Corporations

The Austin, TX business attorneys at Structure Law Group, LLP provide a full range of legal services to both public and private companies. SLG is ideally situated to advise established and emerging businesses in the tech industry. Our goal is to offer personalized legal services that meet the needs of individual companies. With the resources and breadth of a large law firm, we can provide the personalized services of a small firm. We become closely involved in your business, helping you build from the ground up, or expanding into new frontiers.

SLG’s experienced Austin, TX business attorneys will work directly with companies to help them secure sources of funding, understand the changing regulatory framework in which they are operating, and help aspiring entrepreneurs with the formation of their company, including actions items like drafting their articles of incorporation.

SLG’s services include a comprehensive list of contract drafting and preparation, incorporation papers (Certificate of Incorporation, Articles of Incorporation, etc.), and more. Below, you will find a non-exhaustive list of the services we provide:

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Public Benefit and Non-Profit corporations
• Buy-sell agreements
• Bylaws
• Business contracts
• Corporate conversion
• C-corporation
• Corporate compliance
• Dispute resolution
• Equity compensation
• Formation
• NDA agreements
• Raising capital (Safe’s, convertible notes, debt financing, etc.)
• Stock option plans and employee stock compensation plans
• S-corporation
• Shareholder agreements
• Tax-exempt status (Federal and state levels)

SLG helps new companies draft their articles of incorporation, manage purchase and ownership transfers of intellectual property, and guide your company through the process of establishing itself and scaling in the future. Our attorneys have worked closely with tech companies in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley making us uniquely situated to address complex legal matters involving disruptive technologies. We are highly skilled at developing creative corporate structures that meet the needs of your business. By establishing a lifelong rapport with our clients, we can provide them with individual solutions to complex problems under a changing regulatory landscape.

SLG can help Austin startups secure funding. We will work with you through every stage of your venture. Having skilled corporate attorneys oversee the needs of your company will be one of the best investments you make in your company’s future.

SLG offers the resources of a large law firm with the personalized attention of a small law firm. We strive to help your company meet its goals. We will take the time to get to know you, review your business plan, and advise you on the best option for incorporation. Our services include helping you decide whether to file as C-corporation or S-corporation and what type of corporate structure best suits the needs of your emerging business, including your co-founders, business partners, and early team members.

SLG helps establishing companies and deal with the relevant Secretary of State, Department of Corporations, IRS, Franchise Tax Board, Employment Development Department, and whatever other governmental organizations require compliance and filings in connection with your new company formation.

SLG represents both public and private corporations during their post-incorporation ventures. Our goal is to structure each of your contracts to maximize your leverage, meet your immediate needs, and focus your goals on long-term strategy.

Our corporate operations services include:

• Contract drafting, review, and negotiation
• Data Privacy and Security (Terms and conditions, Privacy Policy, and data privacy laws such as the GDPR and other jurisdictional data privacy laws)
• SaaS and Technology-related Agreements (End User License Agreement/EULA, License Agreement, Software Development Agreement, billing terms, disclaimers, etc.)
• Corporate litigation
• Dispute resolution
• Dissolution or sale of a corporation
• Drafting confidentiality agreements and NDAs
• Hiring and firing of employees
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Fundraising
• Minutes, resolutions, and consent agreements
• Organizing board meetings
• Record analysis and review

SLG works collaboratively with all of our clients to ensure that we are addressing all of your needs. This includes protecting you from liability, drafting contracts, handling employee and executive disputes, and handling shareholder disputes, if any should emerge.

While SLG has worked closely with established businesses in major tech center hubs across the U.S., we also help startups just getting on their feet. In fact, we advise and guide hundreds of startups in Silicon Valley that have gone on to become major players in the tech industry. SLG will help your Austin startup:

• Raise working capital
• Create multiple classes of stock
• Devise stock option plans and issuing options
• Create exit strategy options

At SLG, we pride ourselves on watching our clients’ businesses grow, expand, and get their feet on the ground.

SLG offers comprehensive corporate representation to both new and established companies in Austin, TX, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles. With outlets in major tech hubs, we are expanding to emerging tech hubs to meet the needs of existing clients. While there, we hope to form relationships with entrepreneurs just looking to get on their feet and realize their dreams. However, the barriers to entry into the corporate marketplace can be overwhelming and without quality representation, you run the risk of getting buried under the red tape.

Our firm has successfully helped hundreds of corporations protect their interests and ensure their goals by avoiding many of the costly pitfalls that emerging companies face. SLG can help your firm establish itself in the marketplace and meet your goals along the way. Call the Austin, TX business attorneys at Structure Law Group, LLP today at (512) 881-7500 and we can begin discussing your options immediately.