Drummond Wehle & Ross LLP
Terrace Oaks Office Park
6987 East Fowler Avenue,
Tampa, Florida 33617
Phone: (813) 983-8000
Fax: (813) 983-8001
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Business Planning, Formation & Transactions

 

 



Our business practice provides clients with some of the most important legal services involved in forming, operating, financing, and expanding their businesses. Our business clients range from individual entrepreneurs to publicly traded companies, with everything in between. We serve as general counsel for many of our business clients, while for others we handle only specific matters. Each business client, large or small, is given personal attention and the benefit of our collective knowledge and experience.

We provide both small and large businesses a broad range of legal services, including business formation, stockholder agreements and other agreements among co-owners, assistance with borrowing and financing transactions (including securities offerings), buying and selling a business, contracts with employees and other employee relations matters, trademark registration and other steps to protect intellectual property, and franchising.
Practice areas include:
  • Business Formation and Entity Selection
  • Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships and Joint Ventures
  • General Business Representation
  • Shareholder/Partner/Owner Agreements
  • Employment, Management and Consulting Agreements
  • Employee Relations – Noncompetition/Nonsolicitation/Confidentiality Agreements
  • Vendor/Suppler/Customer Relations – Purchase and Supply Agreements
  • Franchising/Distributorships/Business Opportunities
  • Mergers and Acquisitions – Buying or Selling a Business
  • Financing of Business Entities, including Venture Capital
  • Securities Offerings – Raising Money from Investors
  • Intellectual Property Protection – Trademark Registration and Licensing
  • Technology and Software Developing and Licensing Arrangements
  • Computer System Acquisition and Maintenance/Support Agreements
  • E-Commerce
  • Internet-Based Businesses: Formation, Financing, Strategic Partnering
  • Web Hosting, Linking and Advertising Agreements

For more information or to discuss your business matter, please call Cary Ross at
(813) 774-8615, Temple H. Drummond at (813) 425-5750, or Gerard “J.J.” Wehle at (813) 425-5749.

Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts
Probate and Trust Administration
Business Planning, Formation and Transactions
Individual and Business Taxation
Risk Management and Wealth Preservation