Startups and Entrepreneurs

Our services for startups and entrepreneurs focused on your business goals and success. As an entrepreneur, few things are more exciting than translating your dreams into reality. However, seeing your business success requires more than just a great vision, it requires careful preparation and thoughtful execution.

Helping Startups Grow From Seed to Enterprise

At Corporate Securities Legal LLP, a business law boutique with offices in Orange County, CA, and New York City, we recognize the importance of laying a strong foundation for success from the outset.

We share in our clients’ passion for innovation. Our greatest reward is the personal satisfaction of helping a business grow from the seed of an idea into a flourishing enterprise.

Business startups count on us for sound legal advice on all aspects of spearheading a new business formation, including the following.

Choosing The Right Business Entity

This crucial step will affect many aspects of your business’s operation, financing, and governance. Choosing the right entity — whether an S or C corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or proprietorship — involves complex considerations. How do you want equity interests to be allocated between the founders, investors, and employees? Which makes the most sense from a tax perspective? Which will place your business in the best position for future growth and success?

We will explain the pros and cons of these choices to help you make an informed decision.

Preparing The Legal Documents

The strategic decisions you make in forming a business will amount to little if they are not properly documented. Our attorneys prepare, draft, and review all the necessary legal documents, which may include:

Articles of incorporation, organization, or formation
Bylaws
Operating agreements
Organizational resolutions
Stock purchase agreements
Shareholder agreements
Proprietary and intellectual property agreement
Employment contracts

Financing The Enterprise

Financing is a pivotal aspect of starting a business. To establish a strong financial footing, you need to first determine and implement the right strategy for raising capital.

Our lawyers will apply legal, business, and financial savvy to assist you with all aspects of financing the business.

Client Reviews

Honesty, Integrity, Professional, Knowledgeable - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. We have been working with Gilbert on a startup for two years now. Gilbert has been patient, and knowledgeable in guiding us forward. He has generously introduced us to his Network, which has furthered our goals. Gilbert is someone...

David

Excellent value as you get professional top of the line legal services at a great price. The confidence I felt in Gilbert at our first meeting proved evident throughout the process of my start-up. He explained the process thoroughly, listened and responded to my questions with clarity, and managed...

Nate B.

He know business and law. Unlike many lawyers, Mr. Bradshaw has a deep understanding of not only law, but the effect legal choices can have on small and medium sized business, so the council he gives has the perfect balance to help you make the right decisions in the short and long term. He also...

Jonathan

Very helpful to startups. Gil has helped us get started as we are working to grow our company. He is crazy smart and really undersatnds the whole financial/startup/law world. He brings together knowledge from many different worlds that have helped us significantly. He always strives to make time for...

Laura S.

Mr Bradshaw is an expert in corporate legal advisement. Mr Bradshaw is an expert in corporate legal structure analysis and SEC law. He has been very valuable in providing us a Private Place Memorandum for distribution to investors. I highly recommend Gil Bradshaw for any Company in need of corporate...

Joe

Professional. We hired Gilbert to help us with a partnership dispute, his knowledge of corporate law and his dedication to his clients stood out as some of the many great traits we valued most while working with him. Gilbert helped us to solve the problem and come to a resolution in an expedited...

Adam

Very knowledgeable lawyer. Gil helped us throughout the process of purchasing our convertible preferred shares from a private offering through the registration and sales process.

Jerad

Very knowledgeable. Gil is a ball of energy. He helped us raise money for a project and gave us very good ideas and valuable advice. His legal bills were much cheaper than our last lawyer's and I felt like he enujoyed working with us. I will definitely hire him again.

Quentin

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