Corporate and Business Operations

Our strategic approach to working with veterinary practices supports all phases of their growth and helps define and meet their business objectives:

• Identify financial incentives and structure financing and bond transactions
• Negotiate purchase, sale and lease agreements
• Counsel on construction issues and agreements
• Counsel on insurance coverage
• Negotiate partnership formations
• Advise on mergers and acquisitions
• Advise on financial planning and asset analysis
• Resolve investor issues
• Advise on expansion and moving plans
• Counsel on retirement and succession planning, including estate planning and estate and trust administration
• Monitor ongoing compliance with state and federal regulations, including ongoing updates to ensure continued compliance
• Provide federal and state tax structuring advice related to veterinary practice transactions nationwide

Environmental Matters

Our law firm has decades of experience counseling on evolving local, state and federal environmental statutes, regulatory compliance and permitting processes needed to successfully complete projects. Harris Beach attorneys counsel on:

• The State Environmental Quality Review Act and land use issues
• The appropriate disposal of medical-related chemicals
• Zoning and development approval issues, including coordinating with municipal authorities

Intellectual Property

Harris Beach attorneys are at the forefront of Intellectual Property counseling and new issues, having chaired and spoken at national conferences and served on national committees. Our law firm advises on:

• Trademark registration and enforcement
• Copyright registration and enforcement
• Trademarks and copyright licensing
• Intellectual Property provisions of merger and sale agreements; drafting and reviewing
• Theft of intellectual property, proprietary and/or confidential information
• Intracompany investigations and management of electronically-stored information

Labor and Employment

Our law firm has one of New York’s largest and most active labor practices. We have extensive experience representing management in labor and employment disputes, and advising owners and practice managers to prevent employment claims. Our services include:

• Doctor and staff employment contracts
• Partnership issues and business divorce
• Development of non-compete, non-solicitation, confidentiality, nondisclosure and other employment-related agreements
• Affordable Care Act compliance
• Employee benefits matters
• Union avoidance, collective bargaining and arbitrations
• Immigration law counseling
• Wellness visits to assess employee management systems and recommend improvements, including hiring and firing, employee discipline, workplace safety, policies and training
• Unemployment, workplace safety, wage-and-hour claims
• Discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims
• Employee and manager training seminars
• Employee leave, disability and reasonable accommodation matters
• Employee manual and employment policy drafting and revisions
• Complaints dealing with employee theft or other criminal conduct
• Internal investigations

Litigation

Harris Beach attorneys have extensive experience litigating all types of business disputes including:

• Actions to enforce employment, buy-sell, nonsolicitation and other contracts
• Veterinary malpractice
• Licensing investigations
• Improper business transactions
• Debt collection
• Environmental matters
• Tax assessment issues
• Disputes involving discrimination, harassment and retaliation allegations