Unlike other law firms, which often departmentalize the various legal areas impacting their clients, the attorneys comprising Payne & Jones's Business Practice Group are each able to respond to all of our client's business questions, concerns and needs. The establishment of a one-on-one rapport between attorney and client enables the firm's attorneys to clearly understand and integrate the client's overall business and legal objectives. The firm's business attorneys are also able to provide business, family and personal legal advice to the individuals who own and operate businesses the firm represents.

     From contract preparation and analysis to complex re-capitalization, Payne & Jones assists our clients in making well-informed decisions. The firm routinely provides the following services for our business clients:

Business Planning: selection, formation and operation of business entities including proprietorships, partnerships and limited partnerships, limited liability companies, corporations (including non-profit organizations), professional corporations and joint ventures.

Business Transactions: real estate purchases and sales, leases, license agreements, shareholder and owner agreements, operational transactions, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, re-capitalization, and asset purchases and sales.

Banking and Commercial Transactions: representation of lenders and borrowers, document preparation and analysis, acquisitions and dispositions, foreclosures and work outs.

Corporate and Personal Taxation: tax planning and representation of business entities and individuals at the federal and state level, including income, estate, employment, sales, use and property tax issues.

Employee Benefit Plans: drafting qualified employee benefit plans including 401(k) plans, profit sharing plans, ESOPs, welfare benefit and cafeteria plans.

Employment: employment contract, employee manuals, stock option agreements, confidentiality and non-compete agreements, employment discrimination issues, Americans with Disabilities Act compliance and labor disputes.