Merline & Meacham, PA assists clients with planning for and forming new business entities, and advises business owners on matters of compliance and ongoing obligations.The firm also routinely assists clients with reorganizations and transactions involving business entities of all types.The firm’s business entity practice includes representing clients in connection with:
Limited liability companies (LLCs), including formation and drafting LLC operating agreements
Corporations, including formation, making subchapter S elections and drafting by-laws, minutes, share certificates and other organizational documents
Buy-sell agreements
Limited partnerships, general partnerships and limited liability partnerships, including formation and drafting partnership agreements
Professional associations and corporations
Statutory close corporations
Tax-free reorganizations
Entity conversions
Mergers and acquisitions
Asset sales
Stock, partnership or LLC membership interest acquisitions
The use of equity interests in business entities as compensation, including: compensatory stock options, incentive stock options, qualified and nonqualified stock options, and the issuance of partnership and LLC interests as compensation
Employment agreements, noncompetition agreements and lease agreements
Financing agreements, including promissory notes, security agreements, pledge agreements and venture capital agreements
All of the shareholders of Merline & Meacham, PA are certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court as specialists in taxation law.Merline & Meacham, PA’s attorneys routinely work as part of a team with our client’s financial advisors, business consultants, accountants, lenders and investment bankers.
812 East North Street, Greenville, South Carolina 29601 (864) 242-4080
