Villaverde Law Firm can guide businesses in all legal matters.  We provide the following legal services:

StartUps/Entrepreneurs

  • Choice of business entity
  • Organizational documents
    • Charters
    • By-laws
  • Shareholder, LLC and partnership agreements among founders
  • Collaboration agreements
  • Contribution agreements
  • Buy-sell agreements
  • Restricted stock purchase agreements for founders
    • With or without vesting
  • International Property assignment agreements
  • Confidentiality and invention assignment agreements
  • Preparation of agendas and minutes for board meetings

General Corporate

  • Consulting agreements
  • Employment agreements
  • Non-compete agreements
  • Confidentiality agreements
  • Celebrity endorsement agreements
  • Software licensing agreements
  • Finders agreements
  • Independent contractor agreements
  • Master services agreements
  • Supply and distribution agreements
  • Assignment agreements
  • Joint venture agreements.

Corporate Governance

  • Preparation of internal corporate policies
    • Insider trading policy
    • Whistleblower policy
    • Code of ethics,
    • Code of corporate governance
  • Preparation of board committee charters
  • Employee handbooks
  • Employment offer letters; confidentiality and invention assignment agreements; separation agreements

Intellectual Property

  • Trademark prosecution
  • Filing copyright applications
  • Non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements to protect trade secrets
  • IP licensing agreements, including software licensing agreements
  • IP assignment agreements for intellectual property transfers
  • Invention assignment agreements for employees and founders

Transactional Practices

  • Business loans
  • Asset acquisitions and divestitures
  • Spin-offs of subsidiaries and divisions
  • Stock, LLC interest and partnership interest purchases and sales
  • Internal reorganizations
  • Joint ventures

Non- Profit Organizations

  • Formation and incorporation of non-profit organizations
  • Educating clients on various aspects of non-profit law and permitted activities of the tax-exempt organizations
  • Preparation of internal corporate documents, policies and resolutions
  • Application for the federal tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status
  • Ongoing maintenance of corporate records