JOSEPH R. ENZOR, P.C.

A COLORADO PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW

Business Entities: Areas of Practice

General Matters
We predominently represent closely-held companies (including startups and emerging growth companies) in a wide range of business matters, including:
  • Choice of entity and company formations (corporation and limited liability company, primarily)
  • Bylaws, Operating/Membership Agreements
  • Governance (e.g., authority/voting structures, director/member obligations, responsibilities and liabilities)
  • Labor & employment law (e.g., employee issues, employment contracts, company policies)
  • IP protection (e.g., non-disclosure, ownership/assignment issues)
  • Contracts and commercial agreements (e.g., customer purchase, service/support, credit facilities, warranties, etc.)
  • Compensation & incentive Equity plans (e.g., stock options, phantom stock, compensation & performance plans)
  • Company benefit plans
  • Leases (e.g., equipment and real estate)
  • Insurance (e.g., D & O, key executive/employee/company general liability)
  • Company audits (e.g., policies/procedures, IP)
  • Independent reviews/investigations (e.g., ethics, employee/management & crises management
  • E-Commerce
  • Independent Contractor issues
Venture Funding
We represent private companies, private equity and venture funds, angel investors, etc., in a wide range of funding matters, including:
  • Equity financing: seed and follow-on rounds
  • ​Crowd funding strategies
  • Debt financing
  • Financial restructuring
  • LOC facilities
Tax Planning
The firm has deep expertise in tax law. We apply this knowledge across a wide range of legal issues on behalf of our clients. Representative examples would include the following:
  • Mergers & Acquisitions, in which tax planning should be a core component of the deal structuring process.
  • Executive compensation
  • Benefit plans
  • R & D Investment strategies
  • Intellectual property assets
  • Business equipment: lease/purchase arrangements
  • Equity Incentive Plans (e.g., stock options, phantom stock, etc.)
  • Choice of entity strategies (i.e., Corporation, LLC, etc.)
Technology-Related Transactions
Our technology practice represents the largest segment of our overall client activity, and we work with a wide range of startup and emerging companies, venture capital and private equity firms, individual IP developers & owners, universities, etc. Representative project categories include:
  • IP licensing & assignments (e.g., patents, products, technologies)
  • Technology transfer/universities
  • Joint venture/R & D development
  • IP holding companies
  • Data privacy and cyber security
  • Software procurement
  • Channel partners
  • Company & Asset acquisitions/divestitures
  • Service, support​, warranty & user agreements
  • OEM partners
Also see other project categories possibly relating to the technology environment, under General Matters (above);
Mergers, Acquisitions & Dispositions
We represent private companies, venture and private equity firms, angel investors, management, and commercial/private lenders in:
  • Stock and partnership interest purchase/sale transactions (including purchases and sales of subsidiaries)
  • Asset purchase/sale transactions (including acquisitions and divestitures of divisions and product lines)
  • Mergers
As is always the case, each transaction is unique and highly customized to the circumstances and goals of the parties.