Licata & Toerek provides support, direction, and protection concerning the day-to-day issues affecting business entities. The Firm maintains a continuing, intimate involvement with its clients' daily business operations to ensure legal compliance, avoid litigation, and advance the interests of businesses at all stages from organization to sale or dissolution.

Support
We provide our clients with access to business-related services and resources through Strategic Alliances.

Direction
We assist our clients in forming, maintaining, expanding, and reorganizing their businesses.

• Organization of Legal Entity
• sole proprietorship
• partnership
• limited partnership
• limited liability corporation
• corporation
• s-corporation

• Corporate Agreements
• close corporation agreements
• shareholder agreements
• purchase and sale agreements
• vendor agreements
• real estate sales and purchases
• commercial leases
• franchise agreements
• licensing agreements
• distribution agreements
• stock purchase agreements
• operating agreements
• releases

• Intellectual Property
• Tradename, Trademark, Tradedress
• Unfair Competition
• Trade Secrets
• Copyright
• Patents (Strategic Alliances)

• Ongoing Issues
• insurance
• products liability
• sales, mergers, and acquisitions
• estate planning and succession planning

Protection
We protect and defend our clients' business interests.

• Preventative Measures (Risk Management)
• Distressed Business Plans (Reorganization, Sale, and Dissolution)
• Adversarial Situations
• contractor claims and liens
• collections, foreclosures, and executions
• real estate claims
• commercial and contract claims
• construction claims
• intellectual property, including infringement claims, unfair competition and trade secret protection
• minority shareholder rights
• director-officer liability