Panakos Law, APC is a business-focused San Diego law firm that provides legal advice and dispute resolution services to emerging small businesses, privately-held corporations, select publicly-traded companies and their shareholders and investors.
Our small firm provides comprehensive legal services to business owners, entrepreneurs, C-suite decision makers and in-house Corporate Counsel across a wide-range of both transactional and complex dispute matters. We are an interdisciplinary commercial-law practice with an international reach. From entity formation to mergers and acquisitions and all types of business disputes including complex and multi-party litigation matters, our counsel is comprehensive yet specialized.
SMALL FIRM RELATIONSHIPS | LARGE FIRM RESULTS
The business lawyers at Panakos Law take a unique approach to providing the legal support our clients need with a comprehensive strategy that produces solutions, not endless billable hours. Our experienced team works with business owners and entrepreneurs throughout the entire business lifecycle, from entity formation through growth and into an exit or transition.
From private securities offerings to intellectual property and aggressive dispute resolution, our small team of business lawyers and support staff work collaboratively to protect, enforce and defend our clients’ personal and business interests.
Value-Based Billing
Although the billable hour is still used by most attorneys (including us for matters that are dynamic, have hard-to-define deliverables, or are dispute-related), we believe in transparent, clear pricing for those matters where we can define the needed deliverable or legal service requested. Depending on your unique matter and overall goals, as well as your budget, we ensure our billing methods transparent upfront, so we can effectively and efficiently resolve the dispute, complete a business transaction, or deliver on a fixed-fee project.
Learn more about our client focus below and request a free, no obligation initial consultation online to learn more about how Panakos Law, APC can partner with you.
Start
Start | Form or Buy a Business
Whether you are taking a great idea to market, buying an existing business, or looking to franchise, Panakos Law will work with you as your trusted partner in order to maximize your opportunities for success. Every client has a unique business model, goals, and legal challenges. We focus on protecting business owners’ interests and providing the legal services needed to help them achieve their business goals.
The business attorneys at Panakos Law provide comprehensive corporate counsel to startups, aspiring entrepreneurs, and privately-held growth companies. Our “cradle-to-grave” practice approach is strategically structured to provide transparent, affordable legal services to emerging companies and their founders, shareholders, and investors.
Our transparent, value-based billing methods include valuable preliminary assessments, clearly-defined scopes of work, and flat-fee billing options for defined legal services including entity formation, certain trademark matters, and even private securities offerings.
Panakos Law’s fixed-fee entity formation is truly comprehensive and customized for each client. Use our online entity quote tool to receive an immediate initial estimate for your specific all-inclusive business formation.
Comprehensive startup counsel | Fixed-fee entity formation
LLCs
C-Corps
S-Corps
Profession Service Corporations
Non-Profits
Professional and Benefit Corporations
Domestication to CA | Foreign Entity Filing
Partnership and Corporate Structuring
Pre-Formation Counsel
Buy-Sell Agreements
Registered Agent Services
Complex Corporate Structuring
Employee Vesting Agreements
Purchase Existing Business
Business Valuation
Due Diligence
Deal Structuring
Asset & Stock Agreements
Franchising
Assess
Acquire / Purchase
Expand / Franchise
Business Valuation Services
Equity-Based Compensation Plans
Corporate Compliance Support
Beneficial Ownership Reporting
General Startup Counsel
Fund | Securities & Private Placements
We represent start-up companies, private companies in various stages, and public companies in private placements of equity or debt securities. We represent start-up companies in “friends and family” offerings, private placements with angel investors, “crowdfunding,” and venture capital financings. Our Securities Attorneys often support companies through multiple series of private placements throughout each phase of growth.
Opening the doors to outside funding also brings new challenges when it comes to corporate governance, existing business relationships, and managing core operations. The securities and private placements lawyers at Panakos Law take a holistic approach, balancing the need for capital to fuel expansion with maintaining the corporate values that made your business successful in the first place.
And we never retreat from our commitment to efficient and predictable pricing. Request a consultation with our local San Diego business attorneys today about how we can help your company grow.
Fund
Raise Private Capital | maintain Securities law Compliance
Founders Structuring
Initial Capitalization Options
Friends & Family Financing
Seed Financing
Deal Structuring
Private Securities Offerings
Employee Vesting Agreements
Convertible Debt Offerings
SEC and State “Blue Sky” Filings
General Private Securities Counsel
SAFE Securities Offerings
Crowdfunding Offerings
Rule 147 Offerings
Regulation A Offerings
Regulation D Offerings
Rule 506(b) and 506(c) Offerings
Regulation S-1 and S-3
EB-5 Offerings
Fixed-Fee Private Placements
General Public Securities Counsel
CA Securities Applications & Notices
SEC and State Securities Compliance
Grow
Grow | General Corporate Counsel
As your company expands, its corporate counsel needs will grow as well. Growth brings new compliance requirements, new employee and investor relationships, and new strategic opportunities. Panakos Law can grow with you.
Our attorneys draft, review, and enforce business contracts of all types, and can also help you to develop website terms and conditions that are compliant with federal, state, and even EU requirements. We are experts at guiding you through intellectual property issues, securing your rights in trademarks, copyrights, patents, and supporting and defending your brand’s Internet presence.
Newly complex relationships with customers, vendors, partners and employees can be a serious challenge for many small and growing businesses. Panakos Law can help with preparing and filing required state corporate reports and ensure your company’s compliance with regulatory requirements.
Business growth can bring new opportunities. The team at Panakos Law can help your company realize those opportunities, navigating through joint ventures, strategic acquisitions, and negotiations with investors and key stakeholders. Reach out today to request a free consultation on how Panakos Law can support your company’s growth.
Outsourced in-house COunsel for growing businesses
B2B and B2C Contracts
Drafting
Review
Enforcement
Intellectual Property
Trademarks
Copyrights
Patents
Internet and Domain Names
Website Terms & Conditions
Online Privacy Policies
Corporate Compliance
State Annual Reporting Support
Entity Conversions & Restatements
Employment Agreements
Buy-Sell Agreements
Strategic Acquisitions
Joint Ventures
Employee Vesting Agreements
Equity-based Compensation Plans
Strategic Business Transactions
General Corporate Counsel
Defend | Business Disputes
At Panakos Law, we believe that good lawyers help their clients defuse conflicts when they can—and vigorously defend their clients when they must. That’s why our business litigation attorneys are ready to aggressively defend your rights in arbitrations and mediations, before regulatory bodies, and in state and federal courts.
We have the capacity to take on all forms of complex business litigation. Our attorneys enforce and defend contracts and litigate shareholder and investor disputes. They can pursue allegations of fraud by business partners, by investors, or in private placements. They can protect your company from embezzlement, unfair business practices, or trade libel, and defend against unfounded and frivolous lawsuits.
We understand that litigation creates uncertainty for many businesses. That’s why we work to make the process as clear and predictable as possible. Even in litigation matters that are billed hourly, our commitment to transparency and efficiency holds true. We use digital discovery tools and processes and a lean yet efficient litigation support team to save you time and money to quickly achieve your goals.
Defend
Enforce & Defend | effective dispute resolution | Aggressive Business litigation
Contract Disputes
Breaches of Contract
Shareholder Disputes
Investor Disputes
Business Fraud
Bad Faith
Intentional Negligence
Embezzlement
Breach of Promissory Note
Unfair Business Competition
Real Property Disputes
Lease Disputes
Title or Boundary Disputes
Complex Commercial Litigation
Partnership Disputes
Breach of Transaction Terms
Omissions During Negotiations
Usurious Loans
Securities & Investment Fraud
Private Placement Fraud
Intellectual Property Disputes
Trademark Infringement
Domain Name Disputes
Fraudulent Misrepresentation
Trade Libel
Employment Disputes
Labor Board and EEOC Matters
Anti-SLAPP
Exit
Exit | Business Transitions
Even in business, all good things must come to an end. When the time has come to wind down a venture, the lawyers at Panakos Law can help you to exit smoothly and efficiently, ready to take on the next challenge.
We assist businesses with every kind of sale, divestiture, dissolution, wind-down, and transfer. Our business transition lawyers can help with bankruptcies, asset valuation, acquisitions and sales of franchises, comprehensively counsel through both asset and equity sales, and strategically negotiate family or employee buy-outs.
Our lawyers also understand that, often, business transitions are about more than money. We know that many of our clients have worked hard to build their business. As they look to exit, we work closely with them to ensure that their values are respected and their business and personal goals are met.
Even as businesses wind down, we maintain our commitment to efficiency and transparency. Our business attorneys work with owners and business leaders to make the process—and the bills—as predictable as possible. If you’re looking to transition a business venture, reach out using our online tool for a free consultation.
Strategic Business Exits and Transfers
Divestitures
Business Sales
Private Party Transfers
Dissolutions / Wind up / Termination
Strategic Business Wind Ups
Business Valuations
Business Bankruptcy
Personal Bankruptcy
Acquisitions & Sales of Franchises
Business Mergers
Acquisitions
Joint Ventures
Equity Sales
Asset Sales
Bulk Sales
Transfer of Control to Family or Employees
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