Strategic Advice for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses & Entrepreneurs
Providing cost effective representation to fit the needs of small businesses, startups and individuals seeking high quality representation at competitive rates.
Rodriguez & Rodriguez Law Firm P.C. provides sophisticated legal advise and timely business counsel to small to medium-size companies, startups and individuals in the San Mateo - Alameda - San Diego - areas and beyond.
Our attorneys are graduates of the nation's top-ranked law schools and have practiced law at some of the largest firms in the country. Our goal is to provide the high quality legal advise and timely response available at "big firms" at a cost that rivals solo-attorney practices.
We pride ourselves on our responsiveness to time-sensitive issues, we will return client emails and phone calls within a few business hours or by the next day. When appropriate, to meet deadlines or for time-sensitive filings, we are available after-hours or during weekends.
The structure of our fees is flexible and includes flat-fee and hourly fee arrangements depending on the nature and extent of the project and our client's needs.
Our Services
Our focused offering of legal services revolve around our core business law practice. We provide a full range of business law counseling & dispute resolution services, as well as intellectual property counseling to better serve our technology startup and foreign business clients.
- Selection of appropriate business entity (Corporation, LLC, Sole Proprietorship)
- Selection of appropriate formation State (California, Delaware, Nevada etc.)
- Nationwide formation of S corporations, C corporations and close corporations
- Nationwide formation of LLC's
- Formation of limited liability partnerships for attorneys and accountants
- Formation of professional corporations for accountants, doctors, dentists, attorneys and other licensed professionals
- Formation of LLC's for real estate investments
- Agent for service of process services
- Drafting and negotiation of buy-sell, shareholder, director and officer indemnification agreements
- Drafting and negotiation of stock option plans for startup companies
- Drafting and negotiation of employee confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements for startup companies
Business Transactions & Contract Law
- Drafting, review and negotiation of commercial contracts
- Drafting, review and negotiation of distributor and supplier agreements
- Drafting, review and negotiation of real estate leasing contracts
- Drafting, review and negotiation of technology license agreements
- Drafting and review of reusable contract templates
- Sale of businesses including asset and stock sale transactions
- Business mergers, corporate acquisitions and business combinations
- Issuance, purchase and sale of corporate stock or LLC interests
- Purchase, sale and lease of business assets
- LLC interest holder, shareholder, corporate officer and board of director transactions
- Structuring and negotiating real estate transactions
Business Investment Transactions
- Counseling regarding securities laws and regulations for companies seeking investments
- Counseling regarding securities laws and regulations for prospective investors
- Selection of appropriate registration exemption for investment transactions
- 25102(f) & 25102(o) filings in California
- Drafting and negotiation of investor loan agreements
- Drafting and negotiation of convertible note and stock option agreements for investment transactions
- Counseling regarding VC and angel investor funding strategies for technology startups
- Structuring, negotiating and closing of financing transactions for startup clients
Trademark Registration & Counseling
- Federal and state trademark registration & filing
- Counseling on trademark protection strategies for new and existing businesses
- Counseling on federal and state trademark registration
- Trademark selection guidance
- Analysis on whether a trademark is generic, descriptive, suggestive arbitrary or fanciful
- Counseling on "common law" and "unfair competition" trademark protection strategies
- Trademark infringement analysis
- Drafting of trademark cease and desist correspondence and drafting responses to such letters
- Drafting and negotiation of trademark licenses, and co-branding agreements
- Local and national trademark searches
Patent Law
- Patent strategy counseling for technology businesses and hi-tech startups
- Patent infringement analysis and pre-litigation counseling
- Counseling on strategic responses to "cease and desist" patent infringement letters
- Drafting of cease and desist infringement correspondence
- Drafting of patent-based licenses and co-development agreements
- Drafting and negotiation of convertible note and stock option agreements for investment transactions
- Counseling regarding VC and angel investor funding strategies for technology startups
- Structuring, negotiating and closing of financing transactions for startup clients
