Laura Mason Email & Phone Number

I am a member in the firm's Corporate & Securities Practice group, representing large companies, closely-held businesses, business owners, and individual entrepreneurs in a wide variety of transactions and business disputes. In my practice, I regularly:•Serve as outside general counsel for closely-held businesses.•Advise on variety of corporate and partnership law matters in connection with business, estate, and trust litigation.•Represent individual owner(s) in disputes with closely-held business and other owners.•Negotiate and draft numerous types of contracts related to business operations, including manufacturing and supply agreements, consulting agreements, services agreements, license agreements, financing agreements, and other transaction-based contracts.•Structure and organize entity formation for closely-held businesses, including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies, and including advising clients with respect to the state and federal tax consequences of business operations and entity selection.•Negotiate and draft documents to complete asset purchases and sales, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, and other significant restructuring transactions.•Advise on succession planning for businesses and individuals, including integrating business succession planning of individual business owners with related estate planning strategies.•Structure and draft agreements involving the purchase, sale, and transfer of aircraft. In addition to my practice, I am a frequent author and lecturer on issues related to corporate law.

Listed skills include Corporate Law, Mergers And Acquisitions, Commercial Litigation, Litigation, and 8 others.