Frieze Cramer’s Business Practice Group provides legal counsel to businesses and their owners in all phases of business existence, from creation to cessation.  The firm has experience advising many types of businesses, including manufacturing, professional and other services, distribution and retail. Our business lawyers regularly advise our clients on their business transactions, where our depth of experience helps them maximize value from their commercial relationships with suppliers and customers, as well as strategic alliances and merger and acquisition transactions. We also regularly advise our clients on internal and organizational matters such as corporate governance, agreements among owners, succession planning, and tax planning.

• Entity selection and structure: for example, corporations, LLCs, partnerships
• Structuring owner exit from business, including stock redemption or sale to other owners
• Business sales, mergers and acquisitions
• Corporate Governance, including Shareholder Agreements
• Succession planning
• Disputes among owners, business breakups and reorganizations
• Employment, Non-Competition and Confidentiality Agreements
• Commercial Transactions, including Commercial financing