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Bostic Law Firm, PA 834 Wappoo Road Post Office Box 31863 Charleston, SC 29417-1863 843-571-2525 843-571-7050 (Fax) **** The legal team at the Bostic Law Firm, PA, is pleased to help build a vibrant and successful business community in the Charleston, South Carolina, area by providing legal counsel to entrepreneurs and new and small business owners. Contact our office to schedule a free initial consultation to discuss your business need. Business Formation Starting your company on the right foot can have a significant impact on your future success. Choosing the right corporate structure for your particular business needs and goals can limit risks and personal liabilities, and provide beneficial tax advantages. The Charleston corporate lawyers at the Bostic Law Firm are experienced business and legal advisors for many types of businesses, from start-up restaurants to entertainment enterprises, from individual tradesmen to contractors in the construction industry. We work with many real estate investors creating businesses to hold investment properties until it is an appropriate time to develop those properties. Our attorneys will review your current operations and your goals for growth, and advise on the most appropriate organizational structure, such as: * Sole proprietorship (often tradesmen or independent contractors) * Partnership or limited liability partnership * Incorporation, limited liability corporation, subchapter S corporation, joint venture corporation, professional corporation * Nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation Corporate Law A relationship with an experienced Charleston corporate law attorney is an essential component of your companyÂ’s continued success. Whether you will be expanding your business through a merger or acquisition of another business, investing in property or equipment, negotiating a contract or litigating a dispute, the business law attorneys at the Bostic Law Firm can help. Our comprehensive business and corporate law practice includes providing advice and representation on all legal aspects of your business, including: * Mergers and acquisitions * Negotiating commercial property leases * 1031 exchanges * Commercial real estate transactions * Negotiating and drafting contracts * Litigation of commercial disputes As your business lawyer, we will work to protect your interests and help you achieve your goals, so you can focus on promoting the business and the bottom line. Contact a Charleston corporate lawyer at the Bostic Law Office to discuss how we can serve you and your business.

Charleston, South Carolina 205 King Street Suite 400 Charleston, South Carolina 29401 (T) 843-577-9440 (F) 843-720-1777 ***** Columbia, South Carolina 1441 Main Street Suite 1500 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 (T) 803-771-8900 (F) 803-253-8277 ****** 201 W. McBee Avenue Fourth Floor Greenville, South Carolina 29601 (T) 864-370-2211 (F) 864-282-1177 ****** Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 2411 North Oak Street Suite 105 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 29577 (T) 843-445-9688 (F) 843-443-8147 ****** Hilton Head, South Carolina 400 Main Street Office Campus Suite 100A Hilton Head Island, South Carolina 29925-3526 (T) 843-689-6277 (F) 843-682-1577 ********* Nexsen Pruet's corporate practice covers a wide array of clients and activities. Our clients are both large and small; we serve local and start-up companies as well as major institutional businesses with multi-state and international operations. Their collective activities include banking and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, transportation, textiles, computers and other technologies, wholesale and retail sales, distribution services, construction, real estate development and management and natural resources development. Nexsen Pruet undertakes a comprehensive range of services for these clients, from routine contract review and routine incorporations to structuring and implementing acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, dissolutions, control contests, recapitalizations, and other highly complex business transactions. The firm also has extensive experience in corporate finance transactions involving both debt and equity capital markets, and in forming and representing partnerships, limited liability companies, non-profit corporations, and other forms of business and eleemosynary organizations.

200-A South Main Street Greenville, South Carolina 29601 Telephone: 864-250-9780 Fax: 864-250-9784 ** The form of entity chosen for a business greatly impacts the daily operations of the business and the income tax consequences to both the business and its owners. Attorney Scott Pfeiffer advises his business clients on the appropriate entity selection based upon their business, taxation, jurisdictional, and operational preferences—partnerships, limited liability companies, corporations or joint ventures. He also prepares and files all required documents. Once the business is formed and operating, Mr. Pfeiffer also provides general counsel and support services. Such services include contract and lease negotiation and drafting, contract review, trademarks, copyrights, corporate succession planning, reorganization, mergers and acquisitions, international investments and transactions, directors’ and officers’ liability, shareholders’ rights, and dissolution. He advises clients in an effort to avoid litigation, but they also handle any business-related litigation matter that may arise. Scott Pfeiffer is a state certified arbitrator and mediator and often uses alternative dispute resolution as a means to resolve business disputes.