PRACTICE AREAS
CORPORATE
The Jusmedico Law Group offers clients a complete range of legal advice and services in the life cycle of a business from formation to sale. Our focus is always on assisting our clients achieve their business objectives, minimizing risk and seeking optimum outcomes. The companies we represent range from start-ups to multi-national businesses with decades of experience. Our clients operate in many different industries, including life sciences, financial services, high tech and lifestyle and beauty.
For those of our clients that do not have an in-house staff, we function as a general counsel and oversee all of their legal matters. Our clients call upon us for counsel with respect to all legal situations and transactions they may face.
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Business Formation and Entity Selection
- Shareholder and LLC Agreements
- Equity Financing
- Debt Financing
- Technology Agreements
- Research and Development Agreements
- Distribution and Supply Agreements
- Banking and Private Loan Transactions
- Non-competition and Non-disclosure Agreements
- Corporate Policies
- Website Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies
- Commercial Leases
- Intellectual Property Oversight
LIFE SCIENCES
The Jusmedico Law Group provides legal services to the biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, dentistry and veterinary industries, life science investors, and to suppliers and service providers to those companies.
- Biotech start-ups
- License Agreements
- Capital raising and re-funding activities
- Research & Development Agreements
- Pre-clinical test (GLP) and clinical trial (GCP) Agreements
- Manufacturing and supply (GMP) Agreements
- Distribution and Sales Representative Agreements
- Labeling, advertising and promotion
The Jusmedico Law Group is affiliated with, and is the U.S. Representative Office of, Jusmedico Advokatfirma of Lyngby-Taarbaek, Denmark, and an associate of the BioLawEurope Alliance, a network of independent European law firms and individual attorneys providing legal services to clients in the life sciences industry (http://www.jusmedico.com/biolaweurope).
INTERNATIONAL
The Jusmedico Law Group has extensive experience in handling international business issues. We work both with companies based in the United States doing business overseas, and international clients doing business in the United States. We rely on our experience to help our clients navigate issues faced when doing business across international borders, and have an extensive network of international attorneys who we work with collaboratively to serve our clients interests.
- Structuring international business units and subsidiaries
- Licensing Agreements
- Collaborative Research and Development Agreements
- Contract Research Agreements
- Export Compliance
- Data Privacy
- Anti-Bribery Compliance
We have extensive experience counseling clients on issues relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), compliance with sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Asset Control (“OFAC”) and Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) laws.
BUSINESS SUCCESSION PLANNING
Building a small business requires vision, insight and a lifetime of time and effort. Unfortunately, many small business owners are so involved with the day-to-day operation and growth of their business that they put off developing a plan to keep the business afloat if they face a sudden illness, disability, or death, Similarly many small business owners believe that when they are ready to retire they will fund their retirement through the proceeds of a sale of their business, but they do not develop a strategy and have an unrealistic expectation of the value of their business. These scenarios are very common. Business owners are so busy running their business that they put the development of an exit strategy on a “to do” list that never gets done.
The sale of a business does not just affect the owner. It also has a dramatic effect on the owner’s finances, taxes and family, and the employees of the business. Developing and implementing a succession plan to exit from the business and transfer control is a vital part of every business owner’s business plan and estate plan.
We provide advice to business owners on all aspects of succession planning. Our goal is to help you prepare your company for its eventual sale and a smooth transition of ownership, and to develop a contingency plan for life’s unexpected occurrences that may take you away from day to day operational control earlier than you intended.
- Buy-Sell Agreements
- Non-Competition Agreements
- Stock Options, Phantom Stock Agreements, Profit Sharing Agreements and other Deferred Compensation Agreements
- Review of Life Insurance arrangements
- Legal audits to identify and address any issues with the business that could adversely affect its value to a buyer
- Valuing the business
- Developing a management training program for successors
- Developing employee incentive plans to retain and reward key employees
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
All businesses of all sizes have human resource needs. Employees are the lifeblood of a business; accordingly, managing employees can be one of a business’s greatest and most important challenges. The Jusmedico Law Group advises corporate clients on all aspects of their relationship with their employees. We assist our clients in managing their employees, developing competitive compensation packages and minimizing risks.
We also assist individual executives who are changing jobs in understanding and negotiating employment offers, compensation packages and the documentation they are presented with by their new employer, and assist executives leaving a company with negotiating and understanding their severance and exit packages.
- Employment and Consulting Agreements
- Incentive Compensation Plans
- Employment Manuals
- Harassment and discrimination Investigations
- Trade Secret and non-competition issues
- Day-to-day personnel issues
- Severance and General Release Agreements
- Performance of due diligence on labor matters in business acquisitions
TRUSTS AND ESTATES
We work closely with our clients to help them identify their assets and develop estate plans that ensure that their wishes are carried out.
- Wills
- Trusts
- Powers of Attorney
- Living Wills
- Medical Proxies
- HIPAA Waivers
- Revocable and Irrevocable Trust Agreements