Practices

Business & Corporate Transactions

Helping you succeed in a fast-moving world.

Successful businesses share four common traits: visionary leadership, sound planning, excellent execution and responsive legal counsel. We help businesses and individuals across a range of industries build success and navigate the relationships and transactions necessary to start, nurture and grow.

We begin each engagement with uncommon attention to learning your goals and unique situation. We listen to you, your business and legal advisors, and even opposing counsel. Why? Because our experience has shown us that it’s the best way to provide the objective analysis and creative solutions you need to find success.

Our collaborative approach provides an uncommon experience that leverages the insight and deep industry knowledge of the full firm as we work across our services and practice areas, fueling insight and creativity, and driving results that propel our clients’ interests further than ever.

Services We Provide

  • Acquiring and Disposing of Businesses

  • Asset Sales

  • Bankruptcy 363 Sales

  • Business Divorces

  • Business Formations and Start-Ups

  • Business Separations and Transfers

  • Business Succession Planning

    Business Divorce and Complex Ownership Dispute Resolution | Buy‐Sell Agreements | Transfer Tax Planning

  • Business Transactions

  • Charitable Giving

  • Choice of Entity

  • Closely Held Businesses

  • Compensation and Fee Agreements

  • Consulting Agreements

  • Contract Disputes and Breaches

  • Contract Preparation and Negotiation

  • Corporate Governance and Records Compliance

  • Corporate Reorganizations

  • Corporation Bylaws, Articles of Incorporation, and Stockholders Agreements

  • Data Privacy and Security

  • Defamation Clearance

  • Digital Health

  • Dissolution, Cancellation or Winding Down of a Business Entity

  • Dissolutions

  • Employee Benefits

  • Employee Manuals

  • Employment Agreements

  • Employment and Compensation Agreements

  • Employment Disputes

  • Employment Law Compliance

  • Equity Holder’s Rights

  • Estate and Tax Planning

  • Executive Compensation Agreements (e.g., Deferred Compensation Plans, Stock Option Plans)

  • Fair Use Analysis & Opinions

  • Formation and Operations

  • Gasoline Dealers and Franchise Law (PMPA)

  • Guidance on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

  • Healthcare Law Compliance

  • Healthcare Technology

  • Healthcare Transactions

  • HIPAA/Health Information Privacy, Security & Breach Response

  • Intellectual Property Counseling

  • International Tax Issues

  • Investigations

  • Joint Venture Agreements

  • Leases

  • Limited Liability Company Articles of Organization and Operating Agreements

  • Liquidations

  • Mergers

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Minority, Women, and Veteran-Owned Business Enterprises

  • Non-Profit Corporation Creation and Governance

  • Non-Profit Corporation Governance and Records Compliance

  • Non-Profit Organizations

  • Partnership Agreements

  • Pre-Publication Review

  • Private Equity and Venture Capital Investments

  • Purchase Agreements

  • Real Estate Transactions

  • Restrictive Covenants and Non-Compete Agreements

  • Service Agreements

  • Service Provider Classification

  • Severance Agreements

  • Shareholder Dispute Resolution

  • Start-Ups and Emerging Companies

  • Stock Sales

  • Strategic Alliance

  • Supply Agreements

  • Takedown Demands

  • Tax Advice and Planning

  • Tax Controversies

  • Tax-Exempt Filings

  • Technology Agreements

  • Wage Garnishments

  • Business & Corporate Transactions Team

    P: 314.505.5424
    E: alshathir@capessokol.com

    Jeffrey A. Cohen

    Managing Shareholder

    P: 314.505.5490
    E: cohen@capessokol.com

    Douglas S. Dove

    Shareholder

    P: 314.505.5460
    E: dove@capessokol.com

    P: 314.754.4870
    E: gaddis@capessokol.com

    P: 314.754.4872
    E: lambert@capessokol.com

    Sarah J. Luem

    Shareholder

    P: 314.505.5498
    E: luem@capessokol.com

    John S. Meyer Jr

    Senior Counsel

    P: 314.505.5442
    E: meyer@capessokol.com

    P: 314.754.4864
    E: bmiller@capessokol.com

    P: 314.754.4850
    E: rizzo@capessokol.com

    William B. Remis

    Shareholder

    P: 314.754.4852
    E: remis@capessokol.com

    Brian J. Sabin

    Shareholder

    P: 314.505.5426
    E: sabin@capessokol.com

    P: 314.505.5452
    E: salsich@capessokol.com

    A. Christine Scott

    Senior Analyst, Business & Finance and Real Estate Services

    P: 314.754.4874
    E: scott@capessokol.com

    P: 314.754.4848
    E: shanfeld@capessokol.com

    Robin L. Steiner

    Manager, Business & Finance and Real Estate Services

    P: 314.721.7701
    E: steiner@capessokol.com

    Robert T. West

    Senior Counsel

    P: 314.721.7701
    E: rwest@capessokol.com

    P: 314.754.4842
    E: wipfler@capessokol.com

    P:  314.754.4840
    E: durban@capessokol.com

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