Sardar Law Firm is boutique law firm tailored to meet the needs of small businesses, entrepreneurial enterprises, and the entrepreneurs manage these enterprises. Ourattorneys assist small businesses and startupslook beyond their daily operational needs to meet their long term strategic objectives. We work with our clients, adapting to their needs as their business grows.
Startups at any phase and entrepreneurs, while dynamic and exciting, face many strategic challenges in building their ventures. Many company founders find themselves overwhelmed by a lack of understanding of common legal and corporate structure/governance issues despite having an in-depth understanding of their particular industry. Successful founders and owners of entrepreneurial enterprises most often find prosperity when they are able to focus on the core competency of growing their business.
Sardar Law Firm attorneys have experience in business planning, venture capital and angel investments, transactional needs, corporate services, due diligence, litigation, and corporate governance and structure.
SLF attorneys can assist you in:
- Entity formation and choice of entity;
- Business development and relationship structuring;
- Employee and independent contractor relationship contracts;
- Mergers, acquisitions and sales;
- Business financing, including start-up and expansion capital;
- LLC, LLP, S-Corporation, C-Corporation, and partnership issues;
- Litigation services;
- Compensation structures;
- Dispute resolution;
- Strategic, financial, legal, and operational due diligence;
- Negotiating and structuring of capital infusions;
- Pre-funding preparation, including evaluation of existing corporate structure, shareholder agreements, management agreements, and other issues to position the company for funding;
- Structuring of management relationships and agreements, shareholder agreements, and entity formation considerations to enable funding;
- Asset purchase and sale agreements;
- Requirements contracts and structuring of other long term business relationships with suppliers or customers;
- Start-up capitalization;
- Private equity and debt financing;
- Venture capital;
- Mezzanine financing;
- Mergers and acquisitions;
- Asset sales;
- Contract drafting, negotiation, litigation; and
- Board of directors structure and executive compensation.
Our goal at Sardar Law Firm is to build forward thinking relationships with clients by anticipating issues and helping clients achieve their goals without undue financial hardship. SLF attorneys work effectively and efficiently with the client and its financial, accounting, tax and other advisers.
Contact us at 917-740-5097 to set up a consultation, or email us at sardar@sardarlawfirm.com.
Additional Resources:
When Do Preliminary Contracts Bind – Sheheryar T. Sardar, Partner & Benish Shah
Forming Your Own Business – Sheheryar T. Sardar discusses developing your own business and the legal details to keep in mind. Published in NEEM Magazine, 2009.
Structuring Business Part II: From Partnership to Ownership through Islamic Finance – Sheheryar T. Sardar, Partner & Benish Shah
Structuring Business in an Economic Downturn: Part I: Islamic Financing through a Joint Venture – Sheheryar T. Sardar, Partner & Benish Shah
What Social Media Companies Should Know About the Contract – Sheheryar T. Sardar, Partner
Corporate Social Media: Why Adoption Must Be a Collaborative Endeavor - Sheheryar T. Sardar, Partner & Benish Shah, Published in Social Media Today March 2011
Social Media at Corporate Trainings: Protecting Trade Secrets - Sheheryar T. Sardar, Partner & Benish Shah, Published in Social Media Today February 2011
America’s Next Economic Engine: YOU – Sheheryar T. Sardar, Partner, Published in NEEM Magazine, 2010