Business Law
We provide a wide array of services over the entire lifecycle of a business. We start by learning the objectives of each client and customize our advice and services to fit the needs of the business.
Services we frequently provide
- Advising on the proper business entity
- Assisting with the formation of a company
- Drafting governing documents
- Preparing employment and independent contractor agreements
- Reviewing and drafting contracts
- Assisting with business loans
- Negotiating and documenting the purchase and sale of a company
- Dissolving a business
Real Estate
We provide prompt and efficient legal services to business real estate clients, both large and small and whether a buyer, seller, landlord, tenant, investor, lender, or developer. Our experience with commercial real estate projects is broad and varied and includes assisting clients with land acquisitions, mixed-use projects, malls, shopping centers, office properties, restaurant properties, condominiums, apartment buildings and hotels.
Services we frequently provide
- Negotiating and preparing purchase and sale agreements and leases
- Preparing and reviewing property management agreements
- Creating real estate acquisition entities, including partnerships and limited liability companies
- Forming condominiums
- Drafting and negotiating loan documents on behalf of borrowers or lenders
- Preparing subdivision covenants
- Assisting with due diligence investigations and analyses
- Performing title examinations and helping with title-related matters
- Advising on development issues
- Assisting with 1031 exchange transactions
- Preparing easements for access, utilities, lateral support, drainage or other purposes
- Negotiating and documenting conservation easements
- Preparing tenant-in-common agreements
Estate Planning and Estate Administration
It may be uncomfortable to think about, but death is inevitable, and each of us must prepare for what lies ahead. We can help you plan for the future, whether you need a simple will or a more comprehensive strategy and planning documents for dealing with a family business or responding to the possibility of gift or estate taxes.
Services we Frequently Provide
- Preparing estate planning documents
- Advising clients on matters relating to wealth transfer, asset protection, tax planning and charitable giving
- Developing wealth transfer plans that minimize transfer and income taxes while meeting non-tax goals
- Assisting closely-held businesses with ownership succession plans
- Helping executors in estate administrations and trustees in trust administrations
Health Care Law
Medicine and the law are deeply interconnected. We help health care providers by ensuring compliance with laws unique to the health care industry. We also address issues typical to any business, such as drafting governing documents or reviewing or preparing contracts.
Services we frequently provide
- Assisting with the formation of a medical practice
- Drafting governing documents
- Advising on compensation arrangements
- Preparing employment and independent contractor agreements for health care practices
- Reviewing employment contracts for physicians and mid-level practitioners
- Assisting with business loans
- Drafting HIPAA-compliant business associate agreements
- Assisting with leases between health care providers
What we Don’t Do
We have been intentional in limiting our services to those things we do well. By the same token, we want to be intentional in noting that we do not provide litigation services. While we can, and routinely do, help clients resolve disputes, we draw the line at assisting with litigation as we know there are others better suited to help.
You should know, however, that if you are a client of our firm and a dispute arises for which you need the services of a litigation attorney, we will readily find you a litigation attorney outside of our firm with experience or expertise specific to your issue. In addition, and at your request, we will stay involved as general counsel to assist you in understanding and overseeing the work of the litigation attorney.
Get In Touch
The attorneys at Hilderbran Hitchcock have earned a reputation among peers and clients for the breadth of their knowledge and the quality of the legal service they provide. To learn more about our services and how we can put our knowledge to work for you, call us at (828) 222-7400.