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- Corporate LawWe are a highly respected business law firm, providing general and specialized services including entity formation, securities, tax, labor and employment law, regulatory compliance, technology licensing, import/export licensing, shareholder agreements and exit strategies.
- Mergers and AcquisitionsWe negotiate and document a wide variety of public and private debt and/or equity offerings and other sophisticated business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, collaboration agreements, spin-offs and re-organizations.
- Business DisputesFerris & Britton is experienced and result-oriented in litigating business disputes. Litigation is more than going to trial, it includes an entire, structured process of clarifying issues, uncovering relevant facts and evaluating the relative strengths of competing claims. Many lawsuits are resolved without going to trial because the litigation process, when well-managed, brings issues into sharp focus, enabling the parties, with help and advice of counsel, to craft resolutions best suited to their objectives. Ferris & Britton employs a creative, practical and affordable approach to resolving business disputes. We are dedicated to finding effective, economical solutions to problems.
- Business TransactionsStructuring of major corporate and commercial transactions, including mergers, reverse triangular mergers, spin-offs, leveraged buyouts, intra-family transfers and stock or asset sales
- Unfair CompetitionWe specialize in handling high stakes and other sensitive litigation for businesses, including, but not limited to contracts and related types of claims, employment termination and discrimination, business ownership disputes, antitrust and other unfair competition claims and regulatory disputes.
- Antitrust
- Wrongful TerminationWe are highly experienced in representing management in matters involving wages and hours, regulatory compliance and claim prevention, wrongful termination, discrimination, workers’ compensation, labor relations and unions, and unemployment insurance.
- Employment ContractCompliance and claim prevention, developing and installing hiring and termination procedures, employment agreements, nondisclosure agreements, employee handbooks, work rules and disciplinary systems;
- Employment Litigation
- Real Estate TransactionsFerris & Britton advises clients in a wide variety of real estate transactions. The firm has extensive experience in enabling property owners, buyers and developers to realize the highest value from their property. Our wide experience in real estate transactions includes...
- Estate PlanningWhere family or other closely held businesses are involved, the Ferris & Britton estate planning and tax lawyers work closely with the business department in order to create a well-structured, integrated business and estate plan. The tax department has pioneered methods which, despite a generational shift in ownership, allow the senior generation to continue to control the operations of the business. Also, fundamental to the practice is the protection of the assets of the business and its owners from creditors.
- WillsDocumenting the estate decisions of clients, including wills and trust preparation, including trusts of a simple nature designed for the single person or small family to more complicated tax oriented trusts, and including testamentary trusts, living trusts, revocable and irrevocable trusts; pre- and post-nuptial agreements; powers of attorney for property management; and durable powers of attorney for health care, and directives to physicians
- Trusts
- Power of Attorney
- Tax LawFerris & Britton’s tax department puts a special emphasis on income and estate tax issues unique to businesses and their owners. Ferris & Britton’s tax department has extensive experience in...