Our law firm is a closely-held business, and we owe much of our experience across our practice areas to working with other closely-held businesses and their owners. Starting, maintaining, growing, and selling a business can touch a range of legal fields from an assortment of business law matters to taxation to commercial real estate to estate and succession planning. Our attorneys routinely work with closely-held businesses of varying size throughout North Carolina and the Southeast and across a broad spectrum of industries, from large distribution and franchise operators to professional service providers to start-up technology and life science companies to “mom-and-pop” restaurants. We pride ourselves on developing long-term relationships with our business clients as general outside counsel and assisting them as efficiently as possible as legal issues arise. We also enjoy being part of a team with our clients’ other professional advisors, including accountants, financial planners, business brokers, and insurance agents. We understand that in most cases our clients’ businesses are their livelihood, like ours is to us.

By way of example, our business services include representation with respect to:


We also routinely draft and negotiate a myriad of business forms and commercial contracts for our clients such as:


In summary, together with our commercial real estate and estate planning practice, our firm is equipped to handle your closely-held business and commercial transaction needs.