Mayer LLP, ALFA International’s member firm in Houston, Texas, clients run the gamut from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, and everything in between. Clients of all sizes appreciate the firm’s flexibility; it gives Mayer LLP the agility to deliver the precise scope of capabilities and advice they need.
Types of corporate transactions in which our firm has particular expertise
Mayer LLP works on corporate transactions including:
- Prepare and negotiate contracts including master service agreements, vendor agreements, independent contractor agreements, etc.
- Due diligence
- Stock purchase and asset sales
- Corporate formations, operating agreements, shareholder agreements
- Advise on risk management and liability concerns
- Develop corporate policies and procedures and counsel on related legal risk
- Resolution of disputes and litigation
- Purchase agreements and debt collection
- Prepare, review, and negotiate employment contracts, including non-compete and non-solicitation agreements
- Employee handbooks
- Product safety program work, including evaluate and draft warnings, instructions, and labels, prepare risk transfer documents and agreements
- Cybersecurity risk management, preparation of cybersecurity plans
- HIPAA compliance and risk management
- Trademark consultation and filing, including enforcement and litigation
The size of our firm’s corporate transactions team
Mayer LLP has three attorneys who work on corporate transaction matters.
Examples of transactions our firm has undertaken
- Represented 50% shareholders of a granite company in the hostile purchase of co-owners’ interest
- Represented a counseling firm in the purchase of several other counseling businesses and advised regarding restructuring the businesses with a parent and subsidiaries, advised about succession issues
- Represented a manufacturer of custom saws in the purchase of a sharpening business, advised the company on risk management issues including revised and updated the owner’s manual, drafted a new customer contract and contractor agreement, among other documents
- Represented commercial tenants in negotiating and revising lease agreements
- Represented a phone company in drafting and negotiating contracts and services agreements for call centers, customer service communications systems, and complex voice recognition software