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Business Entities

We assist clients with planning for, structuring, and forming new business entities – and advise business owners on matters of compliance and ongoing reporting obligations. The firm also 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, 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 professional corporations
  • Statutory close corporations
  • Tax-free reorganizations
  • Entity conversions
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Asset sales and acquisitions
  • Stock, partnership or LLC membership interest, sales and 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
  • Drafting and reviewing employment agreements, noncompetition agreements and lease agreements
  • Drafting and reviewing financing agreements, including promissory notes, security agreements, pledge agreements and venture capital agreements
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  • Business Entities
  • Charitable Planning
  • Employee Benefits/ERISA
  • Estate and Gift Taxes
  • Estate Planning
  • Income Tax Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Non-Profit/Tax Exempt
  • Probate/Estate Admin.
  • Tax Controversies
  • Wills and Trusts

Greenville Office

812 East North Street, Greenville, SC 29601

Phone: 864.242.4080

Fax: 864.242.5758

Columbia Office

190 Knox Abbott Drive, Suite 3B, Cayce, SC 29033

Phone: 803.814.0027

Fax: 803.658.4732

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    • Our Firm
    • Practice Areas
      • Business Entities
      • Charitable Planning
      • Employee Benefits/ERISA
      • Estate and Gift Taxes
      • Estate Planning
      • Income Tax Law
      • Mergers and Acquisitions
      • Non-Profit/Tax Exempt
      • Probate/Estate Admin.
      • Tax Controversies
      • Wills and Trusts
    • Attorneys
      • Robert E. August
      • Jonathan R. Colao
      • Phillip J. Martin
      • Keith G. Meacham
      • W. Verne McGough, Jr.
      • Andrew D. Merline
      • David A. Merline, Jr.
      • Marie Monroe
      • J. Aaron Nelson, Jr.
      • Douglas B. O’Neal
      • David M. Thompson
    • Firm News
    • Resources