Corporate counseling and transactions are a major focus of the firm’s practice. Our business lawyers work with everyone from individuals and start-ups to established companies and large corporations. We bring depth of experience and the practicality that comes from decades of sitting on this side of the table.
Talk to a business attorneyBusiness and corporate work is where Oseran Hahn started, and most of our long-term client relationships still begin here. We handle entity formation, shareholder agreements, financings, employment plans, contracts, and the M&A or generational hand-off when it comes. The work tends to come in waves: heavy at formation and at exit, quieter in between, but always available when something unexpected lands.
Most engagements run with a partner on the file and an associate drafting alongside. Both work from sixty years of forms and precedent the firm has built up. By the second call, we know your file.
Entity selection, founding documents, and the early decisions that set everything that follows.
The library of working agreements a business signs every quarter, drafted in plain language, built to hold.
Day-to-day deals: vendor, supplier, customer, and partner agreements that travel well across the business.
Sell-side and buy-side counsel for closely-held companies, from LOI to closing binder.
Negotiation, diligence, drafting, and the patient follow-through that keeps a deal from drifting.
Boards, officers, minute books, and the discipline that protects a company over decades.
Capital raises, debt facilities, intercompany funding, and shareholder lending arrangements.
Private placements, exempt offerings, and regulatory work for closely-held issuers.
Buy-side and sell-side diligence: the structured review that catches issues before they become price.
Offer letters, executive comp, equity grants, restrictive covenants, and the documents senior hires expect.
IP, brand, and technology licenses that scale with the business and stay enforceable.
Channel partner, reseller, and supply arrangements drafted to support the next deal, not just close this one.
Winding up cleanly: tax, creditor, and successor-liability issues handled in order.
Counsel for businesses on both sides of distressed situations, from workouts to formal proceedings.
The early-stage legal scaffolding founders need: formation, cap table, hiring, and first commercial agreements.
FDDs, Washington franchise registration, and the agreement terms that protect franchisors and franchisees from signing to exit.
Business clients return for the same three reasons. None of them is the matter at hand. It’s the next one.
You meet the partner who will draft your documents. They’re the one who picks up your call about the amendment two years later.
Most business matters touch tax, estate, real estate, or litigation. We coordinate across the firm so you don’t pay four lawyers to talk to each other.
We come to the table looking for the shape of a workable answer, not the longest road to one.
Seven shareholders share the Business & Corporate practice. You won’t meet one and work with another.
A working conversation about the business, the people behind it, and the goals on the table. The structure follows the goals, not the other way around.
We read the existing documents, the cap table, and the contracts on file. A short written memo follows when warranted.
We propose the structure or path in plain language, with the trade-offs each option carries.
Senior attorney on the file from the first draft. Lean teams, careful drafting, no surprise bills.
Closing-style execution of the document set. Coordinated with CPA, banker, and any other professionals in the room.
We stay available for the questions that come up over the months and years, because most of the value of a clean engagement is what doesn’t happen later.
We help co-founders structure the company before money or customers complicate the conversation: entity choice, equity split, vesting, IP assignment, and the operating agreement that anticipates the moments most handshakes don’t.
We help owners restructure for scale: revisiting the entity, separating real estate from operations, adding holding-company layers, and putting the governance habits in place that the next phase requires.
We formalize what was previously informal: shareholder agreements, voting structures, employment policy, and the buy-sell mechanics that protect both the company and the family relationship.
We move from counselor to deal lead: LOI, diligence, definitive agreements, financing, and the post-closing transition. Same lawyers, broader scope.
Negotiated structure, indemnity, and earn-out provisions; closed within ninety days while preserving the family’s working relationship with the buyer.
Diligence triage, purchase-agreement negotiation, and integration counsel for a repeat acquirer; managed at the price tag a growing platform can sustain.
Structure, term-sheet negotiation, and investor counsel, drafted to support the next round, not just close this one.
Most matters are hourly. For ongoing clients, we offer fixed monthly retainers under our General Counsel practice. Transactional work is quoted with a written budget for each phase before the work begins.
Both, just not on the same transaction. We can, with informed consent, represent multiple related parties where their interests are clearly aligned, and we’ll be direct about it in the engagement letter.
Yes. We routinely work with international clients on cross-border investment, M&A, and structuring, including treaty analysis and home-country counsel coordination.
Our litigation team is in the same office, on the same client matters. You don’t need to find new counsel if a deal sours or a partner relationship fractures.
Formation work is a few weeks. A typical M&A transaction runs 60 to 120 days from LOI to closing. Complex matters or capital events with multiple counterparties take longer.
Senior counsel, careful drafting, and the steady follow-through a business deserves.
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