Business Law
Business and Results -- for business owners overseeing operations, paying salaries, managing taxes, and increasing revenue, these words mean the same thing. At Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin, our team of business lawyers and professional staff have for more than forty years understood the results business owners want in successfully running a commercial enterprise.
Our vast experience includes:
- Formation of corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies (LLC's)
- Drafting and review of corporate documents
- Labor and employment law
- Employment contracts/restrictive covenants
- Business sales, mergers and acquisitions
- Employment law and employee handbooks
- Equipment leasing and financing
- Immigration and international law
- Representing creditors in bankruptcy collections
- Patent and trademark
- Construction law
- Venture capital and business financing
- Buyouts and mergers
Labor and employment laws are constantly changing. That is why Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin prides itself in staying at the forefront of matters pertaining to new legislation and the latest court rulings in workplace discrimination, employment agreements, employee handbook development, labor/management relations, and wage and hour issues.
Our ability to handle complex business financing is second to none with our attorneys regularly involved with transactions involving loans in the tens of millions of dollars. HRMM&L clients have access to some of the largest and most reputable financial institutions in the region.
Our firm offers a depth of legal knowledge in complementary areas of law such as real estate, environmental law, land use planning, and litigation, which enables us to fully and effectively protect and advocate the interests of our business clients. Our lawyers often serve as outside business counsel for clients or in conjunction with a client's in-house counsel.
What sets us apart from many business law firms is that our clients can receive full service without dealing with the morass of a large, corporate law firm. Instead, our clients deal with a medium-sized firm that offers hands-on, personal service from an attorney and support staff who knows them and their business intimately.
At HRMM&L, it's about the result.
Recent Representative Cases
- Helped the owners of a multimillion dollar manufacturing business negotiate, structure and complete the sale of the business. This transaction involved the transfer of business operations, a real estate sale, seller financing, a consulting arrangement, non-competitive covenants, and the resolution of a number of significant financial, tax and environmental issues.
- Assisted a large real estate developer with negotiating, structuring and then completing the buy-out of his partner through the purchase of stock and partnership interests. Seller financing in excess of $7 million was involved.
- Successfully helped a home builder raise funds from private investors which will be used to construct a new residential project. This transaction not only involved financing documents, but also compliance with applicable securities laws.
- Represented a large distributor of vehicle parts in the sale of its business for a price in excess of $10 million. This transaction involved negotiation of a number of employment agreements, non-competitive covenants, and obtaining approval of the assignment of a major government contract.
- Helped an automobile dealer structure and complete an ownership transfer of six dealerships to a family trust created for the benefit of his children. It was necessary to negotiate approvals by the manufacturer of each dealership transfer.
- Represented a family who, owning 100 acres of valuable farmland, decided to sell a conservation easement to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on most of the property. It was projected that the family would face significant income tax liability as a result of granting this easement. We were able to significantly reduce the tax liability by structuring the transaction so that the family members obtained large charitable tax deductions and acquired two new properties through tax-deferred exchanges. This transaction was audited by the Internal Revenue Service, which accepted the tax results in full with no changes.
Recent and Upcoming Speeches
- Presentations on "Asset Protection Planning" by Jon Samel, Mark Himsworth and Bernadette Kearney:
- Montgomery County Estate Planning Council
