Moore & Reese's corporate practice group represents both for profit and non-profit businesses in a broad range of transactional practice areas. Our corporate practice is designed to meet the diverse needs of business and commercial clients by serving a business in all stages of its life cycle from start-up, through growth and financing, and finally, sale or other exit strategy. Our goal is to assist our clients to succeed. We believe the best way to achieve that goal is to form long lasting partnerships with our clients and to provide a coordinated range of professional business services specifically tailored to the client's needs. We provide our clients with responsive, creative and cost effective representation. By devoting ourselves to fulfilling these objectives, we provide a solid foundation to help our clients accomplish all of their business objectives.
Our role is often that of outside general counsel to our clients, as our skills encompass most of the services a business will need during its lifetime. As part of our general business practice, we form all types of Georgia business entities. We also prepare and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts, advise on corporate governance issues, prepare shareholder agreements, and create stock option and other executive compensation plans.
Our business lawyers also possess substantial experience with the transactional events in the life of a company, including mergers, stock and asset acquisitions, business outsourcing, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, venture capital and other debt and equity financing transactions.
Our lawyers have represented domestic and foreign companies in technology, manufacturing, medical, insurance, distribution, and other industry sectors.
Moore & Reese, LLC is a full service real estate law firm which represents clients in a wide range of real estate transactions involving the acquisition, management, leasing, financing, construction, operation, and sale of commercial, industrial, residential and mixed use properties. We strive to meet the diverse needs of our clients by providing a broad spectrum of real estate legal services while at the same time placing a special emphasis on anticipating and preventing potential problems so that our clients can achieve their desired goals.
The legal services provided by Moore & Reese encompass such real estate practice areas as commercial and residential closings, construction loan closings, loan modifications and workouts, debt restructuring and mortgage default (non-judicial foreclosures). Our clients include financial institutions, developers and domestic and international investors. Our objective is to provide our clients with high quality legal services in a responsive, timely and efficient manner. We strive to form long lasting partnerships with our clients by providing each client with a seamless and coordinated range of professional real estate legal services. We apply creative and productive solutions to assist clients in accomplishing all of their real estate objectives.
Moore & Reese, LLC has extensive experience in handling all aspects of general community association law. Our firm has had the privilege of representing many condominium and homeowners associations over the years. Our skilled team of knowledgeable attorneys has a great deal of experience in assisting associations in matters regarding interpretation and enforcement of covenants and legal documents, developer turnover issues, advising boards of directors in regard to their legal rights and obligations under the association documents, revising and negotiating contracts, assisting with zoning and land use issues, collections and litigation matters.
Moore & Reese offers community associations both retainer and non-retainer options. Our retainer program offers community associations the following benefits:
• Reduced hourly rates
• Free meeting with Board of Directors
• Flat rate charges for pre-litigation collection matters
• Deferred fee payment arrangement for litigation collections matters
Please contact us to learn more about our retainer and non-retainer options and how they may best meet your community’s legal needs.
Moore & Reese has extensive experience in most facets of estate planning. We assist clients in crafting customized estate plans designed to preserve wealth, minimize tax liability and effectively dispose of assets at death. Specifically, such plans include preparation of wills, trusts, financial and health care powers of attorney, and assistance with probating and administering estates.
When disputes arise that necessitate either the defense or prosecution of matters through court action, our experienced attorneys represent our clients in all aspects of civil litigation. In addition to maintaining a general civil litigation practice, we represent our clients in disputes requiring litigation in each of the firm’s areas of expertise, including:
• real estate transactions: breach of contract actions; construction defects; title disputes; landlord-tenant issues; suits on notes; foreclosure confirmations; deficiency actions; quiet title actions; earnest money disputes
• community associations: covenant enforcement issues; collections
• corporate and business transactions: contractual disputes; corporate ownership disputes
• employment: defense of actions brought by individuals, as well as EEOC, Department of Labor and other government entities; disputes arising from restrictive covenants; litigation of non-compete agreements
• wills trusts and estates: will contests; probate proceedings; disputes arising from conservatorships and guardianships
We have an employer based employment practice which encompasses all areas of employment counseling and human resource management. This practice area includes advising business clients proactively on compliance issues under employment discrimination laws. This approach is designed to minimize or reduce the prospect of adverse agency proceedings, reduce the risk of employee lawsuits, and promote or enhance employee performance and morale within the client's workplace. Our employment practice area includes drafting personnel manuals, employment contracts, non-compete agreements, and restrictive covenants.
