Business Organizations

For our firm’s business clients we assist in determining whether to operate as a closely held business, limited liability company, partnership, or corporation. Our attorneys help negotiate sales and purchases of businesses of all types and sizes, draft contracts, structure loans and handle complex business transactions. We aid clients in formulating business plans. We help dissolve companies and resolve outstanding contract disputes.

Pete Cline obtained significant experience in business organizations while employed as corporate counsel for Harbert Corporation of Birmingham, Alabama and Mountain Coals, Inc. of Denver, Colorado.  In his private law practice, he designed and implemented a business reorganization plan for a multi-state engineering company by creating a parent holding company with operating subsidiaries in numerous states.  Pete Cline also has developed experience in the sale and acquisition of businesses ranging in value from $250,000 to $600,000,000. Our firm has handled the acquisition of numerous engineering companies, the sale of two cable television companies and the sale of several coal mining companies.   If you need assistance with preparing your business for sale or need competent legal assistance in acquiring a business,  contact the Cline Law Firm.  We have experience that is unmatched in Southeast Kentucky, Western Virginia and East Tennessee.