Business

Whiteford, Taylor & Preston's business and corporate practice offers a comprehensive range of business services for our clients, which range from mid-market and large companies to Fortune 500 corporations, as well as start-ups, tax-exempt entities, educational institutions, and entrepreneurs and other individuals throughout the United States and the world.  While our attorneys work with businesses ranging from single-owner entrepreneurial and professional firms to large public companies, size is neither a prerequisite nor an obstacle to delivering highly responsive service and practical, actionable advice. 

Our services range from the selection and formation of an appropriate business entity at the outset, to helping you expand through organic growth, strategic alliances. joint ventures and other transactions, as well as the services required for a mature business, including succession planning, mergers and acquisitions and other exits, as well as liquidation and dissolution.  Of course, we strive to work with our clients professionally, and efficiently, but our advice also reflects our years of experience with real businesses and their needs.  We advise our clients on numerous financings including public and private equity and debt offerings, venture capital and private equity; employment matters, employee benefits, executive compensation and stock option and other equity-based compensation programs; corporate governance and grievances; tax planning and partnership structuring and many other legal issues as they arise.

In addition to possessing deep substantive experience in specific legal areas, we have organized our business services around dozens of specialized industry groups that are focused on understanding the “real world” opportunities and challenges in specific industries, so we can bring a hands-on approach to problem solving and deal making.

Our corporate attorneys use an interdisciplinary approach and partner with other practice areas within the firm as necessary, including labor and employment, litigation and corporate restructuring and bankruptcy.  Forming client-focused teams, our attorneys are able to efficiently identify and address all relevant issues to help our clients both manage the risks they face and make the most of the opportunities presented to them.