Business Law

Business law covers many different areas of how commercial enterprises interact with the public and other businesses. It also governs how owners form these businesses.

Business law covers the following types of business formation:

• Closely held corporations
• Corporations
• Franchises
• Joint ventures
• Limited liability corporations
• Limited liability partnerships
• Limited partnerships
• Partnerships
• Sole proprietorships
• Small businesses

Areas that business law addresses include:

• Antitrust
• Directors and officers
• Dissolution
• Fiduciary relationships
• Management duties
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Franchise relationships
• Securities
• Shares and stockholders

Attorney Greenhut's practice in this area assists and advises clients on a variety of issues that relate to land regardless of whether those issues involve a small dwelling or a large shopping center.

Some examples of the services provided in this area are:

• Reviewing and preparing agreements to buy and sell property.
• Reviewing and preparing leases for property, whether residential, commercial, or industrial.
• Reviewing and preparing condominium agreements, whether for residential or commercial condominiums.
• Reviewing and preparing construction agreements.
• Evaluating the title to the property.
• Facilitating the financing (usually through a mortgage) for the purchase.
• Conducting the closing on the purchase of property.
• Pursuing rezoning of property or other actions necessary to facilitate commercial development.
• Assisting clients in receiving just compensation for their property when the property is taken by eminent domain.
• Preparing documents to settle disputes between adjoining land owners.
• Handling the foreclosure of mortgages when a borrower defaults on his or her payments to the lender.

Experienced and equipped to advise and represent businesses with pre-bankruptcy planning and strategy, bankruptcy litigation, collateral disposition and post-bankruptcy financial restructuring. As a debt relief agency, we can help you file for bankruptcy relief under the Bankruptcy Code.

Attorney Greenhut represents business and individual clients in the following areas:

• Bankruptcy procedures for businesses
• Defending actions for preferences and fraudulent conveyances
• Moving for relief from the automatic stay
• Negotiating financing and cash collateral agreements, workouts and restructuring
• Purchasing assets out of bankruptcy
• Commercial litigation, including debt collection and recovery of assets
• Asset sales and debt restructuring