Ready to turn your startup dream into a legal reality? We are here to guide you through your first major milestone: incorporation. Incorporating your startup is a critical step forward for your business. It supports liability protection for your personal assets, establishes an ownership and governance structure, and gives you the opportunity to attract outside investors.
Ready to turn your startup dream into a legal reality? We are here to guide you through your first major milestone: incorporation. Incorporating your startup is a critical step forward for your business. It supports liability protection for your personal assets, establishes an ownership and governance structure, and gives you the opportunity to attract outside investors.
Our Incorporation Services
At Braverman Law, our streamlined approach ensures that you fully understand the potential outcomes of every decision and establish the correct legal entity for your business needs. The process includes:
- Conducting a thorough consultation to understand your business goals, ownership structure, and unique challenges.
- Identifying the most appropriate entity type for your business (usually a corporation or LLC).
- Drafting all necessary documents, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, or an operating agreement, as appropriate.
- Advising on the initial capital structure.
- Assistance with filing documents and obtaining an EIN from the IRS.
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How It Works
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We’ll determine your business’ needs and whether we can help.
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If we’re a good fit, we’ll get to work getting your business where it needs to be.
Frequently Asked Questions
Incorporation legally establishes your business as a separate entity, providing liability protection for personal assets and setting up ownership and governance structures essential for growth and investment.
We can provide guidance on how to allocate equity among the founders, as well as prepare founder documents that address vesting and related matters.
Beyond incorporation, we offer a suite of services, including preparing offer letters, confidentiality and intellectual property assignment documents, consulting agreements, and equity incentive plans. Once we understand your business needs, we’ll be able to chart your path to growth.
Absolutely. This is a common request. For instance, founders often choose to start operations as a limited liability company but later decide to convert to a corporation due to investor demands. Tax issues will be essential to consider when deciding to proceed with this kind of conversion. Once a decision is made, the actual mechanics, from a simple statutory conversion to a merger, depend on the jurisdiction of incorporation.
