Business Lawyers, Los Angeles, California

In recent times, startup businesses and entrepreneurial opportunities have constantly expanded throughout Los Angeles, California. Owning your own business can be a fulfilling endeavor, but it's equally important to comply with the required standards and guidelines.

It's a well-known fact that businesses in Los Angeles, California operate in a marketplace shaped by contracts, technology, data, regulation, and competition. Our law firm advises entrepreneurs, startups, closely held companies, established enterprises, shareholders, partners, and professionals throughout Los Angeles County and California. We help clients form, govern, protect, and grow businesses and resolve commercial disputes.

Our law firm helps clients define legal rights and responsibilities before problems arise and respond strategically when a contract, vendor, platform, partner, owner, or competitor creates legal or financial exposure. We provide transactional counsel, litigation representation, and ongoing outside general counsel tailored to each client's objectives.

Choosing and maintaining the right business structure can affect ownership, control, liability, financing, taxation, and future transactions. Our law firm assists with corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, professional corporations, nonprofit organizations, and other entities when appropriate. Services may include pre-incorporation planning, articles, bylaws, operating agreements, shareholder or partnership agreements, organizational consents, governance procedures, ownership changes, and corporate structural changes. When an issue also requires tax or accounting advice, we coordinate with the client's other professionals.

Contracts allocate risk and often determine the outcome of a later dispute. Our business lawyers prepare, negotiate, and review customer, vendor, service, consulting, independent contractor, licensing, purchase and sale, confidentiality, software development, SaaS, cloud, website, mobile application, and electronic agreements. We focus on scope, payment, performance standards, intellectual property, confidentiality, data security, warranties, indemnification, liability limitations, termination, and remedies. We also examine governing-law, jurisdiction, venue, forum-selection, and arbitration provisions because those terms can determine where a dispute proceeds and which law applies.

Technology and data are part of everyday business operations. Our law firm advises companies on website terms, privacy policies, e-commerce practices, software and platform agreements, vendor data provisions, cybersecurity responsibilities, electronic evidence, and incident-response considerations. We also help businesses evaluate artificial intelligence terms, confidentiality, intellectual property ownership, data use, governance, and allocation of legal risk. Matters requiring more focused analysis may involve California privacy laws, online fraud, unauthorized computer access, or data breaches.

When a business relationship breaks down, our law firm evaluates the governing documents, evidence, available remedies, procedural forum, and business objective. We represent clients in California state and federal courts and in arbitration proceedings. Matters may involve breach of contract, fraud, misrepresentation, unfair competition, interference with contractual or prospective economic relations, shareholder and partnership disputes, fiduciary duties, trade secrets, intellectual property, trade libel, business defamation, failed technology projects, cyber incidents, and online fraud. Our strategy considers cost, timing, evidence preservation, business continuity, insurance, leverage, and collectability as well as the available claims and defenses.

Negotiation, mediation, and arbitration can provide alternatives to trial when they match the contract, facts, and objectives. Our law firm advises clients on dispute-resolution provisions before agreements are signed and represents parties after disputes arise, including contractual arbitration and proceedings involving enforcement of or challenges to arbitration awards.

Companies that need recurring legal support may engage our law firm as outside general counsel. Services can include contract review, governance, online-business compliance, technology and data issues, demand letters, settlement strategy, and coordination with accountants, insurers, and technical consultants. Consistent counsel can help a company identify legal issues earlier and make decisions with a clearer understanding of risk.

Clients include entrepreneurs, startups, closely held companies, technology and e-commerce businesses, professional-service firms, shareholders, partners, and established enterprises. Our law firm serves clients in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Century City, Culver City, Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, Torrance, Long Beach, surrounding communities, and elsewhere in California.

Salar Atrizadeh, Esq. has a background in information technology and computer information science, which certainly enhances our law firm's work on technology transactions, data-related compliance, and legal disputes. Our law firm also publishes the Internet Lawyer Blog which is a resource selected by the United States Library of Congress for its Legal Blawgs Web Archive. So, if you are forming a company, negotiating a significant contract, addressing technology or data risk, managing an ownership conflict, or facing a commercial dispute, contact our law firm to discuss the available legal options.