Business Formation and Governance

Helping Clients Build Prosperous Enterprises

The legal entity chosen for a business can potentially affect all of its operations. In establishing a business enterprise, investors and entrepreneurs need to consider all of these ramifications in order to choose the proper form of business organization. At Rayburn Cooper & Durham, the attorneys have extensive legal experience in business planning and formation, as well as a practical understanding of business operations. They provide clear and comprehensive guidance to entrepreneurs in all matters related to business formation and governance.

Rayburn Cooper & Durham advises clients in all types of business formation and governance matters, including:

• Formation of corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies
• Directors’ and officers’ liability issues
• Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures of businesses and assets
• Business succession
• Litigation involving corporate governance and the rights and obligations of officers, directors, shareholders, and partners

As experienced and accomplished business law attorneys, Rayburn Cooper & Durham are proud of their role in helping North Carolina business people and entrepreneurs establish, grow, and profit from their enterprises. You will work with a business formation lawyer who will carefully analyze all of the facts to determine the optimal business structure for the enterprise — a structure which will best serve to protect the interests of the owners, limit potential risk and liability, and which can enable the enterprise to grow and become profitable.

As with other areas of practice, our business formation and governance team enjoys a robust stream of conflict referrals. Many referrals are for assistance in business formation matters where we can accomplish tasks efficiently and at a favorable cost. Other referrals involve situations in which the client is one of many parties to a transaction and needs individualized advice on the transaction, separate from the advice given to the enterprise as a whole. We have also represented independent decision-makers, such as board special committees, where independence from the enterprise and its traditional law firm was critical to the decision making process.

Attorneys at the firm practicing in the area of business formation include:

C. Richard Rayburn Jr.
W. Scott Cooper
James B. Gatehouse
Patricia B. Edmondson
Shawna R. Garrett
Andrea B. McGlinn

For a consultation with a business formation lawyer at Rayburn Cooper & Durham, call (704) 334-0891, or contact us online.