Business Law

Hutchinson Cox’s outside general counsel attorneys offer comprehensive legal services to private businesses, nonprofits, and public entities. We provide direct advice on all matters within our expertise and coordinate attorneys on legal issues requiring specialized counsel.

Our business litigators offer the deep experience necessary to create effective strategies and desirable outcomes. We represent public and private clients, including government entities, individuals, closely held companies, and global corporations on matters involving business torts and contract disputes, unfair trade practices claims, regulatory issues, and internal conflicts (including shareholder oppression litigation). We litigate in state and federal courts, and when circumstances require it, our attorneys can address matters with government agencies or in the legislature. Learn more about how we can help clients needing commercial litigation.

Our mergers and acquisitions team has the experience and expertise to efficiently and effectively handle the broadest range of purchase and sale transactions—from the most complicated and sophisticated deals to the transition of a family or small business. We provide responsive, high-touch, personalized service from experienced attorneys.

We view our role with our business clients as that of an outside business partner. We've built relationships that have endured for decades, acting as outside general counsel, a strategic business advisor, and a one-stop legal resource for clients of all sizes and in a variety of industries. We have helped our clients attain their goals, foresee and avoid problems, and keep their business running smoothly, whether a lender, business borrower, or a commercial entity trying to complete or resolve a transaction.

Our goal is to alleviate all worry our business clients have about legal matters so they can focus on taking their business to the next level. For public, private, and nonprofit clients, our business lawyers act as a primary contact, handling day-to-day legal issues and referring clients to other Hutchinson Cox lawyers with skills in particular disciplines when needed. We are an experienced business planning firm with attorneys who specialize in such areas as:

• Corporate ownership, control, and management issues such as entity formation, tax planning, and executive compensation.
• Negotiation and documentation of private and public capital solutions for start-up, ongoing operations and business expansion.
• Agreements governing relationships in production, supply, marketing and distribution.
• Development of internal company policies covering employment matters.
• Development of regulatory compliance strategies for tax audits, antitrust and trade regulation, and intellectual property.
• Real estate matters such as acquisitions, land use approvals and compliance, environmental clean-up, and leasing of office, warehousing, manufacturing and sales facilities.

Our attorneys have extensive experience in all aspects of post-trial review in appellate and administrative review of trial decisions. Our approach is highly client-oriented, striving for maximum communication with the client and assisting the client in making important decisions, based on our experienced advice in the area. Lawyers in this practice group draw on each other’s strengths and experience and are able to take a collaborative approach to maximize efficiency and attempt to keep the costs of litigation in check.

The Business Law Centre at Hutchinson Cox works with small business and start-up clients to help them with business entity formation among an array of other legal needs. In addition to offering a traditional billable hours approach, Business Law Centre offers an upfront price on many legal projects so clients know the full cost of the legal project from the start.