Helping Business Owners "Be Someone" Since 1977

Franzetti Law PLLC provides legal services to help a business owner grow and protect the value of the business while reducing or eliminating risk. Our advice is based on courtroom experience and day-to-day involvement in actual business operations. The Firm’s services include, among other things:

  • Formations and Startups
  • Acquisitions, Sales, and Mergers
  • Business Agreements, including employment and personnel, partners and investors, customers, and vendors, and many more
  • Disputes including resolving partner disagreements and break-ups, among other things
  • Outside General Counsel services, including such things as assistance on the legal aspects of raising capital, compliance (including codes of conduct and bribery issues), and Intellectual Property Strategy
  • Exit Strategies and Succession Planning

Contact us if you have ever thought:

  • It would be great to run this issue by a lawyer quickly.
  • I’d like the services of a trusted advisor.
  • It would be great to have a General Counsel, but we don't have that kind of money.
  • I need a lawyer to help me negotiate a business venture.
  • How can we improve our contracts, so expectations are clearer?
  • Are we doing something that could get us into trouble with the State or the Feds?
 
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We pledge to our clients to:
• Help identify and solve your "pain points"
• Operate with the highest ethical standards
• Complete work on a timely basis
• Charge fees that are fair and reasonable.

Things we can do for you

Sealing the deal

Acquisitions / Sales / Mergers

Advice and structuring agreements to help pinpoint the “deal” while minimizing risks in areas such as earn-outs, a buyer or seller’s past practices, and other sensitive areas.
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Business Agreements

Advice and preparation of a range of agreements required for building business value, including those with partners and investors, customers, vendors, employees and contractors, and landlords, to name a few.
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Exit / Succession Planning

Advice to help protect an owner and build and realize value -- whether selling or passing on the business to the next generation or to employees or dealing with insolvency, death, or divorce.
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Startups / Formations

Advice on building a business with value, starting with formation of your company, selecting the best type, and getting the agreements in place that matter.
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Trademarks and IP Strategy

Help protect the value of intellectual property of the business, by NDA's, licensing agreements, trademark registration, and much more
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Disputes

Assistance on resolving disagreements with partners, investors, customers, or vendors early without litigation or representation or a referral in case litigation is required.
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Raising Capital

Assistance on the legal aspects of raising capital, whether from friends and family, banks, or third-party investors
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General Counsel / General Business Strategy / Compliance

Advice tailored to your business needs on issues from risk mitigation to compliance to success-boosting strategies, to name a few.
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Governance and Corporate Secretary

Help install proper governance for a company while you build the record of your business development, comply with IRS standards, and show investors you know what you're doing

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Latest questions and answers

1W-2 or 1099?
Deciding whether a particular worker is an employee or can work as an independent contractor depends upon guidelines, not clear-cut rules, and the consequence for getting it wrong can be costly in terms of penalties and fines, as well missed opportunities to build a business with lasting value. Read more...
2Suspicious Minds – make everyone poorer
While the political fallout from lack of trust can be debated, the economic fallout from lack of trust will almost surely make Americans poorer. Read more...
3Independence Day, Pursuit of Happiness, and the Rule of Law
Our Independence Day foreshadowed a new era, not only in personal freedom, but in recognizing rights in property and business – or the pursuit of happiness – as the Founders put it. Read more...
4Social Media -- Best Practice To Train Employees on Proper Communications
Whatever you as a business owner think about social media – be it good, bad, or indifferent – you know that your employees are using it. And not just for personal chit-chat, but about your business. Read more...
1As a business owner seeking legal services, do you want …

  • Risk reduction or elimination?
  • Protection for what you're building or have built already?
  • Peace of mind that the legal affairs of your business are well handled?
  • Realizing the freedom you sought when you started your business?

2Legal Reality Check: Getting In

If you've recently started your business - Real legal concerns and risks to building your business

Let’s see if we can resolve them - We created a checklist of 6 areas, from Protecting Assets to Personnel and Compliance items. Check items that you feel you have accomplished and get an understanding of which items you still need to work on.

Click here to download the PDF
3Legal Reality Check: Getting Better

You have been in business for a while and want to improve, so that you can become the owner and not just the manager

Click here to download the PDF
4Legal Reality Check: Getting Out

If you want to exit your business in the next several years.

Click here to download the PDF