Culp Elliott and Carpenter’s Corporate Governance and Business practice advises private companies, partnerships, private equity funds, investment funds, joint ventures, entrepreneurs and their respective founders, investors, and management on a full range of corporate governance and compliance matters. We represent businesses at all stages of the development cycle, ranging from start-ups to mature companies with established operations. We provide innovative, client-specific solutions to our clients’ issues, with a focus on achieving our clients’ goals in the most responsive, effective, and tax-efficient manner possible.
We provide a wide spectrum of ongoing corporate services and counsel to clients in a variety of industries, with services including:
Business Formation Services:
- Choice of entity analysis
- Formation tax planning
- Incorporation and organization of business entities
- Equity ownership, control, capitalization, and other business formation and governance materials
Corporate Governance Services:
- Corporate governance structures, including board, management, and committee structures, charters, and composition
- D&O indemnification and insurance issues
- Senior management succession planning
- Senior management compensation policies and planning
- Equity owner registries and communications
Transactional Services:
- Deal structuring, negotiation, and implementation
- Tax and business consultation and planning
- Conversions, reorganizations, and recapitalizations
- Commercial financing
- Debt and equity capital raises
- Redemptions, asset sales, equity sales, and other exit transactions