My practice includes such areas as:• Mergers and acquisitions; purchases and sales of businesses. • Formation, maintenance, and dissolution of business entities—corporations, LLCs, partnerships. Entity structuring, founder and shareholder agreements, securities law compliance, corporate minutes and records, officer and director liability limitation. • Financing transactions—investment agreements, private placements, venture capital, loan and security agreements, guaranties. • Real estate transactions. • Contracts—negotiation, preparation, and review. • Intellectual property protection—nondisclosure agreements, trade secret protection, licensing arrangements. • Executive compensation and employee benefit plans—stock option and stock bonus plans, pension and profit-sharing plans, etc. • Employment law—employment and consulting agreements, employee manuals, hiring practices, employee relations, employee disputes and terminations.• Nonprofits—formation, operation, legal compliance, and dissolution.