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 eventually 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
Structuring investments, ownership arrangements, loans, and other financing transactions.
Contracts and business growth
Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements as your business hires, expands, and develops new relationships.
Business disputes and litigation
Helping businesses address contract disputes, claims, demand letters, lawsuits, and other commercial conflicts.
Business sales and acquisitions
Assisting with due diligence, negotiations, transaction documents, and closing.
Ongoing business counsel
Advising owners on important agreements, ownership issues, and other decisions that can affect the 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.
Those questions come up in different ways depending on where the money is coming from and what you are giving or taking on 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 putting in and what they will own in return. It also helps to decide early who gets to make which 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 are personally guaranteeing the debt.
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 the owners already in the business, add debt, or require changes to agreements you already have in place.
Before you sign an agreement or accept the money, it helps to understand exactly what the deal means for you and the business.
Need Help Funding Your Business?
Stature Legal can help you structure the deal, understand the terms, and put the right agreements in place so you know what you are committing to before you move forward.
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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 to change 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 customers, vendors, or business partners matter more to the company
When more revenue or day-to-day operations depend on another business, the agreement matters too. It should be clear about what each side has agreed to and what happens if something goes wrong.
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 contractor.
Your old agreements no longer fit the business
Contracts written years ago may not reflect how the company operates today. Growth can be a good time to review them and fix 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 so they continue to work as the company 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 can be signs that a relationship is heading toward a dispute. Addressing it 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 respond to the lawsuit, preserve important evidence, assess the claims against the company, 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 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 also start to shape what the buyer wants and what a possible deal might look like.
The buyer is reviewing your business
During due diligence, contracts, ownership records, employee issues, pending disputes, and other parts of the company may come under closer review. Problems that were easy to overlook while running the business can become important when a buyer finds them.
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 deal, and put the agreements in place to carry it through to closing.
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. His experience includes contracts, business disputes, acquisitions, and other matters where the legal issue can have a direct effect on the way the business moves forward.
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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 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.®