Business Law, Partnerships and Professional Liability

Our firms Business and Corporations practice spans a diverse group of manufacturing, financial services, real estate, design and architecture, and engineering services. This professional services-centric focus lends itself to a deeper  understanding of the risk tolerance and the professional standard of care that guides the professional services industry in California.

• Business Torts – defamation; unfair competition; tortious interference with contract; breach of fiduciary duty; trade secret misappropriation, First Amendment actions, Anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation), slander and libel claim and defense.
• Contract Enforcement and Defense of claims – real estate; purchase and sale of goods (UCC); exclusivity, non-competition agreements; partnership and joint ventures; sale and purchases of business and related post-closing disputes.
• Corporate service areas include corporate governance, LLC formation, corporate formalities, corporate share reinvestment and buyouts, fiduciary challenges, shareholder derivative actions, as well as corporate breakups and dissolution.
• Professional Negligence practice includes legal malpractice actions, real estate agent and broker negligence,  engineer, design and fiduciary standard of care actions.