North Carolina Business Lawyers

The Van Winkle Law Firm knows that business owners require experienced legal counsel to guide them through a maze of issues. We work with public, private, and nonprofit companies in a broad range of industries to address complicated legal and operational matters and foster business growth. Our history of success stems from our commitment to understanding a client’s business and the environment in which it operates. For over a century, our objective has been to deliver legal counsel that is responsive to each client’s needs and is on target with their goals.

Forming Your Business

The foundation of every business is the structure upon which it is built. Our attorneys regularly assist clients with the choice between legal entities, ownership structures, management strategies, fundraising and capitalization, and company documents that define an owner’s rights and responsibilities from the very start. We work with a wide range of entity types, including startups, healthcare organizations, homeowners’ and property owners’ associations, and nonprofit corporations, with a focus on creating a sound structure that supports a client’s long-term success.

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Growing Your Business

As a business grows, its legal needs often similarly expand. Van Winkle helps our clients manage the demands that accompany growth by assisting with business contracts, employment and workplace issues, regulatory and administrative concerns, and governmental and municipal interactions. We regularly work with our clients’ preferred bank and other lenders to expand access to capital, and with owners of national and international franchises and their parent companies. Whether a company has general or specific needs, our attorneys provide practical guidance to address a wide range of needs, all within one law firm.

Protecting Your Business

Van Winkle knows that our clients want to protect the business success that they have built, and we can help mitigate existing risk exposure and prosecute or defend active disputes. This work often includes handling contentious situations involving customers, subcontractors, suppliers, partner businesses, employees, independent contractors, or even disputes between the owners of a company. We employ a broad spectrum of professional strategies – negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation – to resolve these issues, and provide advice on information privacy, intellectual property, contracts, and taxation matters to avoid operational disruption and instability.

Transitioning Your Business

Every business – whether one of the Fortune 500 or one with only a single employee – must plan for the future to ensure continued success. Whether it involves succession planning, transfer to a family member or key employee, purchase or sale of business assets or equity, or preparation for an orderly final dissolution, Van Winkle works with our clients to structure and document transitions in a way that protects value, addresses client concerns, and helps an owner make the most of the business they have built. Whatever the destination, we help our clients carry out the next stage of their business journeys.

We Can Help

Whether you are starting a new business, growing an existing company, protecting what you have built, planning for the next generation, or preparing to buy, sell, or exit a business, The Van Winkle Law Firm can help. We work with for-profit and nonprofit companies of all sizes across a wide range of industries to provide high-quality legal counsel at every stage of the business life cycle. To speak with a Van Winkle business attorney at our Asheville or Hendersonville offices, please contact us.

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