Beals Hubbard provides a full range of corporate and transactional legal services to business clients. The Firm provides services including business formation and organization, structuring business sales and break-ups and corporate planning. The Firm represents both acquiring and acquired firms in mergers and acquisitions and advises its clients on all types of employment issues, including employment contracts, incentive compensation and equity arrangements. The Firm has experience in negotiating and drafting joint venture agreements, shareholder agreements, non-competition and non-solicitation covenants, arbitration provisions as well as sales representative and commission agreements.

Beals Hubbard's Corporate Group also represents its clients in connection with:

• Partnerships, certified minority, investor/operator agreements, limited liability companies, S-corporations, full corporations, by-laws, article of incorporation, annual reports, assumed names and other filings with municipal, county and state governments
• Business plans and funding strategies
• Arbitration, choice of law clauses, private arbitration procedures
• Non-circumvent agreements and trade secret protections
• Personnel policy manuals, employment practices training, and buy-out and exit provisions
• Sales representative, distribution and commission agreements
• Business transactions
• Shareholder agreements and business leases
• Software development, proprietary rights and licensing agreements
• Liquor license transactions
• Real estate transactions, closing documents, due diligence searches for liens or claims of title, promissory notes, land contracts, purchase agreements, Uniform Commercial Code liens and other secured transactions, loan agreements, assisting in loan transactions