Limited Liability Companies

Structure Law Group, LLP offers new and established Oregon companies expert representation in matters related to LLC incorporation, compliance, and more. Our firm helps emerging and expanding businesses in the tech sector meet their governmental obligations, protect themselves from liability, and establish a corporate framework that safeguards their interests as they grow.

LLCs provide investors and executives with peace of mind, protect them from potential liability, and allow you to maximize benefits while limiting vulnerabilities. The limited liability company lawyers at Structure Law Group, LLP offer thorough representation and careful business planning to entrepreneurs, investors, and their companies. We can help emerging businesses incorporate and assist established businesses in expanding.

Learn how an Oregon corporation attorney from our firm can help protect your business and keep it profitable.

Starting a Portland business requires a large time investment. The corporate attorneys at SLG can help you streamline the process by doing the heavy lifting. We will work closely with you to determine your company’s individual needs, devise a corporate structure that meets those needs, and protect you from liability, IP infringements, and more as your business grows. Below, we’ll discuss our individual services in more detail.

Startups will need to decide on which corporate structure best meets their needs. Is your LLC single-owner or multi-owner? How do you want to structure your LLC? Do you want a board of directors? Do you want a member-managed LLC? Do you want to operate on a manager-managed format?

Structure Law Group, LLP can help you make these decisions. It is becoming increasingly common especially for tech industry companies to employ “revolutionary” non-hierarchical systems for their corporate structure. SLG has experience helping firms with these new corporate structures that are becoming increasingly common in tech hubs like Portland.

Your operating agreement will be among the most important documents your company will create. The Portland corporate attorneys at Structure Law Group, LLP can ensure that your operating agreement checks all the boxes, is periodically updated, and reflects the desires of its members. A thorough operating agreement includes elements like buy-sell provisions, management authority, tax matters, dissolution, and more.

Structure Law Group was founded in California where we emerged alongside the “dot com boom”. We have since expanded into emerging tech sectors in Portland and Austin. While state laws vary when it comes to corporate laws, our business attorneys have operated in one of the most legislatively challenging jurisdictions anywhere in the world, California. We put this knowledge to use to meet the challenges of Portland’s legislative infrastructure.

Our Portland corporate attorneys will help your company determine the best corporate structure to reduce your tax obligations, protect yourself from liability, and manage filing requirements and other obligations under the state’s rules.

Structure Law Group, LLP is ideally situated to help your company meet the legal requirements of the State of Oregon. LLCs are uniquely suited to handle many challenges that your Portland business will face. They protect executives and stakeholders from debts and other liabilities accrued by the business. Our attorneys can help you devise a corporate structure that sets your executives and investors at easy while avoiding the potential pitfalls of operating a business.

Your intellectual property is vulnerable until it has been registered or patented. Structure Law Group, LLP understands the dangers of allowing your IP to go unprotected. Competitors can use your company logos, slogans, or name for whatever purpose they choose or steal unpatented trade secrets. The Portland business attorneys at SLG will move quickly to prevent infringement on your copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property.

While LLCs will work for a broad number of companies, other options are available that may provide further protection. Structure Law Group, LLP can advise you on other potential corporate structures that maximize your advantages while insulating you from liability.

Ending an LLC is a complex process. In some cases, dissolving an LLC is voluntary. In other cases, it is not. SLG’s Portland corporations attorneys can help you file the necessary paperwork and streamline the dissolution process so that you can move on to something else. 

Aside from establishing and dissolving an LLC, SLG can also help you operate your LLC. We provide representation on matters of contract negotiations, hiring and firing, resolutions and consents, tax matters, intellectual property, fundraising, and much more. We provide practical and cost-effective advice for Portland businesses forming, operating, investing, or expanding their Portland LLC.

SLG also provides business litigation services involving third parties or company members. We understand that keeping your business profitable should not imperil your company’s future. We can help you reduce costs, represent you in lawsuits, and protect your business from outside threats. With our proven track record of success within the tech industry, we are perfectly suited to help Portland businesses meet their benchmarks.

To find out more about how Structure Law Group, LLP can help your Oregon business establish itself or expand, please call our office at (503) 388-3000 or contact us online for more details.