Practice Areas
General Business, Corporate and Finance
Our clients range from closely-held family entities to local representation of Fortune 500 companies. We help clients select and establish the appropriate form of business entity, including corporations, limited-liability companies, partnerships and joint ventures. Our services involve negotiating and drafting buy-sell agreements, employment agreements, noncompetition and confidentiality agreements, leases, security agreements and ad valorem exemptions; negotiating and drafting agreements for the purchase of a company’s assets or stock as well as spin-offs, mergers, reorganizations and liquidations; providing legal opinions; designing and drafting qualified profit-sharing, pension and 401(k) plans, cafeteria plans and educational assistance plans as well as a wide array of executive compensation arrangements. In addition, our lawyers prepare private placement memorandums for filing with the Securities division of the Mississippi Secretary of State’s office; represent clients before the Mississippi State Tax Commission, the Mississippi Business Finance Corporation, the Internal Revenue Service and other governmental agencies; form not-for-profit entities and obtain recognition of exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service; develop succession plans for family-owned business clients which enable the current generation to pass ownership to younger generations; obtain and negotiate financing through the use of industrial development bonds; and provide corporate record keeping.
Our clients range from closely-held family entities to local representation of Fortune 500 companies. We help clients select and establish the appropriate form of business entity, including corporations, limited-liability companies, partnerships and joint ventures. Our services involve negotiating and drafting buy-sell agreements, employment agreements, noncompetition and confidentiality agreements, leases, security agreements and ad valorem exemptions; negotiating and drafting agreements for the purchase of a company’s assets or stock as well as spin-offs, mergers, reorganizations and liquidations; providing legal opinions; designing and drafting qualified profit-sharing, pension and 401(k) plans, cafeteria plans and educational assistance plans as well as a wide array of executive compensation arrangements. In addition, our lawyers prepare private placement memorandums for filing with the Securities division of the Mississippi Secretary of State’s office; represent clients before the Mississippi State Tax Commission, the Mississippi Business Finance Corporation, the Internal Revenue Service and other governmental agencies; form not-for-profit entities and obtain recognition of exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service; develop succession plans for family-owned business clients which enable the current generation to pass ownership to younger generations; obtain and negotiate financing through the use of industrial development bonds; and provide corporate record keeping.
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Banking and Financial Institutions
- Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights
- Business/Commercial Litigation
- Civil Rights and Public Entity Litigation
- Communications
- Construction
- Complex Litigation
- Criminal Defense
- Environmental and Natural Resources
- Estate Planning and Probate
- Family Law
- General Business, Corporate and Finance
- General Litigation
- Health Care
- Insurance
- Labor, Employment and ERISA
- Marketing, Trade and Antitrust
- Municipal, County and Governmental Entities
- Product Liability
- Professional Liability
- Railroad and Transportation
- Real Estate
- Taxation - Individual and Corporate
- Utilities
- Workers' Compensation