PRACTICE SUMMARY
- Chair(s) Laura D. Ruccolo & William G. Wright
- Office Locations New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Our litigation team approaches the commercial litigation arena with a business prospective and often provides practical solutions to complex business problems. Our goal is to assist our clients with solid problem solving advice, simplifying the decision making process in an increasingly complicated business market. By doing so, we help make our clients’ time more productive and help make their businesses more successful.
How We Can Help
Legal Services
Capehart Scatchard’s Commercial Practice assists our public and private sector clients in connection with a wide range of commercial needs including, among others:
- Claims for breach of contract or any other agreements
- Replevin action for recovery of collateral held by secured creditor
- Suits by creditor against debtor for fraudulent conveyance
- Claims for enforcement of non-compete agreements
- Suits under shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, etc.
- Stockholder disputes
- Partnership disputes
- Suits by corporate shareholders/directors against officers/employees of the company involve claims of fraud, defalcation, breach of fiduciary duty, duty of loyalty, etc.
- Suits by minority shareholders
- Franchising
- Consumer fraud/consumer protection litigation
- Defense of class actions lawsuits
- Real estate litigation, including claims for specific performance
- Real estate title disputes, including quiet title action
- Injunctions
- Declaratory judgments
- Collection of unpaid loans under promissory notes, guarantee or loan agreement
- Collection of unpaid account receivables
- Collection of unpaid rents under leases
- Mortgage foreclosure action
- Real estate tax sale certificate foreclosure action
- Litigation brought by employees for discrimination/wrongful termination
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Commercial Transactions
We frequently advise our business clients with approaches to organization of business, including drafting necessary internal documents (shareholder agreements, by-laws, employment contracts) and developing and drafting commercial contracts/documentation (purchase invoices, vendor contracts, service contracts, warranty, rental agreement, real estate, equipment leases and other agreements). We assist our clients with all aspects of business decision making, from organization of a board of directors, to employee hiring/termination, to collection of receivables, to terminating equipment leases or negotiating a contract.
Business Agreements
We work closely with our clients in the negotiation and drafting of a wide variety of agreements including, among others:
- Business organization agreements
- Loan documentation on behalf of the lender or borrower
- Agreement of sale involving residential or commercial real estate
- Agreement of sale involving sale of an existing business
- Agreement of sale involving a sale business assets only
- Residential or commercial real estate leases
- Architect agreement for design and construction of new building
- Equipment leases
- Employment contracts
- Non-compete agreements
- Confidentiality agreements
- Vendor agreements
- Licensing agreements
- Franchise agreements