Corporate Services

Helbraun Levey’s Corporate Group offers a team of lawyers with decades’ worth of experience working for the hospitality sector and beyond. From your initial corporate formation to financing, expanding, or selling your business, we can handle it all. Our creative approach combines our deep industry knowledge with our honed legal expertise to help you build a business that is both tailored to your vision and built to last.

Corporate Governance

Setting up your business the right way is crucial for its long-term success. Whether you’re a first-time entrepreneur or an industry veteran, we can help you choose the right entity for your business, and from there, help you adopt a structure that protects you while giving you the freedom to build the brand of your dreams.

We believe strongly that there’s no “one size fits all” solution to corporate governance. Every business is different. Our team is here to help you find a framework that makes sense for your vision, and solutions that are carefully tailored to the needs of you and your partners. With this goal in mind, we can help you with:

• Partnership, Shareholder, and Operating Agreements
• Joint Venture Agreements
• Founder Agreements
• Sweat Equity Agreements
• Investor Agreements
• Equity Purchase and Assignment Agreements
• And more!

These agreements are critically important as they become the “bible” of your business, outlining everything from its ownership, management, economics, expansion parameters, exit options, and more. If you’re unsure of how best to structure your business, just give us a call. We’ll invest time in learning about your business and its goals, and from there, we’ll present you with custom solutions informed by decades of industry experience.

Private Financings

Almost every small and mid-sized business will need to raise outside capital at some point. Whether you hope to secure funding through private investments, loans, or a combination of both, we can guide you through the entire fundraising process.

We’ve helped countless small businesses raise the money necessary to successfully launch their concept. Whether it’s your first round of financing or your fifth, we can help you negotiate and execute a deal that secures the funding you need while preserving your control and protecting your vision. Our team prides itself on its creativity, quality, and responsiveness when it comes to raising capital. We aim to give our clients true ownership and control over what can otherwise be a daunting and tedious process.

Rollups, Consolidations, and Restructurings

These days, the word on the tip of everyone’s tongue is “scalability.” Let’s face it – across the hospitality industry, costs are up and profit margins are thinning. A diversified portfolio of hospitality operations is becoming more and more essential to survival in the current landscape. If you haven’t heard this question already, you’re likely to hear it soon: “how will you scale your business?”

For over a decade, we’ve helped hospitality owners answer this very question by consolidating and streamlining their operations. With the right legal structure, hospitality groups can take advantage of economies of scale. This often means better leverage when dealing with your lenders, investors, vendors, and landlords. It can mean bulk discounts, streamlined operations, and potential tax advantages. And when it comes to pitching investors, having the right legal structure can be the difference between a “no thanks” and a “where do I sign?”

Whether this process involves setting up a parent company, a management company, an intellectual property holding company, a payroll company, or a combination of all four, we can craft a framework for your business that facilitates seamless growth and scalability. The sooner you invest in the right legal structure, the sooner these advantages can be yours.