Business Law

The legal and financial landscapes for small businesses and entrepreneurs are minefields in quicksand. Business owners and officers must often navigate those fields while enduring attacks and obstacles from the government, competitors, other businesses, and current or former employees. Douglas Koger guides his clients through those minefields acting as an experienced and trusted “General Counsel.” As his clients’ General Counsel, Douglas Koger maintains specific knowledge of his client’s business and personal legal needs and remain readily available to evaluate problems and provide advice and counseling. 

Through its life cycle, a business will experience many legal and financial issues. Those issues start with choosing the business’s initial financial and ownership structure and form. They continue through a myriad of issues involving its employees, customers, vendors, protection of intellectual property, and acquisition of real estate for offices and warehouses as the business expands and changes over time. Throughout this cycle, owners should consider and implement appropriate succession and exit plans. Finally, following a successful exit, business owners must consider methods to preserve and pass on what they have built. 

Douglas Koger can help you and your business throughout its birth, growth, and succession. His business services include work in the following areas: