We provide a wide variety of legal services related to various types of corporate and business transactions. We work with clients through the various stages of corporate and business transactions, while staying focused on achieving the client’s goals through the legal, regulatory landscape. In contrast with firms and attorneys that solely focus on corporate & business transaction and not more, Sarmasti PLLC’s business litigation experience provides additional insight and advantage to clients during contract and transaction negotiations and closings: Namely, having the added litigation experience provides Sarmasti PLLC the ability to identify those types of contractual terms or obligations that cause future problems or may not be defensible.
Sarmasti PLLC represents clients engaged in a wide variety of professions and industries such as healthcare, wholesale, retail, manufacturing, construction, transportation & trucking, finance, importer & exporter, antiques and artifacts, franchises, tradeshow and convention services, automobile sales, and marketing/branding/promotional services; this experience provides Sarmasti PLLC a unique and well-rounded perspective in its representation of clients in corporate & business transactions involving:
- Contract negotiations
- Franchise/licensing purchases or agreements
- Confidentiality, non-disclosure agreements
- Asset sales or purchases
- Business sales or acquisitions
- Formation of limited liability companies (LLCs), corporations, partnerships, and joint ventures
- Employment agreements
- Commercial leases
- Equipment leasing
- Equipment financing
- Commercial real estate purchase or sale
- Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) licensing
- Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) subpoena responses
- Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
- Shareholder, membership, and partnership agreements
- Arbitration agreements
- Commercial lending, financing, and mortgages
- Business succession planning and agreements
- Right of First Refusal (ROFR)
- Right of First Offer (ROFO)
- Option to purchase
In addition to serving its own clients, Sarmasti PLLC also serves as local counsel to firms practicing outside New York or New Jersey. The firm is also often enlisted as conflict counsel to firms practicing in New York and New Jersey. When enlisted as local counsel, Sarmasti PLLC’s attorneys are considerate of the existing attorney-client relationship between the out-of-state firms and the clients they represent, and therefore solely focus on providing those firms local experience and knowledge to help the outside firms better serve their client’s needs.
