Golkow Business Law

Empowering Your Business

Experienced counsel across the life cycle of a company, with practical advice grounded in business realities.

Businesses rarely encounter legal issues one at a time. A transaction may involve financing, employment, intellectual property, tax, governance, and regulatory issues. A dispute may require both litigation strategy and a negotiated business solution.

Transactions

Mergers & Acquisitions

Curt's M&A practice is national, representing clients across the country. He represents sellers and buyers across a wide range of industries, from straightforward transactions to complex, highly negotiated, and distressed deals.

Representing Sellers

Curt represents owners and companies selling their businesses, helping them evaluate offers, structure transactions, conduct an efficient sale process, negotiate definitive agreements, and manage the legal issues that arise through closing.

Representing Buyers

Curt represents buyers in acquisitions, including transaction structuring, due diligence, negotiation, financing, regulatory considerations, and closing.

Private Equity & Venture Capital

Representation of founders, funds, investors, management teams, and portfolio companies in fund formation, investments, follow-on financings, governance, and exits.

Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances

Structuring, negotiating, and documenting customized relationships involving licensing, manufacturing, distribution, product development, marketing, and other collaborations.

Franchises

Evaluating franchise opportunities, negotiating franchise and development agreements, organizing the business, and handling acquisitions, sales, and franchise disputes.

Business Counsel

Business Organization & Governance

Entity selection, ownership and management structures, shareholder and operating agreements, buy-sell arrangements, boards, committees, and fiduciary-duty matters.

Commercial Contracts & Transactions

Drafting and negotiating vendor, supplier, technology, licensing, manufacturing, distribution, consulting, confidentiality, and other commercial agreements.

Outside General Counsel

Ongoing legal and strategic advice to owners and management teams that need experienced counsel without a full-time general counsel.

Strategic Planning

Counsel concerning new ventures, acquisitions, expansion, divestitures, exit strategies, and other major business decisions.

Growth & Transition

Emerging Companies & Start-Ups

Formation, governance, financing, contracts, and practical legal infrastructure for companies at the early and expansion stages.

Succession Planning

Customized transition plans for family-owned companies and businesses being transferred to management or key employees.

Real Estate Transactions

Land acquisition, financing, leasing, management, and entity structures involving commercial and industrial real estate.

Nonprofit Organizations

Formation, governance, tax-exempt status, and commercial transactions involving nonprofit organizations.

Finance

Capital Raising

Debt and equity financing from early-stage capital through venture capital, growth equity, and other private investments, including related securities-law matters.

Lending & Finance

Representation of borrowers, lenders, and investors in secured lending, asset-based facilities, equipment financing, factoring, purchase-order financing, mezzanine financing, venture debt, and workouts.

Employment and Service Relationships

Employment Matters

Employment agreements, terminations, restrictive covenants, confidentiality, trade secrets, workplace policies, and related business issues.

Executive Compensation

Equity compensation, phantom equity, incentive bonuses, deferred compensation, retention arrangements, and executive severance.

Restrictive Covenants

Non-competition, non-solicitation, confidentiality, non-interference, non-disparagement, and related protections for business relationships and confidential information.

Disputes

Business Disputes

Strategic management of disputes among owners and commercial disputes arising from transactions, contracts, earn-outs, indemnification, restrictive covenants, and other business relationships.

Business Divorce

Curt's business-divorce practice is national, representing clients across the country. He handles partner, shareholder, and LLC disputes, buyouts, governance issues, and customized business “pre-nup” planning. Learn more →

Litigation Strategy & Management

Curt works with clients and litigation counsel to connect commercial litigation strategy to the client's underlying business objectives and, where possible, a commercially sound resolution.

Have a business issue to discuss?

The best time to involve experienced business counsel is often before a problem becomes a crisis.

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