Professional Experience. Exceptional Results.
One of Oregon’s largest Elder Law and Estate Planning firms with 80+ years of experience serving the Pacific Northwest, Fitzwater Law provides friendly, responsive, and high-quality legal counsel for your probate, special needs planning, guardianship/conservatorship, and Medicaid needs. We are committed to aiding and educating our community and serving as a reliable source of information and assistance.
BUSINESS LAW
Business Law Group
Fitzwater Law provides a variety of legal services for small and family-owned businesses, working with business clients through the formation, development, succession, and sale of their businesses. Whether you are starting a new business and need assistance selecting and forming a new business entity, working to establish a new trademark, negotiating contracts or licenses, planning a transfer of ownership, or winding up your business, Fitzwater can help you move forward.
Specific services we provide include:
• Advice in selecting the type of legal entity that is right for your business.
• Legal formation of Oregon and Washington Corporations, Limited Liability Companies (LLCs), and other business entities.
• Preparation of shareholder (“buy-sell”) agreements, LLC operating agreements, and other agreements between interest holders.
• Preparing deeds for the transfer of real property.
• Advice on the assessment, development, and protection of intellectual property.
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating license agreements and other contracts.
• Federal Copyright and Trademark Registrations.
• Agreements for transferring assets, stock, and other business interests.
• Business succession planning.
• Assistance with dissolving and winding up business entities.