Business & Transactions

The legal side of running a business is a series of decisions about how to structure a relationship and document it before it goes wrong, the entity you form, the partner you take on, the contract you sign, the company you buy or sell. Hank has spent more than 29 years as transactional counsel to Texas business owners, handling the formation, agreements, and deals that determine who owns what, who decides what, and who bears the risk when a deal goes wrong.

Every business starts with the entity. Hank counsels you on whether an LLC, a corporation, or a limited partnership fits how you will own, govern, fund, and eventually exit the business, coordinates the choice with your tax advisors, and drafts the company agreement, bylaws, or partnership agreement that controls how decisions get made and what happens when an owner leaves. Those governing documents, not the certificate filed with the state, determine how equity vests, how votes work, and how a departing founder is bought out.

After formation come the contracts and the deals built on them. Hank drafts and negotiates the commercial agreements, licenses, and SaaS and development terms your business depends on, structures the purchase or sale of a company through asset and equity deals, due diligence, and the representations that allocate risk, and handles the commercial leases and real estate behind the operation. For a company that needs legal judgment week to week but not a lawyer on salary, he serves as outside general counsel, the same role at a fraction of the cost of an in-house hire.

Hank has organized companies for first-time founders, papered financings and acquisitions for established businesses, and served as the standing counsel a growing company calls before it signs. Every engagement works toward the same result, a business you can operate, fund, and sell on terms you understand and can enforce.