Business law for entrepreneurs and small business owners
Combining business and startup law to propel your entrepreneurial dreams
At Media Law Group, we bring a creative and growth-minded approach to helping you launch your new venture or accelerate the trajectory of your current business. Our experience spanning business and startup law puts us in a unique position to act as both your legal counsel and your business advisor.
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BUSINESS LAW SERVICES
You have a great idea for a new business and are ready to get started. What’s next? At Media Law Group, we take on the heaving lifting so you can focus on bringing your idea to life.
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Media Law Group can also act as your virtual in-house counsel to address day-to-day corporate governance and other ongoing legal issues.
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Start.
Select the best business entity
Prepare and file the appropriate organizational documents
Negotiate and draft founders’ agreements
Finance.
Choose a financing vehicle
Develop business plans and pitch presentations
Negotiate and draft founders’ agreements
Protect.
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Safeguard and leverage business assets through copyrights, trademarks, trade secret protections
Draft confidentiality and invention assignment agreements
Grow.
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Develop and implement strategic business alliances, joint ventures and sale transactions
EMERGING BUSINESS SERVICES
Your business has launched and now you need some help taking the next step.
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Grow.
Help raise financing to fund business development*
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Draft and negotiate
asset purchase and/or sale agreements
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*Note MLG is not a licensed broker
Operate.
Structure, draft and negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements
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Resolve disputes without litigation
Sell.
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Draft deal term sheets
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Draft Letters of Intent (LOIs) or Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs)
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Draft Client and Service Contracts
Exit.
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Structure Dissolutions and Winding Up
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Negotiate mergers and acquisitions
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Draft and negotiate Asset Purchase Agreements
Why work with Media Law Group to start your next business
As business development specialists, MLG can help you find the deal, paper the deal and implement the deal.
We’ve been in your shoes.
The team at Media Law Group has started and run a number of businesses. This allows us to bring a real-world approach to helping your business get off the ground and flourish. It also means that we understand the practical implications of the advice we offer.
We're in it with you for the long haul.
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We offer more than a quick in and out engagement. Our goal is to fuel your long-term growth plan. This means we are part of the consequences of the work we take on together.
We take your success seriously.
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We put together a comprehensive execution plan that forces us to look at your new business strategically. We start from the position of wanting to know what the result is that you are looking for and we work back from there. With Media Law Group, there are no cookie-cutter solutions because we invest the time in understanding your business from the inside out.
We take away the fear factor​
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The bottom line is, we work to solve problems and create opportunities so you can focus on your passion. And we do it in a straight-forward, everyday language kind of way. We take the time to listen to you. As a deal-making firm, we also give you the straight talk which means we will tell you when we think you could go down a better path.
We are thankful to all the entrepreneurs we work with on Upcounsel for their kinds words.
I spoke with Lara for a startup business consultation and was very impressed with her knowledge and her friendly conversational delivery. Lara brought to light things I didn’t even consider.
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Lara has been such a great asset & resource for me. I’m incredibly thankful for her knowledge & insights.
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Share the amazing things customers are saying about your business. Double click, or click Edit Text to make it yours.
Lara is fabulous – she clearly cares about her clients and helped give me clear direction in a short amount of time.
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OTHER STARTUP SERVICES
We have teamed up with a number of organizations to offer you the end-to-end services you need to start your new business.
Financial services that take the pain out of running your business
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We work with Blue J Financial to provide affordable, efficient, and on-demand accounting, tax, and finance support that allows you to focus on running your business without being burdened by the myriad financial tasks that need to be done.
Marketing to set your business on a growth path
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Through our partnership with Sugarbird Marketing, we help you go-to-market with branding, messaging, website, social media, public relations and more.