Limited Liability Companies

Structure Law Group, LLP advises the founders of LLCs as well as established corporations. With locations in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and Austin, TX, we are ideally suited to help new and established businesses in the tech sector. We have decades of experience helping Silicon Valley startups become major players in the tech industry and will put that experience to work to benefit your Austin company.

LLCs, as entity structures, provide investors with peace of mind and protect their interest in your company. Nonetheless, LLCs must be carefully created to maximize the benefits and limit potential pitfalls. The Austin, TX LLC lawyers at Structure Law Group, LLP provide careful business planning counsel to entrepreneurs, investors, and their companies. Our Texas LLC attorneys are ideally suited to help emerging and established businesses determine what corporate structure is best suited to their interests.

Starting a business is a time-intensive venture with a lot of paperwork and minutia. Structure Law Group provides cost-effective and efficient representation to help founders focus on the necessary tasks required to make their business profitable. Mistakes can cost you dearly. Structure Law Group, LLP’s Austin business attorneys provide comprehensive legal counsel for every aspect of forming an LLC. Below is a non-exhaustive list of our services.

Newly formed startups will need to choose an appropriate ownership and management structure for their newly-formed LLC. There are numerous options including whether or not your LLC is single-owner or multi-owner. Structure Law Group, LLP can help your Austin business form any type of LLC structure including your typical committee and board of directors type of LLC. Other options include member-managed and manager-managed formats.

It is becoming increasingly common for tech sector industries to have radically different LLC formats, including non-hierarchical approaches to workplace operations. Structure Law Group, LLP has experience with both traditional and “revolutionary” corporate structures.

Among the most important documents your company will draft is its operating agreement. The Austin business attorneys at Structure Law Group, LLP can ensure that your operating agreement is updated and accurately reflects the intent of its members. A thorough operating agreement will include elements like buy-sell provisions, management authority, tax allocations, the process of dissolution, and more.

Structure Law Group can help your company determine the best state to register your LLC, the tax benefits of registering in different states, filing requirements, fees, and more. Our Texas business attorneys can also assist you in forming other entity types if determined that an LLC does not fit your business model.

SLG attorneys are ideally situated to handle the most challenging legal compliance matters for Texas businesses. LLCs are uniquely beneficial to protect individual stakeholders from debts and liabilities accrued by the business. Our Texas LLC attorneys can help ensure that your LLC is meeting State of Texas and federal laws regarding organization while also protecting you from the potential pitfalls of operating a business.

It’s important that Austin LLCs move quickly to ensure that their intellectual property is registered quickly and efficiently. Structure Law Group, LLP knows the dangers of allowing your intellectual property to go unregistered. Competitors can use images or logos associated with your brand, register trademarks and slogans that you use, or steal unpatented trade secrets. The Austin business and IP attorneys at Structure Law Group, LLP move quickly to prevent such encroachment on your intellectual property.

LLCs are a good place to start, but as your business evolves, it may no longer be appropriate. Structure Law Group, LLP can advise you on other corporate structures that maximize your advantages and protect you from potential liability.

If you’re ready to end your LLC and move on to something else, you can dissolve your business as a state-registered entity. This is a complex process that is sometimes voluntary and at other times, involuntary. SLG’s Austin LLC attorneys can help you file the necessary tax paperwork, streamline the dissolution process, file notice to various constituencies while managing all your employment and other filings.

SLG helps Austin businesses successfully operate their LLC. Our full-service representation includes contract negotiations, hiring and firing, resolutions and consents, tax matters, intellectual property, fundraising, and more. We provide practical advice to Austin businesses on matters relating to the formation, operation, investment, and expansion of your Austin LLC.

Structure Law Group, LLP also has business litigation attorneys that can help protect your company from costly litigation involving third parties or disputes among members. We understand that keeping your business profitable should not endanger your business’s future. Our goal is to reduce costs to your business, fight for your business in litigation matters, and protect your business from outside threats in the marketplace. With a proven track record of success, SLG can help your Austin business get started or expand, while protecting you from or defending you in litigation

For more information on how Structure Law Group, LLP can meet your Austin business’s individual needs, please give us a call at (512) 881-7500 or fill out our online form for more details.