Menden Freiman
Do Not Overlook These Legal Checkpoints 
When Making a Business Investment

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If you are considering buying or investing in a business, you may already have talked to an accountant, business broker and a banker.  A lawyer also should be on your list of advisers. 

Lawyers are trained to see the big picture and how all the moving parts of a deal touch each other.  They are well suited to lead a team of specialists who bring together your business investment.

As a business person, you are naturally excited about the opportunity a new investment brings.   As a risk manager, your lawyer is looking ahead to the inevitable disputes and threats of litigation that eventually emerge in most businesses.   Relatively minor changes in business entity structure (that are much harder to effect down the road) can result in tax savings, separate assets for the purpose of liability protection, and align with your overall estate and business succession plans.

Here are some things your lawyer will consider in a business investment.  

Contact MendenFreiman LLP today if you are interested in making a business investment and need help.
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Business can be complicated.  Life can be complicated.  Simplifying the "complicated" is what makes MendenFreiman distinctively different.

 

Our clients are privately held businesses, business owners, affluent individuals and families.  They hire us because we are uniquely able to navigate highly complex issues that can have a long-term impact on their businesses and families.
  
Our attorneys  have strong tax, accounting and financial backgrounds which create an opportunity to analyze each client situation from a number of points of view.  We not only relish the opportunity to apply what we know to solving complex client problems, but to do that in a caring and supportive way to all our areas of practice.

 

Contact us for additional information:
5565 Glenridge Connector, NE | Suite 850 | Atlanta, GA 30342
Tel: 770.379.1450 | Fax: 770.379.1455
  

George D. Menden 

  

Lawrence H. Freiman 

  

Paige P. Baker 


James R. Kanner
Nathan T. Johns 

njohns@mendenfreiman.com

 

Jeffrey J. Meek
jmeek@mendenfreiman.com 

 

Katherine E. Polking

kpolking@mendenfreiman.com 

 

Alden K. Corrigan

acorrigan@mendenfreiman.com