Defending Your Business Interests and Winning Your Business Battles, One Case at a Time.
Our litigation team approaches the commercial litigation arena with a business perspective and 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 world. 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:
- Automotive Litigation and Dispute Resolution
- Consumer Protection Defense
- Bankruptcy Litigation (representation of lenders, lessors, lessees, and creditors in bankruptcy matters)
- Construction Litigation
- Environmental Litigation
- Appellate Litigation
- Noncompete, unfair competition, and trade secrets litigation
- 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
- Prosecution of mortgage foreclosure actions
- Prosecution of real estate tax sale certificate foreclosure action
- Defense of 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. As a long-standing member of the Builders League of South Jersey, we assist the membership base with real estate, land use, banking, and commercial transactions.
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
