PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS: $250.00 plus filing fees

•         Draft Standard Partnership Agreement

•         Apply for fictitious name (d/b/a) certificate

•         File application for federal tax identification number for entity

OTHER SERVICES:

File Reservation of Corporate Name & d/b/a if needed. Arrange for basic pre-incorporation consulting. Drafting or review of business plan.

ADDITIONAL FLAT RATE SERVICES:

 

The following services or a rough draft of the following agreements, in fairly standard and basic form but incorporating your data, can be provided for the flat rates stated below:

•         Prepare a basic Founder’s Agreement to be used by the entrepreneur to preserve certain rights and options when building a company initially, or when financing. For example, this agreement might reserve an option to buy out investors “down the road” at a fixed or formula price, retain certain long term employment or consulting rights, provide for an overriding super majority or other control mechanism, etc.

          $250.00

 

•         We can act as your company’s Kentucky process agent when you organize.

          $50.00 initial charge and $50.00 for each additional year or part thereof.

 

•         Prepare Certificate of Assumed Name for fictitious name that may be used by entity in addition to legal name

          $75.00 plus filing fees (currently $29.00)

 

•         Prepare draft of standard Employment Agreement                         

          $150.00

 

•         Prepare draft of standard Independent Contractor Agreement      

          $150.00

 

•         Prepare draft of standard Non-competition/Non-Interference Agreement

          $150.00

 

•         Prepare draft of standard Non-disclosure/Confidentiality Agreement

          $150.00

 

•         Prepare draft of standard Consulting Agreement                            

          $150.00

 

•         Prepare draft of standard Web Development Agreement                

          $250.00

 

•         Prepare draft of standard Stock Restriction Agreement (a/k/a Buy-Sell)

          $250.00

 

•         Prepare draft of standard Distributorship Agreement                                

          $250.00

Additionally, please ask us for a list of our trademark/service mark services and pricing.

ALTERNATIVE FEE ARRANGEMENTS - EQUITY EXCHANGE:

We started in 2000 to make available to select businesses (typically high-tech or Web-based) an alternate fee arrangement. If this might be of interest to you, please inquire about the details. In essence, it allows us to provide some extended services to these clients in exchange for acquiring equity units in the company. The package of services typically would provide that we receive at least 1% of stock or total initial equity units in exchange for providing the following (or comparable, depending on choice of business entity) services:

●         1. Basic buy-sell agreement with prescriptive rights;

 

●         2. Update annual minutes & file annual report (client must pay fee and provide form timely);

 

●         3. Hourly rate remains at reduced rate for 1year from execution of contract.

Conditions precedent to this arrangement are that client must sign off on ethics form related to attorneys doing business with clients and equity units would have voting rights.

ESTATE PLANNING SERVICES for ENTREPRENEURS: $250.00

Entrepreneurs have their own set of estate planning issues. If the owner of a small business dies or becomes incapacitated, the business, which may be the primary asset of the entrepreneur, may suffer severely. Making rent, payroll and other payments from a hospital bed may, at the very least, be inconvenient. In the event of death or major disability, the business may be forced into bankruptcy, instead of continuing under a succession plan, or simply winding up in a fashion other than by a forced sale.

To this end, we offer a flat rate for a basic entrepreneur’s estate plan, as set forth below. Additionally, we provide more extensive estate planning services for the entrepreneur, such as those related to blended families, life insurance and other trusts, living trusts and other more complex estate planning tools.

The basic package provided for the flat fee stated below includes:

●         Initial business and estate planning interview with client (you may want to bring your CPA or financial advisor, including but not necessarily limited to your spouse.)

●         We will prepare and facilitate execution of a basic property disposition will.

●         We will prepare and facilitate execution of a basic Living Will

●         We will prepare and facilitate execution of a basic Durable Power of Attorney

●         We will provide you with a draft of an appropriate company document to give your spouse or other designee business powers in the event of your death or disability.

YOUR DUTIES

          Please also keep in mind that for the packages of services we are performing specific and limited services for your company. If for instance, we perform those specific services listed in “Package A,” we probably are not registering your business with the state revenue agency or any of several local tax authorities with whom you should immediately register and to whom you will probably have to pay a license fee or owe a tax return. We are probably also not making a registration for unemployment insurance or workers compensation, unless you have specifically entered into an agreement in writing with us to do so.

          There may be many filings, including licenses and permits which a new business must apply for in order to be in compliance with various law. We specifically are not doing this for you unless we have contracted in writing to do this for you or with you. Frankly, having us do many of these things is not very cost effective for you and this is a good opportunity to have you contact a good small business CPA to help you get your corporate books set up, develop a tickler of government reportings, such as withholding deposits, and other typical or unique nonlegal registrations, postings, filings, and reportings. We are typically taking you to the point of having a legal entity which can open its own bank account.

          Unless contracted in writing in addition to services in Package A,” for instance if you were to open a bar and restaurant, we would not be assisting you in applying for a liquor license or obtaining Board of Health approval. These are your responsibilities by default, under our basic services package. We certainly will be happy to help you on any or all of these if you desire, or to try to recommend others who can assist you on such matters. Most people cannot effectively run a business by themselves. This is your opportunity to start building your typical “team” of attorney, CPA, insurance agent, financial advisor and others with professional and practical experience with a business, such as yours. We work with other professionals and firms in most of these areas and will be happy to make a referral to a local accountant, insurance company or bank.