Bob Bible Law provides clients with the guidance to resolve important and often difficult legal decisions involved in organizing, operating, financing, expanding and, when appropriate, downsizing their businesses.
The goal of Bob Bible Law is to help clients navigate the many facets of business development; beginning from entity choice and formation, into ongoing business operations, and structuring business changes associated with company acquisitions or sales, or business divisions or dissolutions.
When deciding to start a new business, Bob can help with choosing the appropriate business entity. Bob’s guidance allows you to put in place appropriate documents and plans to govern entity management and control so you can focus on the growth and development of your products or services. These documents to govern the entity and its personnel include:
- Operating agreements
- Shareholders agreements
- Partnership agreements
- Bylaws
- Employment agreements
- Confidentiality and/or non-competition agreements
With more than 30 years of experience in counseling clients on proper entity governance, Bob’s guidance will help you follow all necessary entity formalities, including holding annual meetings, properly documenting company decisions within entity minutes and complying with applicable State filing requirements. Bob can also help with decisions to purchase or lease office or other business premises.
As your business grows and evolves, Bob can guide you through the many decisions often encountered by a growing company, including:
- Mergers or other acquisitions of equity or assets
- Loan and finance arrangements
- Shareholder relations
- Stock options
- Stock redemptions
- Employment and/or independent contractor agreements (including a variety of employee incentive plans)
- Agreements to protect vital trade secrets and proprietary information such as confidentiality agreements and non-compete arrangements
Bob’s experience in guiding businesses involved in the manufacture and sale of products allows them to structure purchase and sale documentation to assure to the greatest extent possible that their terms and conditions will prevail in a “battle of forms.”
Bob has the experience to guide clients through a broad range of business and commercial law decisions, including:
- Formation of entities such as corporations, professional associations, partnerships, joint ventures and limited liability companies
- Review and preparation of contracts for sales of products or providing services
- Agreements governing stockholder or other equity owner relationships
- Mergers, acquisitions and other agreements involving use of equity interests or assets
- Reorganizations, dissolutions and liquidations
- Purchase and sale of companies or a company’s assets
- Employee, employee leasing and independent contractor relationships, including non-compete, non-disclosure, non-solicitation and confidentiality agreements
With a Legal Masters in tax law, Bob is also able to guide business clients through the tax ramifications of business decisions. Whether deciding on an entity tax classification, structuring employment and consulting contracts, structuring merger, acquisition/sale and financing transactions, or structuring other business arrangements, Bob can help clients navigate the potential tax aspects of those arrangements.