Administrative Law/Government Relations
The government controls many aspects of today's business life through state agency rules and legislation. I can present your issues for consideration, monitor and interpret the rules for changes affecting your business and assist you with compliance with the myriad rules and legislation. While the legislature only meets during the odd numbered years, it commonly appoints interim committees that affect businesses and in order to be heard on those issues it is necessary to monitor not only the legislature, but also the interim committees.
Business Entities
Michael Blanchard provides for the creation, organization and maintenance of the business entity suitable for your business purpose.
Business Services
Michael Blanchard helps businesses negotiate and document contracts, financial transactions, asset sales and purchases, and ownership transactions, as well as address corporate compliance and preventive law issues.
Energy Services
In today's deregulated electric energy market in Texas, businesses are facing increasing, unpredictable costs. Michael Blanchard has over 20 years in the electric energy business and can help businesses aggregate their loads with others to enhance their purchasing power and create a more predictable and cost efficient relationship with its energy supplier.
General Counsel Services
Some businesses need ongoing legal support, but cannot justify full-time legal assistance. I offer an innovative means for using legal services on a regular basis within a fixed budget. Experience indicates that businesses prefer a known expense for which they can budget and for which they control the services to be provided. A flat-fee arrangement allows a business to allocate certain legal efforts to thier most pressing needs while staying within a pre-determined budget. Further, ongoing legal support at fixed fee can include certain activities, such as:
- Creating and maintaining corporate policies and procedures for document retention and destruction;
- Creating and maintaining personnel policies and procedures;
- Adjusting policies and procedures for changing compliance requirements;
- Maintaining corporate records to support prompt and efficient due diligence for the next business transaction;
- Allows a business to anticipate legal issues and address them before they become a problem solved only through expensive arbitration or litigation.
Trusts, Estates and Probate
Many businesses are owned by shareholders that are closely related through kinship or friendship. Commonly these family members or close friends find that they need to plan for the transition of ownership or, unfortunately, did not plan for a transition of ownership and now find themselves faced with an involuntary transition. Proper planning often includes special provisions in wills, creation of family trusts and shareholders' agreements all with the view toward easing the issues around a transition in ownership.
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