PROTECTING COMPANY INTERESTS

The most valuable assets of a company are frequently those that cannot be seen or touched. The attorneys at Florida Business Litigation (a division of Marcaids Singer PA) are sensitive to the needs of the firm’s clients in terms of intellectual property asset protection and critical business relationships. Our decades of legal experience and meticulous attention to detail ensure that clients’ valuable rights are protected.

Protecting Commercial Rights and Relationships

The days of successfully reaching a business agreement through discussion and sealing it with a handshake are long gone. Commerce is becoming increasingly global, and the web of relationships globalization enables is becoming increasingly complex. Litigation in business diverts resources away from the goals of the company. Careful negotiation, drafting, and review of agreements can clarify the parties’ rights and responsibilities before “closing the deal” avoid unnecessary litigation.

Florida Business Litigation (a division of Marcadis Singer PA) has assisted numerous businesses in defining their obligations and rights, protecting their interests, and preserving the critical relationships that allow them to operate profitably. Among the services offered to clients by the firm are:

• Corporate formation documents, bylaws, and resolutions are reviewed.
• Operating agreements negotiated and reviewed.
• Non-competition and non-disclosure agreements drafted or reviewed
• Advising stockholders on disputes with other owners of closely held companies
• Employment agreements, including executive employment agreements, negotiated and reviewed.
• Leases for commercial real estate creation or review.
• Conducting statutory, regulatory, and case law research to advise clients on potential liability exposure.
• Contracts between a company and its suppliers, service providers, employees, and customers written or thoroughly reviewed and updated.
• A comprehensive review and restructuring of a group of family-owned businesses’ corporate status, structure, and ownership
• Defending Intellectual Property and Brand Names
• Florida Business Litigation (a division of Marcadis Singer PA) can represent clients in a variety of trademark, licensing, and other intellectual property matters, including:
• Agreements to assign intellectual property
• Searches for international and domestic trademarks
• Trademark preparation, filing, and prosecution for media technology companies, authors, entrepreneurs, and others.
• Protection of trademarks
• Trademark coexistence agreements are negotiated and reviewed.
• Brand-name recommendations
• Agreements for Development
• Agreements for consulting services
• Agreements for master services
• Non-competition agreements (NCAs)
• Regulations pertaining to patent rights are being reviewed.
• Examine the intellectual property provisions of manufacturing contracts
• Software as a service (SaaS) agreements Software licensing agreements
• Agreements for the advancement of technology
• Terms of service and privacy policies for websites