Startups & Entrepreneurs

Helping You Build Your Business on a Solid Foundation

Launching a new venture can be a complicated process – from selecting an optimal business model and securing working capital to protecting valuable ideas from your competitors. Carruthers & Roth has a highly experienced team to help. Our attorneys serve as trusted advisors who can help you make well-informed decisions, remove obstacles and build your business on a solid foundation.

Our Startups & Entrepreneurs team works across a wide range of industries with a variety of early stage ventures, including family and closely held businesses. You’ll find our team is experienced in Banking & Finance, Corporate & Business law, Employee Benefits, Estate Planning & Wealth Preservation, Intellectual Property and Tax. We also collaborate with attorneys in other key practice areas in order to produce the best possible outcomes for you and your new business.

• Our Experience
• Antitrust issues
• Articles of incorporation (C corporations, S corporations)
• Asset protection planning
• Assignment of invention
• Business partnerships and planning
• Commercial leases
• Compensation agreements
• Contracts (developing, reviewing, negotiating)
• Copyright
• Debt financing
• Due diligence
• Employee benefits and employment agreements
• Franchising
• Investment groups, including “white knight” and “angel” investors
• Leveraged buyouts and private equity investments
• Licensing agreements and negotiations
• Limited liability companies (LLC)
• Limited liability partnerships (LLP)
• Mergers
• Noncompetition and nondisclosure agreements
• Real estate matters
• Shareholder agreements
• Software licensing
• Sole proprietorships
• Strategic investments and joint ventures
• Succession planning
• Tax planning, tax audits and tax compliance
• Trade dress
• Trade secrets
• Trademarks and service marks
• Work for hire agreements