Business and Corporate Law

Cindy Jones represents small to mid-size companys as general counsel. She helps new businesses set up the correct entity and helps established businesses in their day-to-day legal affairs, including contract drafting, trademark registration, and legal advice. Avatar Legal has clients in a number of industries, including technology, consulting, construction, restaurant and retail services, education, media, and professional services.

Start-Up Services:

Forming Corporations, LLC’s and Partnerships
Drafting agreements between owners
Advising on business structure
Advising on licensing requirements and regulations
Advising on intellectual property issues (trademarks, business names, trade secrets, copyright issues)

Business Services:

Contract drafting and review (including vendor agreements, client agreements, independent contractor/employee agreements, distributor/agent agreements, memorandums of understanding, joint venture agreements, licensing agreements)
Commercial lease reviews and negotiations
Changes in management and ownership structure
Annual meetings of directors/shareholders minute drafting and review

Purchase and Sales

Letters of intent and purchase & sale agreements
Negotiating terms of purchase or sale
Due diligence support

Litigation Services:

Arbitration and mediation
Contract disputes
Unfair competition and unlawful business practices
Trademark and Copyright litigation

Protecting Your Business From Employee Competition

When you hire employees, you spend time and money training them to benefit your business. But you may have wondered, what can keep them from taking this training and using it to start a competing business or to take a position with a competitor.

Entity formation timeline

At Avatar Legal, forming a California entity takes approximately two weeks. We use a service to file your articles over-the-counter with the Secretary of State, it then takes the state about one week to return the filed document to us. After we receive these documents, we obtain your company's EIN and you can open a checking account in the business name. We then complete drafting your Bylaws or Operating agreement and take care of the other formation documents. You will receive the final version of these documents approximately one week later.

Click read more to view a flow chart of the process.

Primary Factors in Selecting an Entity

When forming a business, the owner needs to consider three primary factors:

Management Structure
Taxation
Liability Protection

Each entity choice (sole proprietorship, partnership, LLC or corporation) is treated differently in these 3 categories.

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Business and Corporate Law

Start-Up Services:

Business Services:

Purchase and Sales

Litigation Services:

Protecting Your Business From Employee Competition

Entity formation timeline

Primary Factors in Selecting an Entity

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