Rusty Stutes of Stutes & Lavergne has extensive experience in advising new business entities, emerging and growing companies, and established corporations about the business opportunities and risks they encounter every day. For further information about how their experience can serve your business needs contact Stutes & Lavergne.

Business Entity Selection.

We will help you decide on your new business entity's form based on your requirements for personal risk containment, management flexibility, and tax exposure. Our attorneys can also draft operating agreements for new LLCs, articles of incorporation and bylaws for new corporations, and advise you on all of your initial registration and filing requirements.

Business Operations.

Once you are up and running, we can help you deal with the legal details and challenges that can arise more frequently as your company grows. We can prepare the documentation for all of your contracts and agreements, whether simple or complex. We can also help you deal with problems relating to underperforming employees, tax issues, customer or vendor defaults, and management issues.

Tax and Transition Issues.

With our comprehensive understanding of Louisiana Tax Law, many municipal and parish governments have selected us to serve as their tax counsel in collection and contested claim litigation. Let our experience go to work for you as we advise you how to deal with tax problems, or better yet, how to avoid them in the first place. We can also help you successfully manage family business succession planning, buy-sell agreements, a variety of trust instruments, family limited partnerships, and planning for the complications of divorce. Many of our small business clients appreciate the opportunity to combine estate planning and business advisory functions at a single law firm.