Business Formations

Axis can assist your Corporation, S-Corporation, LLC, LLP, LP, general partnership, joint venture, and other business entity with a variety of business formation matters. Businesses often incorporate in a handful of popular states, including California, Delaware, New York, Texas, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, and others. We can assist your business with business formations as well as common formation activities.

• Annual Reports
• Articles of Incorporation
• Certificate of Good Standing
• Certificates of Incorporation
• By-Laws
• DBA (Sole Proprietorship)
• Dissolutions
• Employer/Employee
• Federal EIN

• Founders’ Agreement
• Foreign Qualification
• Franchise Board Information
• Good Standing Certificates
• Incorporator’s Statements & Resolutions
• Licensing (City/County)
• Meeting Minutes
• Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Applications

• Operating Agreements
• Resolutions (General)
• Sales Licenses
• Statement of Information
• Stock Certificates
• Tax Informational Sheet
• Tax Registrations
• Zoning Applications

   Financings and Investments

Whether you are an investor, startup, or established business,  Axis can assist your business with a variety of financing and investment transactions, whether involving equity issuances, debt-based financings, new investments, acquisitions, incentive-based issuances, or others. The most common types of financing transactions are as follows:

• Asset Purchase Agreements
• Assignments
• Business Loan Agreements
• Buy-Sell Agreements
• Collateral Assignments & Security Agreements
• Convertible Notes
• Deal Memos

• Debt Financings
• Equity Incentive Plans
• Equity Financings
• Investor Agreements
• Lock Up Agreements
• Mezzanine Loans
• Memos of Understanding
• Non-Profit Financings
• Pledge Agreements
• Promissory Notes
• Restricted Stock Purchase Agreements

• Revolving Notes
• SAFEs
• Section 83(b) Elections
• Stock Issuance
• Stock Incentive Plans
• Stock Purchase Agreements
• Term Sheets

      Intellectual Property & Licensing

Axis assists clients with a wide variety of intellectual property and licensing matters, ranging across copyright, trademark, trade secret, licensing, confidentiality, and related matters:

• Confidentiality Agreements
• Copyrights
• Copyright Assignments
• Copyright Infringement
• Content-Licensing Agreements
• End-User Agreement
• Endorsement Deals

• Intellectual Property Assignment
• Licensing Contracts
• Merchandising
• Non-Disclosure Agreements
• Non-Competes
• Non-Solicits
• Privacy Policies
• Promotional activities
• Records Retention Policies
• Software Licensing Agreements
• Sweepstakes & Contests

• Trademarks
• Trademark Disputes
• Trademark Infringement
• Trademark Registrations
• Web Hosting Agreements
• Website Terms & Conditions

    Labor & Employment

Axis assists companies with numerous labor law, wage/hour, HR, and employee/employment legal matters, specifically including hiring/firing matters, employee and independent contractor agreements, and compliance with wage ordinances, and local rules.  Employers commonly face similar problems requiring legal services consisting of the following:

• Labor Law Compliance
• Wage & Hour Compliance
• Consultant Agreements
• Discipline Policies
• Employment Agreements
• Executive Employee Agreements

• Employee Disputes
• Employee Handbooks
• Employee IP Assignment
• Employee Stock Options
• Employee Separate/Release Agreements
• Employee Wage/Hour Informational Sheet
• FMLA Leaves
• HR Policies

• Independent Contractor Agreements
• Non-Compete / Non-Solicit Agreements
• Risk Management
• Sales Rep Agreements
• Terms of Use Policies

      B2B / Strategic Partner Contracts

Axis assists business clients with a wide variety of business agreements and transactions with business partners.  For business-to-business agreements, the most common types of contracts can include but are not limited to the following:

• Advertising agreements
• Agent Agreements
• App development Agreemeents
• Consulting agreements
• Contractor agreements

• Distribution Agreements
• Marketing Agreements
• OEM Agreements
• Manufacturing Agreements
• Professional Services Agreements
• Production Agreements

• Purchase Order Agreements
• Supply Agreements
• U.S. Distribution Agreements
• Website development Agreements
• Numerous others

        Intra-Company Disputes

We have experience representing clients in intra-company disputes. Whether your dispute involves investors, shareholders, officers, directors, managers, and a variety of other company insiders, our focus will be to assist you resolve the dispute as cost-effectively and strategically as possible:

• Business Breakups
• Corporate Disputes
• Directors’ and officer liability
• Freeze-outs and Squeeze-outs
• Intra-company disputes
• Investors Disputes
• Hostile takeovers

• Judicial dissolution
• LLC Disputes
• LLC dissolutions
• LLC Member Lawsuits
• LLC Dissolutions
• Minority shareholder disputes
• Piercing corporate veil claims

• Partner Claims
• Partnership Disputes
• Receiverships
• Securities Litigation
• Shareholder Disputes
• Shareholder Derivative Claims

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We have an extensive FAQ Library that covers the most common questions we get from businesses, as well as FAQs on recent changes in law affecting businesses.

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