BUSINESS LAW
Mantas Law, LLC consistently seeks to provide outstanding service and legal counsel appropriate to each client’s business and budget. Our firm delivers practical guidance to business owners and managers when navigating the challenges of each transaction and balancing the associated risks inherent in doing business.
Our attorneys can help you navigate through the legal challenges that you may face as a business owner. We offer proactive solutions to general business and legal issues that may arise. We routinely structure and organize business entities of all types, including corporations and limited liability companies, and prepare the appropriate organizational documents.
Whether our firm is involved in a merger, acquisition or complex transaction, we serve as trusted counselors who focus on what is critically important to every client we serve. Like the entrepreneurs and companies, we represent, our attorneys are flexible and quick on their feet. We represent businesses across a variety of industries, including:
- Real estate
- Finance, financial institutions and hedge funds
- Hospitality and entertainment
- Manufacturing
- Medical and pharmaceutical
- Technology
Additionally, we assist our clients with the structure, negotiation and closing of business transactions, such as the acquisition, sale and merger of businesses and business contracts of all types. We provide a cost-effective and practical representation of corporations, limited liability companies, investors and entrepreneurs. Our attorneys take an active role in understanding the nuances of our clients’ industry to provide knowledgeable and practical counsel in all areas where we are engaged.
We strive to create lasting relationships with the businesses we represent. Your business is our priority. Whether you are a multimillion-dollar corporation or a boutique-sized business, we want you to accomplish your goals.
We advise businesses and corporations on issues including, but not limited to:
- Business Startup, Entity Formation and Governance – entity selection and formation; ownership and control issues; bylaws; LLC Operating Agreements and Shareholder Agreements; phantom stock and stock options; board of director management, internal governance and registered agent services
- Ongoing Business Representation and Corporate Management – third-party relationships with customers, suppliers and banks; corporate liability; commercial real estate management and financing, contract review and administration; employment policies, including employee handbooks, retention procedures and restrictive covenants, terminations and legal obligations for work rules, leave and unemployment
- Acquisitions, Divestures and Strategic Alliances – purchase and sale of business assets or corporate stock; voting trusts; succession and continuation planning, including inter-generational and third party transfers; cross-marketing agreements and joint ventures. Our Des Plaines estate planning attorneys also are available to implement business transition planning.
- Corporate Disputes – including, but not limited to, commercial development disputes, construction law disputes, joint venture disputes and disputes related to stakeholder interests
- Corporate Dissolution and Dissociation – plan of liquidation, withdrawal of an organizer or director, dissolution of partnerships and negotiations with creditors
- Purchase, Sale, Lease, and Licensing Transactions • Ownership and Management Succession Planning
- Shareholder Agreements
- Operating Agreements
- Employment Agreements
- Consulting Agreements
- Non-Compete Agreements
