The Firm provides a full range of corporate and business legal counseling. We regularly assist in organizing start up entities, structuring equity relationships between founders, employees and investors; assisting in private placement financing; equity and compensation based programs and structuring corporate or joint venture relationships. The Firm regularly works with a wide variety of closely held businesses and counsels clients in connection with regard to internal governance agreements, shareholder agreements, buy-sell agreements as well as structuring sale and/or acquisition of related businesses. In today's environment, intellectual property rights frequently comprise the most valuable assets of a business. The Firm brings it's expertise to bear for the benefit of it's clients providing counseling on matters involving trade name and trade mark rights, copyrights, licensing agreements, product manufacturing, distribution agreements as well as strategic joint venture development agreements.

The Firm strives to provide legal counseling to its business clientele to assist it's clients in resolving and preventing problems that would otherwise harm or limit clients from reaching their full potential.

Trial Practice and Dispute Resolution: state and federal court trial practice, litigation and counseling in the areas of securities and investing (mainly for plaintiffs, some for defendants), securities regulation (Arizona, federal and SRO), securities arbitration (FINRA), banking (regulatory, FDIC and mortgage banking disputes, workouts and litigation; mainly for customers but some confidential institution representation), insurance (sales practices), real estate (ownership, purchase and sale disputes, development and joint venture disputes, valuation disputes), antitrust (mainly for plaintiffs), contracts, business and commercial torts (including statutory torts such as Arizona Consumer Fraud Act and Organized Crime and Fraud Act), representation of physicians in practice and regulatory disputes, derivative claims, trade secret claims, restrictive covenants (breaking and enforcing), certain employment disputes (contract related, securities industry related, medical industry related) and whistleblower disputes) receiverships (obtaining and defending), injunctions (obtaining and defending), and disputes involving closely-held corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships.

The Firm's commercial real estate practice focuses upon corporate facilities users and those whose primary business is real estate- investors, developers and contractors. The Firm provides full array of legal services in the areas of real estate acquisition and sales, commercial and industrial leasing, construction financing, re-development and zoning compliance as well as land use. The broad transactional and business experience of the Firm allows us to provide sophisticated and cost-effective representation uniquely tailored to each client. 

The Firm provides highly specialized and experienced legal services in the area of residential mortgage mediation. Today's real estate and mortgage crisis has left many Arizona homeowners in challenging personal financial circumstances without many apparent options. The Firm brings viable options for it's clients benefit to solve their financial challenges. The Firm's mediation program negotiates workout agreements with lenders allowing clients to remain in their homes while restructuring or refinancing their mortgage or, if the client no longer desires to remain in the home, structuring a short sale that resolves the mortgage indebtedness while preserving the credit history of the client. The Firm brings it's knowledge of RESPA , TILA and state banking regulations to benefit it's clients by effectively negotiating with mortgage lenders and financial institutions.