CORPORATE LAW
Closely held companies, both
large and small, rely on Huck Bouma for a full range of legal
services. The firm handles the myriad issues that arise throughout
the life span of a business, including the following:
• Startup challenges such as
entity selection, capital formation, and operating and buy-sell
agreements
• Growth issues involving marketing
and competition, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, hiring
and firing employees, and intellectual property
• Ongoing transactions of a mature
enterprise, including tax planning, employee benefits, executive
compensation, real property, regulatory compliance, computer
and high-tech law, succession planning, bankruptcy, and commercial
litigation and dispute resolution
• The final disposition of a
business by sale, merger, or transfer to the next generation
• Estate, tax and retirement
planning for owners and executives
Strategy depends on each client’s unique objectives
We are interested in learning
as much as possible about our clients’ businesses, their long-term
objectives and management style; not just the legal issues
that confront them. Those objectives help determine which
legal strategies we use, along with our knowledge of the applicable
laws and regulations.
The Corporate
Law Practice Group of Huck Bouma is well equipped to provide
prompt, efficient and reliable advice to our clients covering
the diverse issues which arise throughout the "life"
of any business. The fifteen attorneys who comprise
this Practice Group have cumulative experience in business
and transactional matters exceeding 100 years. Many
of our clients have been with our firm for more than twenty
years and we have guided them from initial startup operations
to become multi-million dollar commercial enterprises in various
fields of business.
Members of the Group are:
William J. Strons, Co-Chairman
David D. O'Sullivan, Co-Chairman
Russell A. Adkins
Susan S. Adkins
Elizabeth A. Bates
Brett M. Dale
George M. Bradshaw
James M. Huck, Jr.
John D. Keller, Of Counsel
Bret R. Klemetson
Nick Marsico
Timothy S. Midura
T. Gregory Mieczynski
Patricia C. O'Brien, Of Counsel
C. William Pollard, Of Counsel
Robert L. Renfro
Aaron E. Ruswick
Jay B. Strayer