Yves-Georges Joseph, senior partner of the Law Office of Yves-Georges Joseph, has been in business and resided in the City of Orange for the past 20+ years.
The Law Law Office of Yves-Georges Joseph specializes in Estate Planning, Probate, Family Law, General Civil (Personal Injury) and Business Litigation, including Mediation and Arbitration.
Corporations & General Counsel:
The Law Offices of Yves-Georges Joseph can help you navigate the complicated legal landscape-from the type of structure to choose (we verse you in the ABCs of DB As, LLCs, LLPs, C- and S-corps) to how to bring new people on board-and how to let them go. We’ll prepare operating agreements and shareholder agreements. We can help you collect revenues and reduce not just liability-but also loss.
Business & Commercial Law:
We, at the Law Offices of Yves-Georges Joseph, provide general legal services to meet the needs of small to large businesses, as well as the people who work for those businesses. The following are examples of the types of business legal services the Law Offices of Yves-Georges Joseph provide:
- Business Formations, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, corporate resolutions and minutes, and operating agreements
- Negotiating business and real estate transactions
- Reviewing and drafting business contracts
- Reviewing and drafting real estate contracts
- Partnership agreements
- Shareholder agreements
- Buy-sell agreements
- Financing agreements
- Employment contracts; including but not limited to non-compete, non-solicitation, independent contractor agreements
- Stock and asset sales
- Commercial real estate transactions
- Lease agreements
- Business Sales and Acquisitions
- Business and Commercial litigation
- Corporate and Partnership dissolutions
Business Litigation:
Most business lawsuits include, but are not limited to disputes in the following areas:
- Breach of contract
- Fraud
- Intentional or negligent misrepresentation
- Intentional interference with contract
- Injunctive relief and writs of attachment
- Slander or libel
- Trade secret violations
- Unfair competition
- Negligence and breach of fiduciary duty
- Breach of non-competition agreements
- Breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing
- Economic duress
- Misappropriation of money
- Injuries to personal or real property
Contract Drafting, Review and Negotiation:
We, at the Law Offices of Yves-Georges Joseph, are well experienced in drafting.
- Standard Form Contracts
- Commercial Contracts
- Transactional Contracts
Estate Planning:
A plan to manage your assets while you are living, and to distribute them after your death.
- Wills
- Probate
- Estate Taxes
- Living Trust
- Revocable Living Trust
- Pre-Nuptial agreement
- Family Limited Partnership
- Estate Planning
We also draft industry specific contracts and agreements such as:
- Employment Agreements
- Confidentiality Agreements
- Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Non-Compete, Non-Solicit Agreements
- Licensing Agreements
- Partnership Agreements, Corporate By-Laws and LLC Operating Agreements
- Shareholder Agreements and LLC Membership Agreements
- Asset Purchase Agreements
- Stock Purchase Agreements