CORPORATE LAW

Corporate Governance: Building Integrity and Strategic Oversight for Your Business

Effective corporate governance is the cornerstone of a sustainable, resilient, and ethical business. Beyond mere compliance, strong governance frameworks foster transparency, accountability, and strategic decision-making that drives long-term value for shareholders, stakeholders, and the community. In today’s complex regulatory and business environment, boards of directors and executive teams face increasing scrutiny and evolving demands.

At The McCullough Group, we provide comprehensive and practical legal counsel on corporate governance matters to businesses of all sizes throughout Utah. We partner with boards, executives, and in-house counsel to develop, implement, and maintain governance structures that not only meet legal requirements but also align with your strategic objectives and promote organizational integrity.

Entity Formation, Transformation and Governance

From the day you first open for business to the day your business is listed on a major stock exchange, operating as an entity is essential to protect your personal assets. We can help you structure corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, and we can help you understand the related corporate tax and estate planning issues. We also enable you to anticipate and resolve issues with your partners, employees and customers and plan for those issues in bylaws, shareholder agreements, operating agreements, employment contracts and marketing, distribution and service agreements.

Contract Documentation

Whether it is a license, joint venture, distributorship, sale of goods or other complex transaction, you know the business terms you want. We can achieve those terms in your negotiations, identify the likely “what if” scenarios for your consideration, document the agreed upon terms to avoid future disputes and help you avoid the contractual minefields and traps proposed by the other side.

Financing

The advice of expert legal counsel is essential in structuring and procuring financing for your business. We can advise both borrowers and lenders in public and private debt transactions, as well as equity and venture capital transactions. We also assist underwriters, developers, lenders, operators and service recipients in a wide variety of project finance transactions.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Buying, selling or merging a company is a complex task that merits a team of experts to work on your behalf. Let us use our broad experience to help you realize your goals through the structuring of asset sales or purchases, stock sales or purchases, recapitalizations, mergers and spin-offs.

Securities

Securities issues are complex and can be a significant hurdle to you as an entrepreneur. We can guide you through the layers of state and federal regulations that apply to the offering of securities. We represent issuers in public and private securities offerings and financing involving common stock, preferred stock, limited partnership interests, limited liability company interests, bonds and debentures.

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