Business & Corporate

Underwood provides comprehensive legal services for businesses of all sizes and numerous industries throughout Texas, including entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance, with a focus on tailored solutions that meet clients’ unique business objectives.

Underwood’s Business and Corporate practice represents clients of all sizes ranging from private business owners, to buyers and sellers of businesses, to folks raising money for their business or a new venture, to small start-up companies or large, expansive companies with established operations. 

Underwood’s attorneys have extensive experience representing clients in various industries across the state and country, including agribusiness, banking and financial services, construction, economic development, insurance, nonprofit organizations, motor vehicle dealerships, medical, dental, restaurants, and retail services.

Underwood provides comprehensive legal services to clients at every stage of the business lifecycle. From entity formation and structure to mergers and acquisition, corporate governance, financing, expansion, and disposition, Underwood’s attorneys work closely with clients to identify and address each client’s unique business needs.

Our Successes

Representing a startup cattle beef production company in raising over $150M in equity.

Representing a hotel operator in raising over $15M in equity over several hotel acquisition transactions.

Representing the purchaser of the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, consisting of over 510,000 acres.

Representing a client in the sale to a publicly traded company.

Representing many buyers and sellers in the purchase and sale of medical practices, accounting practices, insurance companies, dental practices, and other industries.

Practice Group Leader

John Atkins

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More about this Practice Area

Entity Formation, Planning, and Business Structure

Underwood’s attorneys work with clients from a project’s initiation until its completion, creating innovative structures, finding solutions that meet client objectives, and helping with projects that face challenging industry conditions.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Underwood provides strategic advice on all aspects of the sale or acquisition process, including working with clients’ financial advisors, lenders, accountants, and boards to ensure that the process is managed effectively. Underwood’s attorneys have deep knowledge of local law and business customs and a reputation for handling sophisticated transactions across a wide range of industries.

Corporate Governance

Underwood regularly advises corporate clients, boards and board committees, as well as individual officers and directors, on a wide range of corporate and governance issues, in both the for-profit and non-profit realms.

Corporate Restructuring

Underwood has extensive experience guiding businesses through various challenges faced by distressed companies, ranging from corporate governance, litigation, tax, regulatory, intellectual property, to finance.

Equity Raises

Underwood assists clients in many different industries in raising capital to expand their business or for start-up or acquisition purposes, including exempt private placement securities transactions under Texas and other state laws and Rule 506 of Regulation D.

Intellectual Property

Underwood regularly advises clients with respect to intellectual property matters, including trademark registration applications and licensing.

Franchising and Licensing

Underwood’s attorneys have extensive experience in assisting business owners with franchising their business or licensing their products or technology. We provide comprehensive guidance to both franchisors and franchisees.

Economic Development

Underwood provides assistance to both governmental bodies and private entities in leveraging the multitude of economic development programs, tools, and incentives offered under Texas law. Clients include numerous Economic Development Corporations (EDCs), and Underwood possesses substantial experience and expertise in navigating tax abatement programs.

Nonprofit Law

Underwood provides comprehensive legal services to nonprofits, foundations, charities, and social enterprises from formation to ongoing general counsel.

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