Legal counsel for businesses that are starting, operating, and growing
Waldrop & Colvin advises entrepreneurs, privately held companies, franchisors, and growing organizations on business formation, ownership, contracts, trademarks, commercial leasing, transactions, expansion, and business disputes.
Interactive tools for ownership and growth planning
Organize important business information, compare expansion models, understand ownership percentages, and identify issues to discuss with your legal, tax, and financial advisors.
Business Expansion Strategy Guide & Analyzer
Compare the principal structures businesses use to expand and receive a personalized assessment based on capital, control, systems, brand strength, support capacity, and long-term goals.
- Compare franchising, licensing, and company-owned expansion
- Evaluate joint ventures, dealerships, and distribution
- Identify operational and legal readiness gaps
- Generate a ranked expansion-model assessment
Business Cap Table Builder
Build and maintain a clear record of company ownership, equity issuances, dilution, financing rounds, ownership transfers, and reorganizations.
- Add founders, members, shareholders, and investors
- Calculate ownership percentages automatically
- Model new issuances, transfers, and dilution
- Recalculate ownership following a reorganization
Business legal services built around real operational decisions
Legal structure, ownership rights, contracts, intellectual property, risk allocation, and growth strategy are often closely connected. We help clients address those issues as part of a coordinated business strategy.
Business Formation and Governance
We help entrepreneurs form LLCs and corporations, select an appropriate entity and ownership structure, and prepare operating agreements, shareholder agreements, resolutions, and governance documents.
Explore Business Formation Services →Contract Drafting and Review
We draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements that define expectations, allocate responsibility, protect important rights, and reduce uncertainty in ongoing business relationships.
Explore Contract Services →Commercial Lease Review and Preparation
We advise tenants and landlords on leases, amendments, renewals, assignments, guarantees, buildout obligations, operating expenses, default provisions, and potential exit rights.
Explore Commercial Lease Services →Trademark and Brand Protection
We help businesses protect names, logos, and other brand assets through trademark searches, federal applications, office action responses, licensing, monitoring, and enforcement strategy.
Explore Trademark Services →Outside General Counsel
We provide ongoing legal support for businesses that need practical guidance on contracts, governance, compliance, transactions, risk management, and day-to-day operational issues.
Explore General Counsel Services →Business Disputes and Litigation
We represent businesses in contract disputes, partnership and ownership conflicts, business tort claims, restrictive covenant matters, and other commercial controversies.
Explore Dispute Resolution Services →Private Label and White Label Programs
We help businesses structure private label and white label relationships involving branding rights, intellectual property, quality control, supply obligations, indemnification, and risk.
Explore White Labeling Services →Mergers and Acquisitions
We assist buyers and sellers with letters of intent, due diligence, asset and equity purchase agreements, financing, risk allocation, closing, and post-closing obligations.
Explore Mergers and Acquisitions Services →Legal needs change as a company grows
A strong legal foundation should address the immediate needs of the business while anticipating future changes in ownership, financing, operations, expansion, and succession.
Form
Select an entity, establish ownership, and document governance and decision-making rights.
Protect
Protect trademarks, confidential information, contracts, and intellectual property.
Operate
Manage employees, vendors, customers, locations, leases, and commercial relationships.
Finance
Document investments, debt, equity issuances, owner contributions, and investor rights.
Expand
Open locations, enter markets, acquire businesses, license, distribute, or franchise.
Govern
Maintain approvals, company records, reporting obligations, and ownership expectations.
Resolve
Address defaults, contract claims, ownership conflicts, and threatened or pending litigation.
Exit
Prepare for succession, ownership buyouts, business sales, or strategic restructuring.
Legal guidance designed around business objectives
We work to understand how the company operates, where it is going, and how legal decisions may affect ownership, growth, risk, and long-term value.
Business-Focused Advice
We approach legal issues in the context of the company's practical operations, commercial goals, and available resources.
Growth Experience
Our work includes entity structuring, contracts, acquisitions, franchising, licensing, expansion, and ownership changes.
Integrated Legal Strategy
We help clients consider how contracts, governance, trademarks, financing, and expansion decisions affect one another.
Long-Term Relationships
We support businesses through individual projects and ongoing outside general counsel relationships.
Discuss your business's next legal or strategic decision
Whether you are forming a company, negotiating an agreement, protecting a brand, restructuring ownership, acquiring a business, or planning for expansion, our attorneys can help you evaluate the legal issues involved.
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