and credit considerations require the services of attorneys who are experienced and knowledgeable in these areas.
Corporate Finance: We regularly represent companies in debt and equity financing transactions, including conventional commercial borrowing, non-bank institutional debt transactions, public and private stock offerings, ESOP transactions, and negotiated venture capital financings.
Business Litigation: In most circumstances, law suits involving employer-employee matters, performance of business contracts, breach of warranty claims, collection of accounts receivable, franchise or marketing disputes, and borrowing transactions require an experienced trial lawyer and a practical business attorney. With Mooney McGinn LLP, the client gets both.
Technology Companies and IP Property Licensing: Effective and flexible licensing is critical to building profitable business models for all technology companies. We help technology companies large and small, to create and maintain value and advantage through the development, commercialization, licensing-in, licensing-out and protection of intellectual property.
Tax Advisory Services for Corporations and Partnerships: There is a tax aspect to almost every corporate transaction. Sometimes this tax issue may be clear, but more important are the significant tax issues that are often not obvious to anyone not trained as a tax lawyer. The full tax ramifications of business transactions need careful analysis and consideration of the situation and circumstances and the needs of the participants. Mooney McGinn's tax knowledge is at the core of our transactional practice. We counsel on the full range of federal, state and international tax issues that arise in structuring transactions. We add significant value to these transactions by creating tax-efficient structures and by providing innovative, practical solutions to the tax issues that challenge our clients.
International Practice: A number of our business clients conduct their activities throughout the United States and in foreign countries. Assisting them with contractual documents, financing and credit terms, and shipment and delivery of goods to North America, South America, the European Community, and Pacific Rim nations is a component of our services. We can help domestic businesses starting out in the international marketplace seek out effective strategic partnerships and complete documentation in the form required by a foreign partner to make transactions work.
Our attorneys have significant experience in more complex corporate, business and financial transactions, including:
- Entity acquisitions with values ranging from less than $1,000,000 to more than $100,000,000;
- short- and long-term corporate financial arrangements such as lines of credit, revolving loans, warehouse loans, asset-based loans, secured corporate debt issuance, corporate debentures and venture capital transactions;
- public and private stock and equity offerings - interstate and intrastate;
- purchases and sales of businesses in both asset-based and stock-based transactions;
Our attorneys are available to provide advice and counsel on varied corporate planning and governance issues for businesses, including those related to:
- reorganizations, mergers and consolidations;
- shareholder's rights plans, poison pills and other corporate defensive measures;
- director, officer and lender liability issues; and annual meeting of directors and shareholders of publicly owned corporations.
Our constant objective is to provide a timely solution or a completed transaction at a reasonable cost to our client. Mooney McGinn LLP offers its business clients responsiveness, the highest quality of work, and a commitment to accomplishing these goals in the most economical way possible.
Contact Mooney McGinn LLP
Mooney McGinn LLP has two Massachusetts offices to serve our clients - in Danvers and in Cambridge. We offer an initial phone consultation to all new clients.
Call our attorneys in Cambridge at 617-245-8080, in Danvers at 978-767-4221, or contact us by e-mail via the Contact Us page.
