Business Counseling
Commercial success is more than product or service excellence, and almost always requires diligent, deliberate decisionmaking about the venture, not just its revenue model.
Schneider offers practical solutions tailored to your business’s unique goals and obstacles to success. Below are some of the specific ways Schneider can help. I look forward to serving you.
Formations
Success starts at the first step
Whether partnership, corporation, or something in between, the correct business formation is the foundation of every profitable venture.
Let Schneider help you find and form yours.
Contract drafting, review, and negotiation
The bulding blocks of commerce
Written contracts are vital to ensure everyone involved in the agreement is on the same page.
Let Schneider help your company protect its rights and interests.
Regulatory compliance
Is your business compliant?
Federal, state, and local governments—sometimes all three—regulate most industries via a carefully-constructed tapestry of interconnected rules, definitions, and guidelines.
You have enough to worry about. Let Schneider guide you through the red tape so you can get back to juggling your employees, vendors, and customers.
Worker classification
Employees or independent contractors?
How people perform services for your business can have significant tax and other consequences.
Each government (state and federal) determines whether your workers are employees or independent contractors in a slightly different way. All are fact-intensive and multi-faceted. And the back taxes, interest, and penalties from treating an employee as an independent contractor can be devastating.
Let Schneider review your business’s relationship with those that make it great.
Succession planning
Your business after you
You’ve scrimped, saved, sacrificed, and built a solid business that should last generations. Have you thought about what happens after you’re no longer in the driver’s seat?
A succession plan for your business is just as important as an estate plan for yourself. Let Schneider help plan your business’s next chapter.
Buy or sell your business
Onto or into your next adventure
You’ve scrimped, saved, sacrificed, and built a solid business that should last generations. But maybe now you’re ready for your next adventure. Or maybe you’re ready to start it.
Buying or selling your dream can be one of the most stressful times in your life. Let Schneider guide you through the transition.
Shareholder rights
Exercise your rights of ownership
While it depends on each company’s agreements, as a part owner in the company, you are generally entitled to certain rights and other protections for your ownership interest. They are often your only protection against an oppressive majority owner or coalition.
Let Schneider help you safeguard your shareholders’ contractual and statutory rights, in anything from proxy votes to stock sales.
Rule 144 stock sales
Sell your restricted shares
As part of their initial fundraising and operations, companies will often sell or distribute stock to investors or employees. When this stock is not registered with the SEC, it is considered “restricted” and may not be offered or sold publicly unless the transaction qualifies for an exemption. The most popular one is SEC Rule 144.
While the steps to sell restricted stock under Rule 144 are straightforward, the Rule itself is complex and contains many traps for the unwary. Let Schneider ensure your sale complies with it.
Windup and dissolution
All good things must come to an end
Sometimes, for whatever reason, it comes time for a company to terminate or a partnership to dissolve.
Orderly winding up of the organization ensures finality, protects personal liability (if applicable), and smooths the shift from one venture to the next.
Let Schneider help you navigate this process.