The business lifecycle
Helping businesses move forward at every stage.
Starting, operating, buying, selling, or closing a business requires legal advice connected to commercial reality.
The firm approaches each engagement with attention to cost, timing, risk, and the long-term health of the enterprise. Advice is tailored to the company’s structure, agreements, assets, and goals.
Legal decisions shape a company from its first filing through growth, transition, and potential conflict. D Mallett Law helps business owners evaluate options, protect value, and move forward with clear priorities.
How the firm can help
- Business formation and entity selection
- Contracts, governance, and ongoing operations
- Business purchases, sales, and dissolutions
- Commercial disputes and litigation strategy
Comprehensive support
Business matters the firm can evaluate.
From planning and documentation to negotiation and courtroom advocacy, the firm provides focused support for consequential business decisions.
Entity formation and governance
Evaluation of LLCs, corporations, partnerships, and other structures, together with formation filings and practical governance planning.
Contracts and daily operations
Drafting, review, and negotiation of commercial agreements, with guidance on obligations, business assets, and recurring operational issues.
Commercial leases and property
Counsel on lease terms, business premises, property-related obligations, and the legal issues that can affect continued operations.
Purchases, sales, and dissolution
Guidance through business acquisitions, ownership transfers, sales, breakups, and orderly wind-downs, with close attention to value and exposure.
Succession planning
Planning for continuity in family-owned and closely held companies, including coordination with estate-planning objectives and ownership transitions.
Commercial disputes and litigation
Strategy for contract claims, partnership disagreements, business breakups, negotiation, mediation, motion practice, and trial when necessary.
Business-minded counsel
Legal strategy aligned with the enterprise.
A sound legal response should account for the company’s operations, relationships, reputation, and bottom line—not just the immediate document or dispute. The firm works to identify practical resolutions while preserving the ability to litigate when required.
Attentive representation
Clear advice for decisions that cannot wait.
Clients receive direct communication, careful preparation, and a strategy revisited as circumstances change. The objective is to keep each legal step connected to the client’s commercial goals.
Discuss a Business MatterThis information is general and is not legal advice. The appropriate documents, claims, defenses, and strategies depend on the client’s objectives, facts, and applicable law.