Lawrence Evans, Attorney

Mr. Evans' practice focuses on meeting the wide range of needs of small to medium size businesses. He has specialized expertise and spends the majority of his professional time serving clients in the following areas:

• Mergers and acquisitions - representing buyers and sellers of businesses.
• Strategic alliances - In this era of business focus and specialization, Mr. Evans has played a leading role in negotiating and drafting documents related to strategic alliances and corporate partnering.
• Contracts - Drafting and negotiating a wide variety of contracts affecting a broad spectrum of industries.
• Commercial real estate - representing buyers, sellers, lessors and lessees of commercial real estate.
• Start-up and emerging growth companies - formation of corporations and limited liability companies; drafting of shareholder, operating, partnership and other agreements relating to internal structure; venture capital and other financings.
• Human resources/employer-employee relations - drafting employee handbooks; advising clients on human resource issues; drafting employment, separation and other related agreements.
• Nonprofit and tax exempt organizations - formation of nonprofit corporations; preparation and filing of tax exempt status application with the Internal Revenue Service; preventive advice and counsel on issues and potential liability areas unique to nonprofit entities.
• Computer and technology law - negotiating and drafting software licenses, and software maintenance, distribution, OEM, development, nondisclosure, joint marketing and source code escrow agreements.

Although Mr. Evans does not limit his practice to any particular industries, he has developed specialized client bases in representing automobile dealers and advertising agencies, and other service oriented businesses.