Business Transactions

Chepenik Trushin LLP is a full-featured business transaction law firm located in North Miami. We assist businesses and individuals with drafting a wide array of agreements and documents ranging from simple purchase and sale agreements to highly complex merger and acquisition agreements. Partner Bart H. Chepenik heads our business transaction department in Miami and with his team of associates listens carefully to your goals, objectives, and requirements in order to craft the strongest agreement or document to accomplish your needs.

The top priority in running a business is generating a profit, and the backbone of a profitable, well-run business is the creation of contracts, agreements, and other documents that empower you to run your business without those concerns. Chepenik Trushin LLP has the knowledge and experience to listen to your needs and draft legal documents customized to the specific requirements of your business. Beyond the creation of documents, you can count on our team to represent you in negotiations of all shapes and sizes. We have negotiated numerous multi-million dollar deals and successfully created joint ventures with large businesses in Miami and abroad. When you work with Chepenik Trushin LLP, you are adding more than 60 years of combined experience to your business’s transactional needs. While no transaction can guarantee the complete avoidance of litigation, you can count on the meticulous, knowledgeable attorneys of Chepenik Trushin LLP to put your business in the best position to succeed.

Before I began to pursue estate planning, probate, and trust administration as part of my firm’s core business, I spent seven (7) years with Arthur Andersen LLP in that firm’s tax department after receiving a special master of laws degree, an LL.M., in taxation from the University of Miami. So, for over fourteen (14) years, I have focused on assisting individuals and business entities (corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies) in the formation, development, and security of their businesses.

Typically, our relationship begins with assisting you with the decision of how your business entity should be structured, usually the choice of a sole proprietorship, corporation, partnership, trust, or limited liability company.

Once you make your entity selection, the real work begins. I will not only assist in the formation of that profit or not-for-profit entity with the proper state and federal government agencies, but also, I will prepare all of the documents you need to begin doing business with your partners, employees, independent contractors, vendors, private lenders, institutional lenders, franchisees, joint venturers, and/or investment groups. The documents include:

• Shareholder Agreements, Partnership Agreements, and LLC Operating Agreements
• Buy-Sell Agreements
• Corporate Redemption Agreements
• All Corporate Governance Documents (Minutes, Resolutions, Consents)
• Employment Agreements and Independent Contractor Agreements
• Disassociation Agreements
• Asset Purchase Agreements, Stock Purchase Agreements, and Plans of Merger/Merger Agreements

From formation to dissolution, Chepenik Trushin LLP possesses the depth of experience you need to plan for and achieve success. No issue is too complex, including issues regarding business tax and succession planning, the purchase and/or sale of all or a portion of your business, mergers and acquisitions, equity or debt offerings, negotiating and drafting important business contracts, and the wind-up and dissolution of your business.