Business Services

We answer business questions every day.

If you are starting a business, running a business, or selling a business, the Chicago business lawyers at Mayfield | Broderick offer a broad range of legal services. Our attorneys are skilled in business organization, business formation, and structuring issues such as choice of limited liability companies or S-corporations, and we complement your accountants and other professionals. We can answer all your business law questions.

Our services include: forming business entities, such as a corporation, LLC, partnerships and not-for-profit companies; buying and selling businesses, mergers and acquisitions; contracts, agreements and terms; employee and independent contractor issues; commercial leases; intellectual property including trademarks; internet law; and business and civil litigation including lawsuits, arbitration and mediation.

Business Solutions:

·        Liability Protection           We help you separate and protect your hard earned personal assets from the liabilities of your business

·        Ownership Clarity             It’s your business but are you protected from passionate claims of ownership from people providing financing, business ideas or labor?  A common and serious legal issue affecting many small businesses is that it is unclear who owns the business. Make sure your ownership rights are clear from the beginning.

·        Tax Strategies                  Death and taxes are inevitable, and the inevitable requires a plan.  Planning for taxes is one of the most important things separating successful small businesses from those that don’t make it.

·        Employee Relations           Statistically, your own employees are the most likely source of a lawsuit against your business.  Are you taking the right steps to avoid this risk in your small business?

·        Sustainable Leases            Clients who want a greener impact from the built environment, who want a dependable source for sustainability expertise, and who want a cost effective and practical sustainable lease look to Mayfield | Broderick for handling the uncertainty of long-term lease obligations. 

·        Clear Contracts                 Do not ignore contracts because they take too much time to read and negotiate. We help you avoid the sometimes perilous results that can occur when businesses fail to make sure they understand exactly what they are signing.

·        Litigation Prevention        We can be tough, ornery, and effective advocates when needed.  But we’ve found that litigation is both costly and time consuming for everyone.  There are many ways to reduce the risk of litigation.

·        Compliance                      We help you keep up with the numerous laws, permits, licenses, and regulations that your business requires. 

·        Internet and IP                  If your employees are using the internet or if you have logos, taglines, technical papers or other intellectual property, we make sure you are up-to-date and protected.


Contact MAYFIELD | BRODERICK today - Contact Us or call us at (312) 878-7858 to schedule a free initial consultation.

Practice Areas

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Planet

Construction, Brownfields

Sustainable Development

 

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Outsourced General Counsel

Contracts, Corporate, Disputes

 

People

Real Estate, Estate Planning

Taxes, Employment, Probate

 

The Construction Contract Review

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Our Work

* an irrigation company is now an EPA WaterSense contractor and expanding its workforce to handle sustainability demand

* a green company received trademark protection

* flat-rate startup consultation and entity formation for non-profit company organizing eco-tours

* an off-road equipment owner developed, defined, and marketed a carbon credit based on switching diesel fuel to ULSD or biodiesel

* successfully defended a minister against an IRS attack on his tax exempt status, allowing him to continue his charitable and religious work on his humble but, now permanently, tax exempt salary

* a home buyer conducted an inspection and the seller paid for an energy efficiency audit which identified hundreds of dollars of annual savings for our client's new green dream home

* helped employers defend wrongful termination suits, wage and hour investigations and navigate e-verify

* negotiated employment contracts and other job protections for employees

* filed mechanics liens and got a concrete company paid after it poured turbine foundations on over 30 different parcels for a wind farm developer

* when a demolition contractor discovered an unexpected underground condition at a naval facility it expected an $800,000 loss; instead it was able to successfully void the contract and avoid the loss

* counseling on various corporate transaction ranging from asset sales, stock sales, corporate financings, shareholder/Board of Director relations; values ranging from a few thousand to over $100 million

* small claims collection matter handled on a contingency basis for a small internet developer and graphic design studio; it may have been the small claim court's jurisdiction but the amount was of no small concern to our client and received big claim attention

* helped company define for the USEPA how its innovative RCRA remedy results in 28% less carbon emissions

* successfully argued before the Illinois Appellate Court on behalf of a company doing federally funded cleanups after Hurricane Katrina

* negotiated a lease for a 35 person office working to improve the environment. Firm's carbon footprint reduced 22%...all paid for by the landlord

* process corporate compliance "paperwork" on behalf of corporations nationwide....the paperwork is paperless

* drafted planning documents at a flat rate for a young family that provided care and protection for dependents and substantial funding for a local watershed group

* Bid protest for a state highway contract settled amicably after forceful discovery process; achieved all client's goals without costly and lengthy hearing

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312.878.7858

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