Business & Corporate Law
Detroit-area business and corporate lawyer Mike Hamblin assists Michigan business clients with a wide variety of their business law needs. Mr. Hamblin works hard to provide his business law clients with practical and useful advice for starting, managing, and growing a business venture/enterprise in Michigan. Mr. Hamblin also provides business law clients with proactive and effective legal representation to protect his clients' business interests should a business dispute arise that needs to be resolved through negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, or litigation in Michigan state or federal courts.
Mr. Hamblin has over a decade of experience as a Michigan business lawyer, and a large part of his practice is dedicated to representing business clients. Mr. Hamblin has represented business clients of all types, from Michigan entrepreneurs and start-up ventures, to small and mid-sized companies, and even large publicly held companies. Although most of Mr. Hamblin's clients are located in Michigan, he has represented clients from a number of states and Canada.
Mike Hamblin's comprehensive Michigan business law representation includes the following areas:
Entity Selection and Business Formation/Incorporation
The choice of which legal entity to use for a business is one of the most important decisions that a start-up venture will face. In Michigan, the most common options for operating a business are a limited liability company (LLC), S corporation, or C corporation. There are a number of factors that must be considered when deciding which entity to use for operating a business. These factors include tax, legal, and operating considerations. Although it is possible to form a business through incorporation services like LegalZoom, it is important to remember that incorporation services do not provide legal advice and cannot provide their customers with legal analysis or advice on the important entity selection issues that each start-up company faces. This advice and analysis can only be provided by a competent business law attorney. Mike Hamblin provides his clients with this advice and analysis and also assists his clients with preparing and filing the paperwork necessary to form and organize a Michigan business entity.
Purchase and Sale/Transfer of a Business
Mike Hamblin has extensive experience in the preparation, negotiation, and review of business purchase/sale contracts and buy-sell agreements. Mr. Hamblin has represented both buyers and sellers in business transfer transactions in a wide variety of industries. In each business transfer matter that he works on, Mr. Hamblin consults with his clients and listens carefully to their goals and wishes. Mr. Hamblin then works hard to make sure that the transaction documents fairly and accurately represent the best deal possible for his clients. He also works to make sure that any transfer of a business is done in a way that is the most tax efficient possible for his clients.
Business Formalities and Operations
Mike Hamblin regularly provides his business law clients with ongoing legal representation with respect to issuing and transferring corporate stock/shares, preparation of corporate minutes and business records, compliance with regulatory guidelines and requirements, compliance with annual State of Michigan business filing requirements, tax issues/planning, and numerous other legal aspects of operating a business. Although some business owners do not like to deal with these items, they are important for maintaining the ongoing viability of a business enterprise and for obtaining and maintaining all of the various legal protections that are afforded to properly formed and maintained business enterprises. Failure by a Michigan business to properly follow and maintain the business formalities that are required under Michigan law can have disastrous consequences for that business and its owner(s). It is crucial that any business operating in Michigan retain competent legal counsel to advise regarding these issues.
Commercial Real Estate
Mike Hamblin has extensive experience in representing clients in a number of different Michigan commercial real estate transactions and deals. These include the purchase and sale of commercial real estate, leases, financing, and construction/development matters. Mr. Hamblin understands that from a legal perspective, the key to successful real estate deals and transactions is to fully understand the client's business goals, assertively advocating the client's position in contract negotiations, and then accurately documenting the deal reached on behalf of the client. Mr. Hamblin also understands that the role of a Michigan commercial real estate attorney is to help his client get the deal done while at the same time working tirelessly to provide his client with as much legal protection possible.
Business Succession
Mike Hamblin provides his Michigan business law clients with practical and effective legal representation in business succession matters of all kinds. Mr. Hamblin draws on an interdisciplinary approach to advise and represent clients in business succession matters so that his clients' financial and legal goals can be reached in the most legally effective and tax efficient manner possible. Mr. Hamblin understands that a successful business succession involves many moving parts and strives to work well with his clients' other advisers such as accountants, CPA's and financial planners in order to craft and achieve a business succession plan that secures and rewards his clients for the hard work they put in while building up their business enterprises. Mr. Hamblin also understands that business succession matters often involve his clients' lifework and therefore often present sensitive issues that must be dealt with very carefully in order for his clients to successfully implement a legally sound and operationally viable business succession plan.
Employment Law Issues
Mike Hamblin regularly helps his business clients through the often confusing maze of state and federal employment laws and regulations that govern Michigan businesses and their relationships with employees and independent contractors. To this end, Mr. Hamblin provides his clients with a full range of Michigan employment law services, including assistance with the creation and documentation of employment policies, employee/independent contractor agreements, employee handbooks, resolving/defending employee discrimination claims and litigation, and helping companies contest unwarranted unemployment compensation claims by former employees. Mr. Hamblin has particular expertise in advising Michigan businesses on non-compete and non-solicitation agreements and violations, and has successfully secured injunctions on behalf of his business clients in circumstances where former employees were engaged in illegal competition with his clients by either violating their non-compete agreements or wrongfully interfering with his clients' relationships with clients/customers.
General Business Transactions
Mr. Hamblin assists his business law clients with preparing, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of general business transaction documents. These documents include contracts, bills of sale, franchise agreements and disclosure documents, equipment purchase agreements and leases, licensing and distribution agreements, as well as many other kinds of general business/commercial agreements.
International Law
One interesting part of Mr. Hamblin's business law practice is his niche expertise in helping clients to establish and operate off-shore companies, particularly in Caribbean jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands. Although he is not admitted to practice law in these off-shore jurisdictions, as a result of his experience, Mr. Hamblin has a general working knowledge of corporate law in these off-shore jurisdictions and is able to generally assist and advise American clients with respect to forming and operating off-shore business enterprises and help connect them with the appropriate professionals in those jurisdictions to assist them.
Mike Hamblin works hard to provide his business law clients with the best legal advice and protection possible. Mr. Hamblin understands that a business lawyer must contribute value to their clients' enterprises and not be just an unnecessary sunk cost. To this end, Mr. Hamblin works hard to provide his business clients with timely, proactive, and useful legal representation in their business law matters.
Please contact Detroit-area business and corporate lawyer Mike Hamblin for more information on how he can help you with your Michigan business and corporate law issues.
Mr. Hamblin has over a decade of experience as a Michigan business lawyer, and a large part of his practice is dedicated to representing business clients. Mr. Hamblin has represented business clients of all types, from Michigan entrepreneurs and start-up ventures, to small and mid-sized companies, and even large publicly held companies. Although most of Mr. Hamblin's clients are located in Michigan, he has represented clients from a number of states and Canada.
Mike Hamblin's comprehensive Michigan business law representation includes the following areas:
Entity Selection and Business Formation/Incorporation
The choice of which legal entity to use for a business is one of the most important decisions that a start-up venture will face. In Michigan, the most common options for operating a business are a limited liability company (LLC), S corporation, or C corporation. There are a number of factors that must be considered when deciding which entity to use for operating a business. These factors include tax, legal, and operating considerations. Although it is possible to form a business through incorporation services like LegalZoom, it is important to remember that incorporation services do not provide legal advice and cannot provide their customers with legal analysis or advice on the important entity selection issues that each start-up company faces. This advice and analysis can only be provided by a competent business law attorney. Mike Hamblin provides his clients with this advice and analysis and also assists his clients with preparing and filing the paperwork necessary to form and organize a Michigan business entity.
Purchase and Sale/Transfer of a Business
Mike Hamblin has extensive experience in the preparation, negotiation, and review of business purchase/sale contracts and buy-sell agreements. Mr. Hamblin has represented both buyers and sellers in business transfer transactions in a wide variety of industries. In each business transfer matter that he works on, Mr. Hamblin consults with his clients and listens carefully to their goals and wishes. Mr. Hamblin then works hard to make sure that the transaction documents fairly and accurately represent the best deal possible for his clients. He also works to make sure that any transfer of a business is done in a way that is the most tax efficient possible for his clients.
Business Formalities and Operations
Mike Hamblin regularly provides his business law clients with ongoing legal representation with respect to issuing and transferring corporate stock/shares, preparation of corporate minutes and business records, compliance with regulatory guidelines and requirements, compliance with annual State of Michigan business filing requirements, tax issues/planning, and numerous other legal aspects of operating a business. Although some business owners do not like to deal with these items, they are important for maintaining the ongoing viability of a business enterprise and for obtaining and maintaining all of the various legal protections that are afforded to properly formed and maintained business enterprises. Failure by a Michigan business to properly follow and maintain the business formalities that are required under Michigan law can have disastrous consequences for that business and its owner(s). It is crucial that any business operating in Michigan retain competent legal counsel to advise regarding these issues.
Commercial Real Estate
Mike Hamblin has extensive experience in representing clients in a number of different Michigan commercial real estate transactions and deals. These include the purchase and sale of commercial real estate, leases, financing, and construction/development matters. Mr. Hamblin understands that from a legal perspective, the key to successful real estate deals and transactions is to fully understand the client's business goals, assertively advocating the client's position in contract negotiations, and then accurately documenting the deal reached on behalf of the client. Mr. Hamblin also understands that the role of a Michigan commercial real estate attorney is to help his client get the deal done while at the same time working tirelessly to provide his client with as much legal protection possible.
Business Succession
Mike Hamblin provides his Michigan business law clients with practical and effective legal representation in business succession matters of all kinds. Mr. Hamblin draws on an interdisciplinary approach to advise and represent clients in business succession matters so that his clients' financial and legal goals can be reached in the most legally effective and tax efficient manner possible. Mr. Hamblin understands that a successful business succession involves many moving parts and strives to work well with his clients' other advisers such as accountants, CPA's and financial planners in order to craft and achieve a business succession plan that secures and rewards his clients for the hard work they put in while building up their business enterprises. Mr. Hamblin also understands that business succession matters often involve his clients' lifework and therefore often present sensitive issues that must be dealt with very carefully in order for his clients to successfully implement a legally sound and operationally viable business succession plan.
Employment Law Issues
Mike Hamblin regularly helps his business clients through the often confusing maze of state and federal employment laws and regulations that govern Michigan businesses and their relationships with employees and independent contractors. To this end, Mr. Hamblin provides his clients with a full range of Michigan employment law services, including assistance with the creation and documentation of employment policies, employee/independent contractor agreements, employee handbooks, resolving/defending employee discrimination claims and litigation, and helping companies contest unwarranted unemployment compensation claims by former employees. Mr. Hamblin has particular expertise in advising Michigan businesses on non-compete and non-solicitation agreements and violations, and has successfully secured injunctions on behalf of his business clients in circumstances where former employees were engaged in illegal competition with his clients by either violating their non-compete agreements or wrongfully interfering with his clients' relationships with clients/customers.
General Business Transactions
Mr. Hamblin assists his business law clients with preparing, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of general business transaction documents. These documents include contracts, bills of sale, franchise agreements and disclosure documents, equipment purchase agreements and leases, licensing and distribution agreements, as well as many other kinds of general business/commercial agreements.
International Law
One interesting part of Mr. Hamblin's business law practice is his niche expertise in helping clients to establish and operate off-shore companies, particularly in Caribbean jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands. Although he is not admitted to practice law in these off-shore jurisdictions, as a result of his experience, Mr. Hamblin has a general working knowledge of corporate law in these off-shore jurisdictions and is able to generally assist and advise American clients with respect to forming and operating off-shore business enterprises and help connect them with the appropriate professionals in those jurisdictions to assist them.
Mike Hamblin works hard to provide his business law clients with the best legal advice and protection possible. Mr. Hamblin understands that a business lawyer must contribute value to their clients' enterprises and not be just an unnecessary sunk cost. To this end, Mr. Hamblin works hard to provide his business clients with timely, proactive, and useful legal representation in their business law matters.
Please contact Detroit-area business and corporate lawyer Mike Hamblin for more information on how he can help you with your Michigan business and corporate law issues.