All businesses aim to increase profits. Mr. O’Brien can assist you in safeguarding both your business profits as well as your personal assets while you focus on expanding your company.
Mr. O’Brien frequently acts as the general counsel for a variety of businesses. He pays attention to each client’s needs and goals to understand their business operations and particular concerns. To help clients develop and implement innovative, cost-effective solutions for issues that businesses and their owners encounter, Mr. O’Brien uses his knowledge to offer strategic counsel.
Company Formation: Mr. O’Brien carefully considers the needs of his company clients before recommending the entity type that will work best for them. The choice is influenced by the business’s niche, growth strategies, capital structure, and tax implications. He assists in educating new business owners and recommends structuring the entity in a way that offers the best tax benefits and permits the most significant profit and growth. He creates shareholder and operating agreements with buy/sell clauses to cover unforeseen circumstances. He helps clients choose the right equity and tax structure to maximize asset and liability protection, cut administrative costs, and operate in the most tax-efficient way possible.
Raising Capital: Mr. O’Brien has a wealth of knowledge in the securities industry, mainly dealing with small and medium-sized firms. Through things like promissory notes and private equity offerings, he has assisted clients in raising financing for their enterprises. He constructs a means for businesses to raise desperately needed funding while staying within the bounds of the securities rules and registration exemptions.
Mergers & Acquisitions: Mr. O’Brien has the knowledge and skills to manage every part of the transaction, whether you want to buy a new business or sell yours. He has handled the purchase and selling of numerous small and large companies worth millions of dollars. To reduce any potential tax repercussions, he counsels business customers on how to structure company transactions.
Licensing & Franchising: Mr. O’Brien helps clients by giving advice on licensing and brand protection issues, creating licensing agreements, and registering trademarks. He has also evaluated, negotiated, and created several franchise agreements for clients looking to buy or sell a franchise.
Contract Negotiation: In discussions and mediation, Mr. O’Brien has years of expertise representing clients. Regardless of the type of contract, Mr. O’Brien may assist in analyzing the circumstance, the proposed contract provisions, and the parties’ relative bargaining positions to develop a plan of action to meet the clients’ objectives. He puts substantial effort into getting clients the greatest outcome. In addition to negotiating to obtain the best possible outcome for clients, he frequently manages to achieve a win-win outcome for all parties by identifying and adding value where none previously existed.
Trade Secrets: Clients’ danger increases as organizations become more technologically advanced. Salespeople and customer service representatives frequently depart and then try to steal clients’ or corporate data. Mr. O’Brien has effectively handled many instances involving the theft of trade secrets, unfair competition, and tortious interference with contractual and commercial relationships. In addition, Mr. O’Brien has a track record of successfully handling matters involving restrictive covenants, such as non-compete, non-solicitation, non-disclosure, and non-disparagement agreements, in employment and company sale contexts.
