Practice Areas
The practice of starting, operating, growing, and closing business entities is fraught with complex legal issues that threaten to upend operations without proper advice and guidance. Hamilton Law has extensive experience with corporate, business, and real estate law in the St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay areas. Our firm provides wide-ranging legal services to entities of all sizes, types, and industries. Learn more about Hamilton Law’s areas of speciality
Business Law
Hamilton Law provides businesses with the comprehensive representation they need to achieve their goals. Our lawyers handle a broad range of business cases such as acquisitions, mergers, or tax planning.
We work with clients across a wide range of industries including agriculture, automobile sales, banking, food and beverage products, lumber, farming, insurance, manufactures, medical services, real estate, research and development, retailers, and much more.
We represent businesses in a wide range of areas:
- Bank acquisitions, regulation, and operations
- Business ownership or asset sales
- Business transactions
- Capital raising efforts: common stock, limited partnerships, and debentures
- Contract enforcement
- Business succession: retirement and estate planning
- Creation of Family Limited Partnerships for business and estate
- Development of employee benefit and compensation plans
- Contract negotiation and preparation
- International lending
- Licensing and distribution agreements
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Regulatory filings for business entities
Commercial Lending
Hamilton Law represents borrowers, institutional lenders, and individual lenders with the analysis, development, and structuring of loan documentation. All types of loans are included in our representation. For lenders, we evaluate loan terms, security documents, and loan structure in accordance with the borrower's needs.
We are well-versed with state and federal requirements for chartered financial institutions. To ensure compliance, we review and assist with the creation of regulatory disclosure forms and financial forms, in addition to reviewing the institutions' current procedures. Our expertise is provided on all issues relating to financing, including documentary stamps and title insurance. We have experience handling complex and time-critical disputes for a variety of financial institutions such as commercial banks, commercial developers, corporate borrowers, credit unions, mortgage companies, savings and loan associations, and savings banks.
Our work consists of analyzing, developing, and structuring loan documents for institutions and individuals. Services include:
- Acquisition and development.
- Analyze loan documentation.
- Assist in negotiation of loan terms with lenders and their counsel
- Construction, refinance, lines of credit
- Consumer financing.
- Letters of credit
- Loan modifications
- Loan term structural assistance and review
- Secured transactions financing.
- Small Business Administration loans
Commercial Litigation
Hamilton Law handles matters in state and federal courts, arbitration, and administrative proceedings. Our attorneys are experienced with banking and complex commercial, construction, probate, and real estate litigation. During any stage of the proceedings, alternative dispute resolution options such as mediation and arbitration are fully utilized. Our attorneys try cases in all state and federal courts.
We provide diligent and effective representation in all our cases for clients who are individuals, small business proprietors, and large business organizations. We represent both individuals and businesses supporting them with:
- Banking litigation
- Bankruptcy matters (creditor only)
- Business organization dispute
- Commercial litigation
- Construction disputes
- Contract enforcement
- Creditor claims and mortgage foreclosure
- Income and property tax appeals
- Mediation
- Our attorneys have acted as impartial mediators in a variety of disputes
- Real estate disputes
- Securities litigation and arbitration
- Title insurance claims and defense.
- Trade secret and non-compete agreement disputes
- Trust litigation and will contests
Corporate Law
Whether your goal is to assess, dissolve, launch, purchase, or restructure your business, Hamilton Law can help. If you have a partnership, corporation or LLC, we will help you select a form of business entity that will reduce your tax burden and protect you and other principals in the business from liability.
Our corporate law group can help you form, maintain, grow or dissolve your business by providing the following services:
- Agreements governing stockholder relationships, stock options, and voting trusts
- Annual maintenance of books, minutes, meetings, and reports
- Bylaw preparation, operating agreements, and documentation
- Corporate formation, restructuring, and governance
- Dissolution, termination, reorganization, and merger of business entities
- Formation and governance of limited and general partnerships, professional associations, limited liability companies, and joint ventures
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Shareholder agreements and disputes
- Business entity structure and relationships to other businesses
Real Estate Law
When it comes to real estate Hamilton Law specializes in title examination, preparation of real estate documents, title insurance review, and issuance and preparation of commercial loan documents secured by real estate.
The legal environment is rapidly changing; having a legal team by your side is imperative when you have a business. Our real estate lawyers are knowledgeable on advising in estate and probate matters, representing developers and syndicates, and participating in disputes, mortgages, construction, condemnation litigation.
We represent all types of real estate participants with activities such as:
- Acquisition and documentation of real estate financing
- Leasing agreements
- Commercial and residential rental agreements, purchase options
- Condominium development and regulatory filings
- Counseling condominium and community associations
- Disputes between landlord and tenant
- Real estate investment, limited partnerships, and joint ventures
- Residential and commercial sales and purchases
- Tax-free exchanges of real estate
- Title insurance and resolution of title problems
- Zoning, land regulation, variances, and development