Business & Corporate
Fletcher Tilton routinely counsels entrepreneurs, startup and growth-stage companies and investors in connection with the structuring and formation of new business ventures, private placements, capital raising transactions, agreements among founders, and employment and equity arrangements with key personnel, information privacy policies, as well as general legal and business advice to clients seeking to grow or expand their businesses.
The firm advises clients in numerous industries and sectors, including construction, real estate developers, food, beverage and hospitality services, software and technology, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, management/business consulting, media, publishing, advertising and marketing, industrial products, consumer products and apparel, sports and entertainment. Fletcher Tilton serves as corporate counsel to more than 1,000 corporations throughout the country including professional, business and nonprofit corporations. The firm regularly advises partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies, providing a full range of legal services in the following areas:
- General Business Advice
- Start-ups and Emerging Businesses
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Employment Matters including Immigration
- Business and Tax Planning
- Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances
- Venture Capital
- Business Succession Planning
Representative matters:
- We serve as lead counsel for private development affiliated with construction of Polar Park in Worcester.
- Our firm has served as counsel to regional chain of 30 convenience stores for 18 years, culminating in sale of the company. Then-President and CEO of the company, commented, “I want to thank our legal counsel, Fletcher Tilton, who did a wonderful job advising the company and the family through this process.”
- Our attorneys represented a leading manufacturer and marketer of animal health and nutrition products in connection with the restructuring and issuance of $350 million in debt securities and a new domestic secured credit facility.
- Our attorneys represented a venture capital-backed InsurTech startup in connection with series seed and Series A preferred stock financing rounds in the aggregate amount of over $20 million.
- Created structure for equity infusion required to recapitalize an existing real estate entity. This allowed minority members to acquire control which was the outcome desired by all parties.
- Our firm represented the co-owner of a private business in the buyout of the business which was valued at more than $40 million.
- Our attorneys have provided counsel in sales and acquisitions of automobile dealerships ranging from $10 million to $15 million.
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Business & Corporate Resource Library
- The Corporate Transparency Act is held to be Unconstitutional by an Alabama Federal District Court. So, Now What?
- Corporate Maintenance obligations just expanded: Are you ready?
- Unfair and Deceptive Business Practices - Business-to-Business Claims
- Sales Tax Problems can Kill a Small Business
- Personal Liability - An Introduction to Causes of Action
- Unfair and Deceptive Business Practices - Individual Claims
- Business Liability Insurance: An Introduction to Causes of Action
- Corporate Liability: An Introduction to Causes of Action
- Surviving Difficult Times: What Employers Need to Know Now - PART 3
- The CARES Act: What Business Owners Need to Know - PART 2
- Stimulus Bill - Tax Relief for Individuals and Businesses
- The CARES Act: What Business Owners Need to Know
- Surviving the CORONAVIRUS: An Employer's Guide to Addressing Some of the Most Pressing Employee Issues - Part 2
- Surviving the CORONAVIRUS: An Employer's Guide to Addressing Some of the Most Pressing Employee Issues
- Minimizing Self-Employment Taxes for LLC Members
- Pushing Back on Proposed ACA Penalties
- Changes to Exempt Employee Law and Massachusetts Minimum Wage: What Employers Need to Know for 2020
- Mitigating Risks When Entering Into Contracts: An Employer's Primer
- Business Tax Rate Drops with New Tax Law
- Avoiding IRS Attacks on FLPs and LLCs
- Business Sales/Purchases: Important Considerations
- Liability Protection in 2019
- The Limited Liability Company - Today's Entity of Choice
- LLCs vs. S Corporations: The Battle Rages On
- Properly Structuring Business/Investment Entities Regarding Taxes, Liability Protection and Succession Planning
- Stock Buy-Sell Agreements
- The Pass-Through Deductions: Five Misconceptions
- Classifying Workers as Independent Contractors: An Employer's Primer to Mitigating Risks
- Set Up a Proper Intern Program