Small Business Services for Philadelphia Area
There are a surprising number of day-to-day legal matters involved in running a small business. If you ignore them, you run the risk of serious legal problems. But learning about them and addressing them may pull you away from what are you are best at, running your business.
Often, the most cost-effective answer is to hire a lawyer to take care of your day-to-day legal affairs. Howard M. Hyman, Attorney at Law's small business services take the burden off of business owners so they can concern themselves with other important issues.
For more than 27 years, we have served small businesses throughout the Philadelphia area, including surrounding areas of Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey. Contact us to set up a free initial consultation.
Many Legal Obligations
We can help you with all of you legal matters, large and small, including:
- Maintaining your corporate books, keeping up to date with minutes
- Issuing stock certificates
- Making sure annual meetings, shareholder meetings, and directors' meetings are held
- Keeping by-laws up to date
- Administration necessary to keep business compliant with IRS and other government agencies
- Legal contract audits
- Contract drafting and review: equipment lease agreements, purchase agreements, etc.
- Selling a business
- Breaking a partnership
- Establishing a new business
We also send all clients a checklist of things they must be sure to do themselves, including, most importantly, treating your business like a separate entity. You must make sure you have a separate bank account, checkbook, etc. for your business, no matter how small it is.
Such tasks are more important than they may seem. For instance, if you do not hold annual meetings, the protection given to your corporation or LLC will be thrown out in the event of a tax audit or lawsuit. You can lose your corporate charter entirely if you don't keep minutes of shareholder and director's meetings in a corporate book.
Contact Us
To speak with a Philadelphia lawyer offering a wide range of small business services, contact Howard M. Hyman, Attorney at Law. Initial consultations are free, and evening and weekend appointments are available.
