The Corporate Law team at Thompson Coburn works with clients at every stage of their business life cycle, assisting them from formation to exit and at every milestone along the way. Whether you are launching from a concept, raising capital, navigating challenges as you grow and expand your operations, restructuring or looking to exit all or part of your business, our attorneys seek to understand your objectives, your industry, and your place in the market so we can craft customized solutions.
Our deep and experienced team regularly works with private and public companies of all sizes on the issues that affect their day-to-day operations, as well as on the extraordinary milestone events that can have significant repercussions for their businesses and their stakeholders.
Our Corporate Law team advises individuals, investors, advisors and businesses on a range of matters. We help navigate the challenges of business entity selection and establishment, while protecting the rights of business owners. We assist companies in growing their market presence, both organically and through acquisitions, and achieving their operational goals. We counsel owners seeking to divest all or part of their companies. And in the interim, we help our clients find their way through the increasingly complicated operational and regulatory world, including through risk mitigation and proactive counseling.
Our team offers comprehensive legal contract services tailored to our clients’ businesses. This extends to guiding businesses through every stage of the contracting process, from handling requests for proposals and bid reviews to negotiating terms of complex agreements. We understand critical contract issues including most favored pricing provisions, product warranty, title and risk of loss, indemnification, limitations on liability, penalties for late delivery, force majeure, “most favored nation, “events of default, damages recovery, and the implications of the Uniform Commercial Code. Our team assists clients with the design and drafting of their standard business agreements, such as purchase order terms and conditions, supplier and distribution agreements, complex services agreement, license agreements, master services agreements, procurement contracts, and other sophisticated contractual arrangements such as joint ventures and collaboration and management agreements.
Every client is important to us, no matter its size or point in its life cycle. We want to understand your business and your specific long-term goals, which we are invested in helping you achieve.
Our approach is holistic. Practicing law today requires knowledge of your industry and markets. We take the time to get to know you to be a true partner.
We work with clients of all sizes, from startups to well-established, large multinational corporations, addressing their needs efficiently and cost-effectively.
We protect our clients, positioning them in the best possible way to operate their business.
“What I love most about working with TC is that the longstanding relationship I have with my primary corporate attorney is supported by the firm’s very deep bench. Whenever I need help in a specific area, my attorney always says, “I have just the right person for that.” With each person I’ve worked with – across the firm’s offices – it’s been an outstanding experience, combining sophisticated service with cost efficiency.”
Jeffrey Brush, CEO, Avalon Transportation Companies
Working with clients to meet business objectives
Our attorneys are focused on understanding their clients’ business, allowing them to proactively identify issues and risks. We strive to understand their business goals so that we can identify issues before the client faces legal liability and costly consequences. Through small, efficient, and consistent “core” client teams, we are able to forge strong, long-term relationships, develop company-specific knowledge and experience, maintain responsiveness, provide cost-effective legal services, and facilitate true collaboration as clients strive to reach their business goals. This includes working closely with attorneys from across the firm’s full range of practices and drawing on resources from our focused areas such as labor and employment, tax, employee benefits, and intellectual property to fully address all of our client needs.
