Need A Legal Dream Team? Our Chicago Business and Corporate Attorneys Will Help You Take Your Business To The Next Level!
Whether you are just starting out, growing your business and looking for investors, or need help developing an exit strategy to sell your business, we’ve got you covered!
Meyer Law’s expertise extends to several areas, including business contracts, corporate law, trademark and intellectual property law, employment law, business fundraising, privacy and data protection, and entertainment law.
We are different from other law firms! Not only are we highly-skilled, award-winning Chicago business and corporate attorneys, we are successful entrepreneurs too! We know what you need to take your business to the next level, and we know how to protect everything you’ve worked so hard for!
What else sets us apart from other law firms? The way we run our business! We are available to our clients when they need us, because we know that sometimes things just can’t wait. Honesty and integrity are our hallmarks, and we are always clear about what you need and when you need it. We pride ourselves on our transparent fee schedule and billing practices, and we won’t nickel-and-dime you! In short, when you hire Meyer Law, you will love your lawyer!
We are proud to serve companies of all types and sizes in Chicago. This extraordinary city is where innovation thrives, and is home to both long-standing business success stories and pioneering startups. With a large technology community, and startup incubators and accelerators such as 1871 and Techstars, Chicago is the perfect place to start a business, and our business and corporate lawyers can help every step of the way!
Request a complimentary roadmap or schedule a consultation today, and see why our clients refer to us as their legal dream team! We look forward to meeting you!
Legal Services for Startups in Chicago
From deciding which entity to choose to drafting a customer contract or hiring a developer to create your website, there are a lot of things to do when starting and launching a business. Making sure you’re protected from a legal standpoint to avoid unnecessary mistakes is absolutely critical to your success. Here are some of the services and fixed fee packages we offer for startups and entrepreneurs in Chicago:
- Contracts: Whether you need a beta agreement to have users test your new app or need a customer agreement for your SaaS product, we can counsel you on the best structure and tailor a contract specific to your situation and provide counsel on best practices.
- Intellectual Property: Prepare and file trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, copyrights, assignment agreements, royalty agreements, cease and desist letters, and more.
- Entity Structure: We’ll explain entity options, such as corporations and LLCs, pros and cons, and related requirements, and we can provide guidance around equity and stock grants and best practices.
- Fundraising: If you’re thinking about raising money for your startup, we can provide guidance on investment structures, perform due diligence, and provide best practices when looking for investment.
- Data Security and Privacy: Our team can provide guidance on the ever-changing privacy laws, and assist with compliance with various privacy laws, such as the General Data Protection Regulation and California Consumer Privacy Act. We can recommend contract amendments, best practices and procedures, and more.
- Employment: We can draft offer letters, non-disclosure agreements, employment agreements, employee handbooks, policies, procedures, and more.
- Startup Packages: We offer various fixed-fee packages for startups, such as the Digital Startup Package, which includes a terms of service and privacy policy for your digital startup, or the Intellectual Property Package to help you ensure you’re doing what you should be to protect your intellectual property.
- General Counsel Packages: For startups that need support more often, we offer general counsel packages tailored specifically to your needs to assist with day-to-day legal matters, strategy, and more for a specific number of hours each month.
Launch your Chicago startup on the right legal foundation with legal counsel from Meyer Law. Schedule a consultation now to get started or request a complimentary roadmap here.
Legal Services for Emerging Growth Businesses in Chicago
As your business grows it’s important to avoid making unnecessary mistakes, and have legal counsel that you can rely on. Take a look at some of the services and fixed-fee packages we offer for emerging growth companies and small businesses in Chicago:
- Corporate Risk Assessment: We provide legal audits of corporate documents to help you determine what might be missing and strategize for future growth.
- Hiring Contract Audit: We review existing employment-related agreements such as offer letters, employment agreements, and non-disclosure agreements and make recommendations for improvement.
- Contract Audit: We review customer, supplier, referral, and reseller templates and make recommendations to improve wording, structure, and efficiencies.
- Intellectual property: We assess the intellectual property protections you have in place and recommend improvements that could help protect your company.
- Fundraising: We can help you get the legal side of your business in order before you start looking for investors, by reviewing your corporate records and contracts, assessing your intellectual property protection, and more.
- Privacy: We can help you determine what your company needs to do to comply with various data security and privacy laws.
- Emerging Growth Packages: We offer various fixed-fee packages for emerging growth companies, such as the Contract Risk Assessment Package to review your contracts for efficiencies, protections, inconsistencies, recommendations, and more, or the Fundraising Assessment Package so that you can make sure your business is in order before you get investments.
- General Counsel Packages: For scaling companies that need day-to-day support, we offer general counsel packages tailored to your needs for a specific number of hours each month to assist with negotiations, operations, strategy, and more.
Does your emerging growth company in Chicago need legal guidance? Schedule a consultation now or request a complimentary roadmap.
Legal Services for Mid-Sized Businesses in Chicago
Your legal needs may change as your company grows. Here are some of the services and fixed-fee packages we offer to mid-sized businesses in Chicago:
- Corporate Risk Assessment: We provide legal audits of corporate documents to help you determine what might be missing and strategize for future growth.
- Hiring Contract Audit: We review existing employment-related agreements such as offer letters, employment agreements, and non-disclosure agreements and make recommendations for improvement.
- Contract Audit: We review customer, supplier, referral, and reseller templates and make recommendations to improve wording, structure, and efficiencies.
- Intellectual property: We assess the intellectual property protections you have in place and recommend improvements that could help protect your company.
- Fundraising: We can help you get the legal side of your business in order before you start looking for investors by reviewing your corporate records and contracts, assessing your intellectual property protection, and more.
- Privacy: We can help you determine what your company needs to do to comply with various data security and privacy laws.
- Fixed Fee Packages: We offer various fixed-fee packages for emerging growth companies and mid-sized companies, such as the Contract Risk Assessment Package to review your contracts for efficiencies, protections, inconsistencies, recommendations, and more, or the Fundraising Assessment Package so that you can make sure your business is in order before you get investments.
- General Counsel Packages: For scaling companies that need day-to-day support, we offer general counsel packages tailored to your needs for a specific number of hours each month to assist with negotiations, operations, strategy, and more.
- Playbooks: Make sure the business and legal are aligned with playbooks and establish a standard response and language to regularly negotiated provisions.
In-House Counsel Packages: For mid-sized companies that have a small legal team, we can assist on-demand with contract negotiations, due diligence, employment matters, privacy and data protection compliance, and more, to help move the business forward faster and more efficiently. We can provide ongoing help, or assist on a project-by-project basis, to meet your specific needs.
Ensure your fast-growing, mid-sized business is on a firm legal foundation with help from the team at Meyer Law. Schedule a consultation now!
Legal Services for Large Corporations in Chicago
Our years of experience working with large corporations make us the ideal partner for in-house legal teams at large corporations in Chicago. We’ll help move your business forward with these services:
- Contracts: We negotiate commercial contracts, vendor agreements, customer agreements, service contracts, and much more. We have negotiated contracts on behalf of and against some of the largest companies in the world, such as IBM, Google, Reliance Globalcom, Pivotal, HP, Comcast, and many others.
- Mergers, Acquisitions, and Due Diligence: We can help perform due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, advise on risks, and draft related transaction documents.
- Playbooks: We can develop a playbook to ensure the business and legal are aligned, and draft standard responses and language to provisions that are regularly negotiated.
- Strategy Services: We can audit your existing processes to ensure your legal department is as efficient as possible.
The experienced, responsive and tech-savvy lawyers at Meyer Law can help support in-house legal teams at Fortune 500s and large corporations. Schedule a consultation to see how we can help your team today!
Chicago, IL
- 330 North Wabash Ave 23rd Floor Chicago, IL 60611
- 312.957.6997
- 312.957.6890
- Info@MeetMeyerLaw.com
Schedule a consultation with your legal dream team today!
We have helped thousands of companies across the United States, with corporate, contract, employment, intellectual property, fundraising, investment, privacy and data protection matters.
We would love to learn more about your business and see how we can help! We can discuss your specific needs, answer any questions that you have, and provide a tailored roadmap so that you can plan and budget accordingly.
What are you waiting for? Schedule a consultation with the legal dream team at Meyer Law today! We look forward to hearing from you!
