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The business law practice of the Law Offices of Vance R. Koven offers a variety of services to business owners and managers, treating every phase of a business's life cycle & operations.
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The Boston-based business law practice of the Law Offices of Vance R. Koven offers a variety of services to business owners and managers, treating every phase of a business’s life cycle and operations. We strive to provide sensitive and wise counseling, drawing on over four decades of experience with firms of all sizes.
Within this site you will find described a range of matters—by no means an exhaustive list—in which we can add value to your business. They range from business formation, organization and governance, capitalization and finance, to documenting the day-to-day transactions and special events in the life of a company, to acquiring and disposing of businesses and assets, to the protection and recognition of a firm’s intellectual property, to the planning for the eventual succession of the business owners.
Vance R. Koven has practiced business law for over forty years. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he has counseled Fortune 500 companies, startups, ongoing small businesses, and entrepreneurs buying and selling companies, in industries as varied as manufacturing, computer technology, telecommunications, publishing and oil and gas, as well as nonprofit organizations, authors, artists and musicians. He has extensive experience in international transactions and intellectual property, and is the author of widely cited articles on international investment protection and intellectual property.
Thursday, April 16, 2020
One of the hottest topics in business law to come out of our sequestered and economically chaotic pandemic times is whether parties to contracts (including among other things commercial leases) that have been made functionally useless by people’s inability to do business in the normal course can suspend or even cancel their obligations. In most situations they have their eyes on a ubiquitous bit of contractual boilerplate usually referred to as the “force majeure” clause. The concerns addressed here are far from academic: I've fielded plenty of questions from clients conc ...read more
