Comprehensive Services for North Carolina Businesses
Formation • Transactions • Planning • Financing • Real Estate
Our business practice section is among the most comprehensive in Eastern North Carolina. Our senior partner, Trawick H. Stubbs, Jr., has had a broad-based practice involving representation of all types of businesses throughout his extensive career. Our business attorneys, John King, Rodney Currin, and Amy Faber, have a combined total of 75 years of experience representing small and large businesses with respect to organizational, operational, transactional, and succession/termination issues. We have substantial knowledge in the following areas:
- Choice of business entity
- C corporations, S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and sole proprietorships
- Professional services entities, such as medical practices, architectural and engineering firms, and accounting firms
- Non-profit corporations
- Acquisitions and dispositions of stock and assets
- Qualified and non-qualified employee compensation arrangements
- Real estate development entities
- Tax planning, tax credit transactions, and tax controversies
- Succession planning
- Contracts
- Financing and securing transactions
- Banking
- Public entities, such as municipalities, housing authorities, hospitals, and mental health agencies
- Debt restructuring and workouts
- Franchise and trademark issues
- Tax-exempt bond financing
- Shareholder/partner disputes
We have recently closed, or are currently involved in, the following transactions and matters:
- A public hospital authority's tax-exempt financing of a radiation oncology center
- A diversified business owner's acquisition of a hotel property
- Syndication of historic rehabilitation tax credits by a real estate developer
- The acquisition of a franchised car dealership by a local businessman
- A non-profit community development entity's acquisition and redevelopment of a former elementary school property
- The merger and split-up of an area mental health agency
- The acquisition and financing of airport FBO operations and related fuel purchase agreement
- Organizational, leasing, trademark and related matters for a new bowling alley business
- The sale of a conservation easement by a landowner in Chapter 11 to a non-profit organization using state and federal grant money
- A corporate restructuring of a family-owned, ocean-front hotel business following the death of one of the members of the first generation of owners
- Negotiation of a settlement between a non-profit organization and the heirs of the estate of its founder
- A shareholder dispute between deadlocked shareholders of a family-owned marina business
Our business attorneys work closely with our other attorneys in the areas of real estate, civil litigation, estate planning, and bankruptcy, providing a full-service approach for all of your business' legal needs.
Contact Proven Business Law Attorneys
Our representation is built on a fundamental respect for entrepreneurial decision-making and risk-taking, and a sensitivity to the positive role to be played by lawyers in anticipating and reducing obstacles to success. Schedule a consultation today with our knowledgeable and cost-conscious commercial law lawyers at our New Bern office (800) 348-9404 or Raleigh office (800) 856-9881.
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