Solheim Billing & Grimmer, S.C.

Business & Emerging Business

To survive in today’s economy, small businesses need lawyers who think ahead and share their entrepreneurial spirit. Since it was founded in 1994, Solheim Billing & Grimmer, S.C. has assisted small and mid-sized businesses in all stages of development, from start-up to emerging to established.

Formation and Structure

It’s vital to structure a business appropriately from its beginning, and to think ahead, focused on how to move the business to each new level. Among the services we perform most frequently are:

Formation and structure/governance of start-up companies
Domain name acquisition and protection
Business plan review and advice
Early stage capitalization
Tax and strategic planning
Site planning (lease review or real estate acquisition)
Minority business enterprise contracting

Business Agreements

SB&G helps businesses develop and negotiate appropriate agreements critical to intra- and inter-business relationships, cash flow and profitability including:

Founders agreements
Technology and fixed asset acquisition agreements and lease agreements
Customer, vendor and other strategic partner agreements

Employment and IP Protection

Protecting intellectual property and employee investments is vital to a company’s success. We work with clients to identify and protect technical assets and employment relationships. Our business attorneys advise on:

Stock options and other executive compensation matters
Intellectual property protection
Employment, consulting and independent contractor agreements
Non-competition and non-disclosure agreements

Funding

We can help in structuring and implementing financing arrangements to provide for a company’s start-up and growth. SB&G attorneys regularly represent clients in a diverse range of financing including:

Economic development initiatives
Conventional financing
Venture capital funding
Private placements

Growth

As our clients’ businesses transition through various stages of success, SB&G works with clients to manage growth through outsourcing, joint ventures and other strategic alliances and mergers and acquisitions. Typical growth and maturity paths of our client’s businesses involve transactions such as the following:

Joint ventures
Mergers and acquisitions
Split-ups, spin-offs and dispositions

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