We esteem teamwork over stardom and firm accomplishments over individual accolades. We endorse a collegial environment where everyone helps to deliver the best for our clients. There is an important symbiotic relationship between individual success and firm success.
Corporate
The focus at Lee & Hayes is to deliver practical and valuable legal advice, in a timely fashion, at reasonable and fair pricing. Our clients range from innovative start-ups to larger corporations, from family businesses to nonprofit entities. We work with our clients to understand their business and to develop practical, timely, and cost-effective solutions to the legal challenges they face. We take special pride in our responsiveness to clients and our ability to act as an essential business partner situated at the intersection of business, law and technology.
Corporate Formation and Governance
The starting point for an emerging business is determining the appropriate legal entity to form. Such a decision requires a careful evaluation and understanding of the proposed business and relationships. Our attorneys assist clients in the formation and organization of for-profit and not-for-profit corporations, limited liability companies, limited and general partnerships, joint ventures, associations, and tax exempt organizations. Our attorneys also provide assistance in evaluating the structure of your business to meet your business succession goals.
Corporate governance compliance ensures that boards of directors and officers fulfill their fiduciary duties to their corporations. Sound legal counsel is required in order to wade through the increasingly complex corporate legal landscape, whether it’s dealing with Sarbanes-Oxley or the recently enacted Dodd-Frank Act. Our attorneys provide counsel regarding corporate governance and its implications for directors, shareholders, investors, lenders and buyers.
Securities and Corporate Finance
Our securities and corporate finance attorneys assist clients in navigating the complex regulatory scheme of state and federal securities laws. We counsel our clients on private placements and initial public offerings. While our focus tends towards counseling start-up companies with regard to their corporate structure and capital raising options, we also support clients in securities law extending beyond public or private offerings to mergers and acquisitions. We have experience negotiating, structuring and documenting business financing transactions including loans, leases, public and private offerings, stock exchange listings and filings, securities compliance and corporate takeovers.
Taxation
Our tax attorneys have years of corporate, partnership and international tax experience. We work with clients to develop the appropriate tax structure and plan for their business. With our assistance, clients are able to attain their business and personal objectives through the implementation of effective tax planning.
Business Transactions
Our attorneys have extensive experience assisting clients with manufacturing, service and construction agreements, asset purchase and buy-sell transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture transactions and membership interest transfers. With Lee & Hayes, you will receive top-notch counsel that will ensure your business assets are properly protected and your strategic goals are met.
Banking
The attorneys at Lee & Hayes have decades of experience negotiating all types of banking and lending agreements. We provide a comprehensive range of transactional and regulatory compliance services to the lending industry. We assist our clients with complex lending agreements and secured transactions, cross-collateral arrangements, priority determinations and mortgage loan transactions, both at the tax front end and the back end of the transaction.
Real Estate, Natural Gas, Oil and Mining
Our Corporate Practice Group is well versed in the representation of developers, investors and lenders in the acquisition, development, financing, sale, and leasing of real estate. Our attorneys are familiar with the taxation issues relating to real estate, and also with the myriad of zoning and other regulatory issues involving land use.
Our attorneys have prepared and drafted natural resource exploration agreements, options to lease or purchase property, joint venture agreements, oil and gas farm out agreements, joint operating agreements, and gas marketing agreements. Our tax attorneys are familiar with the special tax issues that apply to businesses engaged in mining, oil and gas exploration and development.
Wealth Protection and Succession
Lee & Hayes attorneys provide clients with a wide range of wealth protection and succession services, including business and personal income tax planning and advice, succession planning, individual estate planning and planning for charitable giving. Our attorneys are also well versed in the administration of trusts and estates.
