For Businesses
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Business Organization and Counseling
Bolinger & Hogue has assisted many start-up to mid-size, domestic
and multinational clients with the establishment and operation of businesses
and nonprofit organizations. We help clients select the proper form of
organization (e.g., traditional C and S corporations or partnerships,
or one of the more recently employed limited liability entities) for the
entity's anticipated activities, taking into account federal and state
tax considerations. Once the type of organization is selected, we typically
prepare the correct documentation (e.g., articles and bylaws, partnership
agreements, limited liability company operating agreements, etc.) so that
the entity is governed to achieve our client's objectives.
For companies already doing business, our firm offers expertise in areas
of the law that may affect day-to-day operations. If our clients have
no in-house legal resources, this expertise enables us to act as de facto
general counsel. For clients with such resources, we assist on specific
projects or issues. We help draft and negotiate single-purpose or standard-form
agreements for the purchase or sale of goods and services. We also assist
in the documentation of the full range of transactions by which businesses
are financed, including public and private debt and equity deals, leases
and the issuance of convertible or hybrid security instruments.
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Business Law/Transactions
Bolinger & Hogue business practice is able to provide substantial
expertise in tax, corporate, secured transactions and financial services,
among others. Our firm is also able to provide transaction-specific assistance
and strategic counseling for a wide range of legal issues that a client
may encounter.
Our firm regularly provides counsel and advice on a wide variety of legal
issues that arise in day-to-day business operations, whether in the capacity
of "general counsel" or as regional, local, or special counsel
in connection with a particular matter. We also have particular expertise
in counseling entrepreneurial and start-up firms, including the negotiation
of business and lease contracts.
Our transactions practice provides advice concerning the formation of
new businesses, debt and equity investments in new and existing ventures,
and the purchase and sale of existing enterprises. We provide assistance
in sophisticated multi-party transactions involving development and negotiation
of complex institutional and multi-level investments and financings, from
the inception to the completion of major transactions.
Our objective is to help our clients achieve optimum legal and tax efficiencies
in their business activities. We have been involved in several kinds of
matters and instruments:
- proper business entity selection for tax and business purposes
- mergers, acquisitions and asset or stock purchases
- venture capital and private equity investment transactions
- loan, investment and shareholder agreements
- registration rights, pledge of stock and security agreements
- stock option or warrant agreements [with rachet and anti-dilution provisions]
- escrow, intercreditor, and subscription agreements
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Tax Planning
Bradley Bolinger, as attorney and CPA, advises clients in the major areas
of tax law and on a broad range of transactions. He may advise as part
of a team of lawyers working on all aspects of a project, such as joint
venture or a financing, or serve as special tax counsel to a particular
client. His practice covers a broad range of areas in representing private
individuals and families in their business, tax and estate planning. These
may include providing transactional advice, issuing tax opinions, structuring
entities, handling tax controversies before the IRS and courts, seeking
private letter rulings, advising on state and local tax issues, and assisting
on federal estate and gift tax matters.
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Nonprofit Organizations
Bolinger & Hogue provides assistance on tax, corporate and other issues
faced by nonprofit organizations and their founders, members and directors.
We advise founders on the structure of nonprofit organizations, incorporate
or form organizations, assist the founders in developing bylaws and other
operating rules, conduct organizational meetings, and prepare applications
for recognition of tax-exempt status. Nonprofit organizations include
public charities, private foundations, labor associations, social clubs,
social welfare organizations, and political action committees.
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