CALIFORNIA BUSINESS LAWYER

CORPORATE, SECURITIES,  M&A,  &  LENDING LAW SERVICES: 

I am a California licensed business lawyer.  I can skillfully represent your business in a wide variety of business matters such as company formations, corporate startups, securities offerings and compliance, M&A transactions, equity and debt financing transactions, equipment leasing and finance transactions, joint ventures, due diligence, trademark, regulatory compliance, and contract negotiations and drafting.   As a California lawyer, I work with a wide range of clients.  My concentration is mainly in the small business and middle market segment. My skill in incorporating litigation avoidance strategies into my clients’ business planning is a key element of my transactional practice. Regardless of an organization’s size or prominence, legal problems affecting financial status and/or reputation, require prompt and practical solutions. I often act as outside general counsel for my clients’ businesses.   I serve many business industries including, real estate, lending, financial services, equipment leasing and finance, technology startups, music, entertainment, new media, fitness/wellness, manufacturing, restaurants, and apparel/fashion.

As a California business lawyer, I also represent foreign investors in California in all transactions covering business and real estate investments in many business industries.   We also work closely with the investor’s immigration counsel to produce business, securities offerings, PPM, real estate, equity, debt, investment, and related documents in compliance with EB-5, L-1, and other investment visas.   I often act as outside general counsel for foreign investors’ businesses located in California.

Some of the services provided as a California business lawyer:  

• The formation, organization, ownership, control, governance, and dissolution of  corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, partnerships, joint ventures, private equity funds, syndications, and other business entities.

• Registration of copyrights, and trademarks.
• Intellectual property registrations and licensing.

• Buying and Selling of Businesses, Mergers & Acquisitions transactions for small businesses, middle market companies, , and private equity funds.

• Representation of start-up companies, angel investors, and venture capital firms in equity and debt financing transactions.

• Drafting of venture capital financing documents

• Drafting of Private Placement Memorandums.   (PPM)

• Private offerings transactions, including representation of accredited investors and private offering issuers.

• Representation of borrowers and lenders in debt transactions.

• Negotiation and drafting of contracts with vendors, suppliers, licensees, distributors/wholesalers, sales representatives, and other related parties.

• Negotiation, drafting, and review of business contracts.

• Executive employment agreements and representation

• Corporate governance, management and control.

• Providing advice to majority and minority owners, partners, general and limited partners, shareholders, members, managers, officers, directors, employees, and other business participants.

• Representation of lenders in commercial and consumer lending transactions.

• Representation of California Finance Lenders before DFPI and assistance in obtaining a California Finance Lenders license.

• Representation of financial services businesses

• 50 state mortgage broker and lender licensing lawyer.

• Representation in equipment leasing and finance transactions.
  

• Assistance with initial and annual shareholder and board of directors meetings, review/update of bylaws, corporate maintenance and resolutions.

• Revival of suspended corporations, LLCs and LPs.

• Partnership agreements and disputes.

• Dissolution and wind-up, purchase, sale, merger, and conversion of corporations, LLCs, and LLPs.

• Representation of business brokers, M&A intermediaries,  middle market investment banks, and California Finance Lenders in administrative proceedings before government agencies such as DRE, DFPI, and the SEC.

• Representation in DFPI and DRE administrative hearings and proceedings, including Accusations, Statements of Issues, Desist and Refrain Orders, and Citations.

• Representation in investigations by DFPI or DRE.

• California FINRA defense Attorney.  Representation in FINRA disciplinary hearings, and arbitration and mediation proceedings.

• Draft privacy policies and provide compliance advice with privacy laws.  

• Affordable outside general counsel plans to businesses.

REAL ESTATE & ZONING LAW SERVICES:

We provide real estate legal services to real estate investors, developers, lenders, architects, and contractors throughout California.  We offer, lease and purchase and sale negotiating and contract drafting services, and structuring arrangements services, which minimize future disagreements between parties by reducing any ambiguities concerning the rights and responsibilities of both landlord and tenant or buyer and seller.

Our firm also handles disputes that may arise during or at the end of a real estate transaction. Our practice in this area includes representation in virtually all areas of real estate, including land use and planning matters. In addition, we represent clients regarding real property due diligence including title examination, and structuring ownership entities and financing arrangements.

We are regularly involved in negotiating and preparing real estate acquisition, design, construction, leasing, and financing agreements, and in closing real estate acquisitions.

• Real Property Sales Transactions & Exchanges

• Real Estate Banking & Finance

• Foreclosures

• Lending laws

• Real estate issues and due diligence in M&A transactions

• Commercial and residential leases.

• Formation of real estate partnerships, joint ventures, LLCs, LPs, syndications, and private equity funds.

• Zoning proceedings, zoning due diligence in real estate acquisitions and M&A transactions.

• Contractors’ Law and Representation before the Construction State License Board

• Formation of construction companies, taking into consideration RMO and RME equity ownership limitations imposed by CSLB regulations.

• DRE compliance.

• Outside general counsel services to construction companies

• Affordable outside general counsel plans to real estate and construction companies.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY &  ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES:

Law Offices of Alan Abergel, PC, is a trademark lawyer, which represents clients with intellectual property matters such as trademarks, service marks, trade names, business slogans, and logos. It is very important for your business to protect its trademark as your trademark is a valuable business asset.

I can register your business’s service mark, trademark, brand name, slogan, and logo with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as well as internationally. I handle the entire trademark process from beginning to end, including filing the trademark application, responding to a USPTO Office Action, and representing you in any administrative proceedings if necessary, including appeal to the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

I can also help with conducting a trademark search to minimize the chances of a USPTO Office Action, administrative proceedings, rejection of your trademark, cease and desist requests from conflicting trademark owners, or trademark infringement litigation.

I also handle other intellectual property maters such as copyright registration, copyright licensing, trademark licensing, invention licensing, and patent licensing agreements.

My fees are reasonable and affordable.   I charge flat fees for trademark and copyright registrations.   I handle all trademark and copyright registration myself.

I serve all types of business industries in trademark and intellectual property matters including without limitation, lending, financial services, real estate, construction, technology startups, music, entertainment, new media, fitness/wellness, manufacturing, restaurants, and apparel.

The fact that the Law Offices of Alan Abergel, P.C. is a business law practice allows us to serve our intellectual property clients with business at the forefront.  We are able to offer clients unique opportunities and highly advantageous strategies designed to allow them to take full benefit of their intellectual property assets.

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