A shareholder agreement helps owners decide in advance how the company will be controlled, funded, transferred, and exited if relationships later change. Many companies begin with goodwill and informal understanding. That is precisely when a shareholder agreement is easiest to negotiate. Once the business grows, capital enters, or relationships sour, unresolved assumptions about control and…
Company incorporation is not only a filing exercise. Founders should settle ownership, control, governance, and compliance questions before the company is created. The easiest incorporation problems are the ones avoided before filing. Founders often focus on the name and certificate, but the more important questions are who owns what, who controls decisions, how shares are…
A good contract review tests not only whether the words are legal, but whether the document allocates risk in a way the business can actually live with. Commercial contracts fail most often at the pressure points: payment, delivery, liability, termination, confidentiality, intellectual property, and dispute resolution. A review should therefore focus on what happens when…