Corporate Counsel

• The role of in-house legal counsel is to understand the pressure points, strategies and objectives of the business and effectively communicate the risks and legal issues involved in any decision to management. This enables management to make informed strategic choices within an acceptable legal risk profile and possibly avoid future litigation and business issues. 

The Walton Firm represent businesses as their Corporate and Tax Counsel.

• As corporate counsel, we provide our clients with contract reviews. We review and examine our clients’ legal agreements to ensure that everything stated in the document is clear and accurate and that our client is comfortable moving forward according to the terms of the agreement. This process includes a rational analysis, clarifying of contract related facts, measure of the feasibility of the contract, and forecast of contract risks. 

Our qualified attorneys can review any contract, agreement or document you choose, including those that don’t require your signature.

• As corporate counsel, we provide our clients with contract preparation. The goal of contract drafting, and preparation is to create a legally binding document in writing that is clear, concise, and as close to the parties’ intentions as possible with the basic elements required for the agreement to be a legally enforceable contract. The parties to a contract may go through several drafts and negotiation sessions before the official contract is finalized. 

Our qualified attorneys ensure our clients documents are drafted and prepared to meet their business needs.

• As corporate counsel, we provide our clients with a thorough review of their formation and governance to ensure that the company is properly and within legal adherence. A company formation determines a company’s legal responsibility and its tax implications. It is very important to have an attorney who understands your business, tax strategies, and entity structuring. 

The expert attorneys at the Walton Firm provide our clients with the corporation

formation/governance that fit their business needs and expectation.

• As corporate counsel, we handle our clients’ merger and acquisition transactions. We are involved from start to finish whether the client is merging multiple companies or acquiring a new company. This includes all planning, research, due diligence, valuation analysis, contract creation, negotiations between parties, financing, merger or acquisition closing and implementation activities, and tax implications. 

Our expert attorneys understand the complexity of mergers and acquisitions.

• As corporate counsel, we help our client reduce their tax liabilities if needed. Through the various tax deductions, exemptions, and credits, a company can substantially reduce its tax burden legally. We provide our clients with proper legal guidance and planning, including analysisof income, expenses, and assets, capital gain planning, maximizing low-taxed assets, and business structuring to reduce income tax liabilities. We also work with our clients if the corporation is involved in an IRS/State tax dispute. 

We do it all.