Who We Help: New Jersey Business Owners
Stature Legal is a business law and business litigation firm in Edison, New Jersey, that works with business owners as they fund, grow, protect, and sell their companies.
Contact Stature Legal to discuss what is happening in your business and what you are trying to accomplish. A New Jersey business attorney can help you understand the legal considerations involved and the paths available to you.
Quick Answer: Who Does Stature Legal Help?
Our work includes:
Business financing and investment
We help you structure investments, ownership arrangements, loans, and other financing transactions.
Contracts and business growth
We draft, review, and negotiate agreements as your business hires, expands, and develops new relationships.
Business disputes and litigation
We help you address contract disputes, claims, demand letters, lawsuits, and other commercial conflicts.
Business sales and acquisitions
We assist with due diligence, negotiations, transaction documents, and closing.
Ongoing business counsel
You can also turn to us for advice on ownership issues and other decisions that can affect your company.
The sections below explain where those issues tend to arise and how they can affect your business, starting with funding.
Business Owners Funding Their Businesses
How you fund your business can shape who owns it, who controls it, and what financial obligations you take on.
The terms depend on where the money comes from and what you agree to in return.
Starting a business with other owners
If you are building the company with someone else, you need to be clear about what each person is contributing, what they will own, and who can make decisions.
Bringing an investor into your business
An investor can give you the capital you need to move forward, but that money often comes with rights attached. Before you accept it, you should know what ownership, voting power, or other rights you are giving in return.
Borrowing money for your business
A business loan lets you raise money without giving up ownership, but the terms still matter. You need to understand how the loan will be repaid, what backs it, and whether you must personally guarantee it.
Raising more capital for an existing business
As your company grows, you may need money for expansion, equipment, hiring, or another opportunity. New financing can affect existing owners' interests, add debt, or require changes to agreements already in place.
Need Help Funding Your Business?
Stature Legal can help you review the funding terms, structure the deal, and prepare the agreements you need before you commit.
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Business Owners Growing Their Businesses
Growth can change what your business needs from its contracts and other legal arrangements. Agreements that worked when the company was smaller may need updating as you hire, take on larger customers, work with new vendors, or expand into new markets.
As the business grows, questions like these often come up:
Your business depends more on a customer, vendor, or partner
When most of your revenue or day-to-day operations depend on that relationship, the agreement becomes more important. It should be clear about what each side has agreed to and what happens if either side does not meet them.
You are hiring employees or using contractors
As your team grows, you may need to address pay, confidentiality, ownership of work, and whether someone should be treated as an employee or independent contractor.
Your old agreements no longer fit the business
Contracts written years ago may not reflect how the company operates today. Reviewing them gives you a chance to change terms that no longer work.
You are expanding what the business does or where it operates
New products, locations, markets, or partnerships may require new agreements or changes to the ones you already use.
Need Help Growing Your Business?
Stature Legal can help you review, negotiate, and update the agreements your business relies on as it grows.
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Business Owners Protecting Their Businesses
Sometimes protecting your business means dealing with a problem before it becomes a lawsuit. Other times, a claim has already been made, or your company has been sued, and you need to respond.
Those problems often start in situations like these:
A business relationship is starting to break down
Growing disagreements between owners over decisions, money, or responsibilities can be signs that a relationship is heading toward a dispute. Addressing them early gives you more room to resolve the problem before positions harden.
Another party has caused your business a loss
A customer may not have paid, a business partner may have broken an agreement, or someone else's conduct may have cost the company money. At that point, you need to know what you can realistically recover and whether pursuing the matter makes business sense.
Someone is making a claim against your business
A demand letter or threat of legal action should not be ignored. You need to know what the other side is claiming, what they want from your business, and how you should respond.
Your business has been sued
Once you are served with a complaint, deadlines begin to run. Your attorney can review the claims, respond to the lawsuit, preserve important evidence, and begin building the defense.
Need Help Protecting Your Business?
Stature Legal can help you assess what is happening, understand where your business stands, and decide on a practical way forward before making your next move.
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Business Owners Selling Their Businesses
Selling a business you have built is more than signing a purchase agreement at the end. There is work to do before a buyer comes in, while they review the company, and as the final deal takes shape.
The process may look something like this:
You are getting your business ready to sell
Before going to the market, it helps to make sure the business is ready for a buyer’s scrutiny and that nothing avoidable gets in the way of the deal.
A potential buyer is interested in your business
Once conversations begin, you need to know what information you can share and under what terms. Early discussions can reveal the buyer's priorities and shape possible deal terms.
The buyer is reviewing your business
During due diligence, the buyer may examine contracts, ownership records, employee issues, pending disputes, and other parts of the company. Problems that were easy to overlook while running the business may affect the price, terms, or progress of the sale.
You are negotiating the sale
The final agreement should make clear what the deal requires from you and the buyer, both before and after closing.
Need Help Selling Your Business?
Stature Legal can help you prepare for the sale, review and negotiate the terms, and draft the agreements needed to close.
Attorneys Who Help New Jersey Business Owners
Anthony Wilkinson
Anthony Wilkinson understands many of the decisions business owners bring to Stature Legal because he has made business decisions himself. He has started businesses, worked as a software engineer, and later managed investment activities for an investment partnership.
Today, Anthony works with business owners on financing, ownership arrangements, commercial agreements, and other transactions that can affect where the company goes next. His focus is on helping you understand what a proposed deal or agreement means for your business before you commit to it.
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Daniel Bitonti
Daniel Bitonti brings more than two decades of legal experience to the business issues owners face when agreements break down, disputes develop, or a transaction becomes more complicated than expected. He has worked on commercial matters in both advisory and litigation settings.
At Stature Legal, Daniel helps business owners understand the legal position they are in and what options make sense for the company.
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Talk to a New Jersey Business Attorney
Whether you are funding, growing, protecting, or selling your business, Stature Legal can help you understand the legal issues involved and determine your next step.
Are you wondering about any of the issues mentioned above? Please call us at (732) 320-9831 or email info@staturelegal.law for assistance.
At Stature Legal, we give business owners the clarity they need to fund, grow, protect, and sell their businesses. We are trustworthy business advisors, keeping your business on TRACK: Trustworthy. Reliable. Available. Caring. Knowledgeable.®