Business & Corporate Advising

Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group is a small business serving small to mid-sized businesses. Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group is an experienced business law firm, capable of representing a business throughout its life cycle – from incorporation to dissolution. Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group can assist a business in such areas as: business planning, sales and purchases, contract drafting and review, equity and debt financing transactions, real estate transactions, employment matters, regulatory compliance, cybersecurity, commercial litigation, and advising as outside counsel. For those matters outside its services, Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group can utilize its extensive network of legal contacts to provide your business with trusted attorneys in specialized fields such as securities, tax, international business, mergers and acquisitions, and employee benefits/ERISA.

BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

Day-to-day operations of a business often require contracts or other agreements. The business transaction attorneys at Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group are experienced and knowledgeable at negotiating, documenting, and closing all varieties of business transactions, including:

• Buying and selling inventory and assets.
• Buying and selling a business, including stock and asset purchase agreements.
• Drafting and reviewing commercial leases.
• Drafting and reviewing commercial and residential real estate contracts.
• Buying or selling an ownership interest in an existing company.
• Drafting and reviewing private debt and equity financing agreements.
• Drafting and reviewing franchise agreements.
• Drafting and reviewing independent contractor agreements, employment agreements, non-compete and non-disclosure agreements, and employment separation agreements.
• Drafting and reviewing subscription agreements, master services agreements, software as a service (SaaS) agreements, and business associate agreements.
• Advising clients during the negotiation phase of transactions.

Transactional attorneys ensure that contracts accurately reflect the terms of the parties’ agreement, while protecting the client’s immediate interests and anticipating and mitigating future risk. While a transactional attorney often collaborates with the other party’s attorney to draft transaction documents and close the transaction, at times, a transaction can become contentious. When that happens, business owners need a skilled and experienced transactional attorney that can not only get the deal done while protecting the client’s interests, but that is willing to provide unbiased and sometimes difficult advice when compromise is necessary, or the deal simply will not work.

Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group offers those qualities to its business clients.

CORPORATE ADVISING

Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group serves as principal outside counsel for small to mid-sized business throughout Summit, Portage, Cuyahoga, Mahoning, and Stark Counties, including Akron, Kent, Stow, Tallmadge, Ravenna, Hudson, Streetsboro, Youngstown, and Cleveland. Whether a start-up or a long-standing enterprise, Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group has the knowledge and experience to provide legal counsel to business owners and executives regarding all aspects of day-to-day operations for the life cycle of the business, including when it is time to plan for retirement, sell the business, or unfortunately, in the case of divorce or death.

Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group is a point of first contact for business owners in need. Clients know that Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group is ready and available to answer questions about their business, including HR and employment matters, corporate formation, governance, partnership, and shareholder issues, reviewing and drafting contracts of all types, mergers and acquisitions, asset and stock purchases, regulatory compliance, and administrative proceedings. Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group provides sound, practical legal advice and acts decisively to address issues facing business owners to minimize risk and keep the business running effectively.

Should litigation arise, Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group has experienced and skilled litigation attorneys to represent its business clients in state and federal court, as well as administrative hearings in the State of Ohio.

Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group is a small business and understands the demands of owning and operating a small business. Accordingly, Maguire Schneckenburger Legal Group is positioned to be a trusted counselor and advocate for businesses across Northeast Ohio.