Business & Commercial Law Overview

The business law attorneys at Zell Law provide a wide variety of legal services to businesses throughout Northern Virginia (including Fairfax County, Loudoun County, Fauquier County, Fairfax City, Alexandria City, and Arlington County), Maryland (including Montgomery County and Prince Georges County), and Washington, D.C. Our business law attorneys have the experience to meet the needs of businesses, whether those needs revolve around a start-up venture or an established business.

Zell Law's business planning practice consists of advising and representing clients in the areas of business formation, transactional assistance, tax law, non-profit organizations, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity financing, and executive compensation planning. We serve as corporate counsel and business adviser to small and medium-sized closely held companies that emerge as start-ups and grow into mature companies.

We provide advice and counsel to management teams, boards of directors and general counsel in connection with on-going operations and strategy, with a view towards providing value, understanding the clients' business and applying extensive experience to solve clients' problems. Wayne Zell, President and founder of Zell Law, is one of a rare breed of business and tax law attorneys with proven expertise in both tax and securities law, with the ability to see legal problems in terms of business solutions and opportunities.

Our business law attorneys have a reputation for drafting tailored business agreements that meet the unique needs each individual client. Some of the business agreements we have recently handled include:

Negotiation and drafting of merger and acquisition [link to 3b page] agreements and ancillary documents and preparation of tax opinions in connection with tax-free reorganizations.
Complex operating agreements for Virginia, Maryland, D.C. and Delaware limited liability companies.
Corporate buy-sell agreements, including cross-purchase and shareholder agreements and LLC buy-out agreements.
Entity formation documents, including certificates of incorporation, certificates of rights, preferences and designations, articles of incorporation, bylaws and organizational minutes, shareholder agreements and operating agreements.
Borrowing and lending documents, including commercial loan agreements, private indebtedness, security agreements, collateral assignments and pledge agreements.
Executive employment agreements, consulting agreements, stock option plans and stock option awards, equity incentive plans, stock appreciation rights and phantom stock agreements, non-compete agreements, proprietary inventions and non-disclosure agreements, and non-qualified deferred compensation agreements.
Sales agreements, sales representative and agency agreements, distribution agreements, value-added reseller agreements, incentive compensation plans.
Software and technology licenses, content licenses, software development agreements, turnkey computer systems installation agreements, web hosting agreements, web development agreements, and application service provider agreements.
Private equity subscription documents, confidential term sheets, and private placement memoranda.
Leases and sub-leases of commercial office space.
Teaming agreements, partnership agreements and services agreements.

For more information on business law issues, please visit our Business Practice Center and feel free to subscribe to our monthly Business Organizations and Transactions Newsletter.

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