Practice Areas
Corporate & Securities
ScottHulse PC has long been a trusted partner for businesses seeking comprehensive legal guidance on a variety of corporate business decisions. Our attorneys serve as key legal and strategic advisors for corporate governance and business operations, commercial contracts and transactions, mergers and acquisitions, franchising, regulatory compliance, federal and state securities issues, partnerships, joint ventures, and technology contracting.
Our clients rely on our attorneys to provide insight and counsel on the following:
- The structure and function of management teams, boards of directors, and board committees
- Resolving and avoiding management and succession issues
- Structuring transactions for acquiring and disposing of companies and divisions
- The private offering of securities by issuers and investors
- Evaluating and creating strategic alliances through partnerships, joint ventures, and other business structures
- Creating, marketing, distributing, and licensing technology products and services
Select Representations:
- Represented a privately held real estate investment trust, in its organization and start-up, including counsel to offering of $30 million in units of beneficial interest.
- Represented closely held businesses in various industries and service sectors, including manufacturing, transportation and retail sales.
- Served as counsel to the U.S. subsidiary of one of the largest electronics companies in the world in the establishment of logistics operations in Texas and Mexico.
- Served as counsel to a U.S. company in the formation of a company in Mexico for the sale of oil lubricants to businesses throughout Mexico.
- Served as counsel to a U.S. company in the formation of a company in Mexico for the sale of medical equipment in Mexico.
- Served as counsel to a U.S. company in the establishment of maquiladora (manufacturing) operations in Texas and Mexico.
- Served as counsel to many U.S. companies in shelter agreements and contract manufacturing agreements to allow the U.S. company to do business in Mexico without establishing direct operations (permanent establishment) in Mexico.
- Served as counsel to a restaurant franchisor from Mexico in establishing and selling restaurants franchises throughout the U.S.
- Served as counsel to a large packaging/pallet business from Mexico in the formation of a company in and the establishment of operations in Texas.
- Served as counsel to a U.S. company in the acquisition of manufacturing plants in Mexico with financing obtained from U.S. lenders.
- Represented a privately held, regional transportation company in the acquisition of one of the largest and most diversified household goods moving companies in the State of Texas.
- Represented major Borderplex-based and midwestern-based manufacturing companies in the acquisition of other businesses representing expansion opportunities. One particular transaction, involving the acquisition of the stock of a Connecticut Subchapter S corporation, was structured as a §338 (h)(10) election under the Internal Revenue Code to allow the buyer to account for the transaction as an asset purchase rather than a stock purchase, thus giving the seller and the buyer the desired favorable tax treatment.
- Represented the largest Borderplex-based household goods moving company in connection with its restructuring into a holding company structure with all its operating subsidiaries reconstituted as disregarded entities or qualified Subchapter S subsidiaries, thus allowing the conversion to the holding company structure while preserving all tax efficiencies.
- Represented the two largest Borderplex restaurant franchisees in connection with reincorporation transactions and/or reorganizations that minimized Texas franchise tax and preserved their operational and management structure.
