Corporate Law
Hodges & Coxe, P.C. provides clients with a wide range of business services from starting a business, handling daily legal concerns and protection of a trademark, to dealing with more complex matters such as mergers, acquisitions, and sales of businesses.
Starting a business requires careful planning. Hodges & Coxe, P.C. assists business owners in the formation of business entities and helps them create business strategies to achieve their goals. We advise on issues related to the selection of entity type and drafting of shareholder agreements or operating agreements.
Hodges & Coxe, P.C. assists business owners in the process of buying or selling a business in one or more of the following ways: advice on the structure of the transaction, negotiation of terms and drafting of the initial terms memorandum, offering legal strategies to sellers to address issues discovered during the due diligence process, advice to buyers on conducting legal due diligence, and drafting, reviewing and negotiating the extensive documentation involved in a business transaction.
We consult with business owners to draft, review, and negotiate contracts related to various business activities, including: buy-sell agreements, lease agreements, service contracts, releases and waivers and non-compete agreements.
Hodges & Coxe, P.C. also assists with a variety of federal, state and local tax matters. We represent taxpayers in audits and appeals before the Internal Revenue Service and state taxing authorities. We counsel closely held business, individuals, families, non-profit organizations, foundations and charities on income tax, sales tax, and estate and gift tax issues.
We help entrepreneurs, investors and owners of family and other privately-held businesses assure their futures through effective succession planning. We personalize business succession strategies to the individual needs of each business and owner, working to achieve non-tax objectives and minimize the potential income, gift and estate taxes in exit, succession and wealth transfer decisions.