SLG’s Portland Business Transaction lawyers work with a wide range of companies across many industries. Whether the business is in tech sector, goods and services or professional services, only the most thorough written agreements will protect your business objectives. Our services include periodic legal review of vendor contracts, to ensure that transactions are covered, updated, and sufficient to keep up with your company’s evolving goals.
With firm locations in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Portland, and Austin, we can offer new and established business multi-state representation to meet the needs of a changing legal landscape influenced heavily by emerging technology. SLG helps businesses remain profitable by insulating them from liability and maximizing their profitability.
Transactions with VendorsVendor contracts will be a major part of your business. Whether you’re an established business or an industry start-up looking to establish relationships, the Portland business transaction attorneys at SLG will help you prepare your contracts to avoid costly problems down the line. In the event that one party does not fulfill their end of the contract, we can seek remedy. Well-written vendor contracts avoid disruption to your business and costly contract disputes. SLG provides a periodic review of your vendor contracts to ensure your needs are being met and that your cash flow is meeting your evolving goals.
Transactions with ClientsSoftware is often considered a service and not a product, and services require terms of use agreements and more. IT security companies also will need to provide client contracts that delineate the responsibilities of both your company and the company you are contracting with.
While it can be tempting for companies to use templated agreements in these cases, there is no one-size-fits-all solution to client contracts and licensing agreements. The Portland business transaction attorneys at SLG can help prepare your business for potential pitfalls with ironclad EULA disclaimers, terms of service agreements, and other customer contracts.
Transactions with Employees, Independent Contractors, and Other BusinessesWhile SLG now has outlets in Austin and Portland, we started off in San Jose, CA where the labor laws are some of the most aggressive in the country. Portland shares many of the labor-friendly cultural values that California does. The law may have not entirely caught up with those values, but Portland employers are cautioned against being permissive to racism, discrimination, and sexual harassment in their workplace. These can result in employee lawsuits, damage to your company’s reputation, and serious liability. Because SLG operates in employee-friendly California, we have the knowledge and background to prepare your Oregon business for the potential misconduct of employees or supervisors.
SLG also helps businesses prepare employment contracts, contracts with independent contractors, and contracts with other businesses for labor. We can help your company avoid many of the costly disputes that arise from a breach of contract, employee misconduct, or businesses that fail to perform the work they agreed to.
Portland Real Estate Transactions AttorneyThe Portland real estate transaction attorneys at SLG know how much is on the line when your company purchases a piece of real estate. These deals often involve multiple vested parties and extremely high stakes. With so much money on the line, individual property rights placed in jeopardy, legal rights of access now clouded, and everything else that can go wrong, you will need a real estate transaction attorney to oversee the process of transferring the asset.
While it can be tempting to forgo an attorney in a state like Oregon where no attorney is required to transfer real estate from one party to another, there are services an attorney can provide that a real estate agent either cannot or would not provide (even if they could).
Real estate attorneys are not brokers. Brokers cannot predict all of the potential problems that emerge from real property exchanges. Our attorneys can provide advice on financing, the best way to take ownership of the property, manage liens on the property, or even advise you not to pursue a property that has too many issues surrounding it. A real estate broker would not offer that advice even if they could. SLG’s help has proven pivotal in avoiding bad deals and ensuring that beneficial deals made it through despite any obstacles.
Portland Tax Attorney for BusinessesHaving a comprehensive tax plan that automates the process of withholding taxes is key to avoiding tax pitfalls. SLG insulates Portland businesses from tax issues that emerge from the misclassification of assets, payroll issues, sales tax, and capital gains taxes. The best way to deal with the IRS is to avoid them completely. Innocent miscalculations can result in fines, audits, and government intervention.
Clients generally don’t want to worry about tax issues and liability. SLG provides all the support your company needs to handle tax matters effectively, ensuring your company remains safe from damaging audits.
While Silicon Valley is still considered the tech capital of the world, Portland and Austin are quickly becoming hubs of their own. With outlets in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Austin, TX, and Portland, OR, Structure Law Group, LLP can meet the growing needs of new and established businesses in the tech industry that require multi-state representation. We can help streamline costs and services and avoid damaging liability issues that threaten your business. Call us today at (503) 388-3000 or fill out our online form and we can begin discussing your goals immediately.