Our BUSINESS FORMATION CONSULTATIONS provide answers to the most common questions contemplated by overseas entrepreneurs when forming a new company in the US:
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For single-owner LLCs (managed by owner) our service includes the following:
For LLCs with two or more owners (managed by owners) our service includes the following:
Venture capitalists prefer corporations because of the three defining characteristics of this entity choice: easy transferability of interests, perpetual duration and limited liability. Our service includes the following:
Venture capitalists prefer corporations because of the three defining characteristics of this entity choice: easy transferability of interests, perpetual duration and limited liability. Our service includes the following:
This entity choice is available to corporations that are formed for the purpose of creating a material positive impact on society and the environment. Benefit corporations must have a specific public benefit, which by definition includes the following examples:
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This entity choice is available to companies that will create a positive effect, including effects of an artistic, chartable, cultural, economic, educational, environmental, literary, medical, religious, scientific or technological nature.
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Not-for-profit companies may be formed either as a Charitable Corporation or a Non-charitable Corporation. Unlike business corporations, a not-for-profit corporation may not be formed for pecuniary profit or financial gain and the corporation’s assets, income or profit generally may not be distributed to or otherwise used to benefit the corporation’s members, directors or officers. Our service includes the following:
Any corporation granted an exemption by the IRS as a non-profit organization under Section 501(c) is exempt from Delaware Corporate Income Tax. Non-profit organizations include, but are not limited to:
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This entity choice is available for engineers, architects, physicians, lawyers, dentists and other professions specified by the Department of Education. Our service includes the following:
This entity choice is available for founders who are licensed or otherwise legally permitted to practice a professional service, including physicians, lawyers and other professions specified by the NY Department of Education. Our service includes the following:
This entity choice is available to companies that will provide professional services in engineering and/or architecture and/or land surveying and/or landscape architecture. Our service includes the following:
One or more professionals may form a professional service corporation (P.C.) for the purpose of rendering the professional service or services that the professionals are authorized to practice. This entity choice is specifically available for engineers, architects, accountants, physicians, lawyers, veterinarians and chiropractors in NY. Our service includes the following:
If you are starting an online business, our law firm can help you throughout the entire process.
When launching a US startup company, you can protect your business by registering US trademarks for your company name, logo and/or products. If you have a service-based company, you may wish to register a service mark.
Your trademark must be distinct. Names that are more distinct (ie, fanciful, arbitrary and suggestive names) are more likely to get approved during the trademark application process. Inherently descriptive names are only eligible for registration as a trademark after they have achieved secondary meaning (ie, the company/product/service name has come to be closely associated which a particular source).
OUR TRADEMARKING SERVICES
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