BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL LAW


Aspiring entrepreneurs and established businesses face a variety of challenges in the complex marketplace. Frequently, individuals hastily form a business without adequate planning. They set themselves up for litigation and financial failure. Likewise, many existing businesses fail to implement risk management programs, exposing their assets to liability.

The Law Offices of David S. Chia helps businesses plan against such failures, anticipating potential issues and providing proactive solutions that effectively and efficiently address those issues. When, however, a dispute requires or results in a lawsuit, we vigorously pursue the matter in court. We take a pragmatic, cost-effective approach that emphasizes the client's goals and concerns to ensure that we advance the interests of the client.

We have counseled individual entrepreneurs, partnerships, corporations, and limited liability companies. We have represented clients in a number of industries, including retail, finance, real estate, hospitality, food, and healthcare. We have even represented other attorneys, acting as counsel for other counsel. We have litigated multimillion dollar actions and negotiated multimillion dollar transactions.

Our business and commercial law practice encompasses every aspect of business operations, including:

Formation Contract Drafting and Review Litigation
Governance Financing Issues Business Fraud
Employee Relations Risk Management Contract Breach
Governmental Relations Real Estate Issues Strategic Partnerships


REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS


  • Obtained the complete dismissal of an action on behalf of an entrepreneur, who was accused of embezzling over $40 million from a healthcare organization, under investigation by the FBI, and sued by a team of leading Fortune 500 trial attorneys.

  • Obtained immediate relief at the outset of litigation on behalf of a prominent real estate investor against two real estate professionals, who were represented by preeminent celebrity counsel for the late recording artist, singer-songwriter and entertainer, Michael Jackson, for defrauding the investor into purchasing real property laden with heavy liens.

  • Enforced a limited liability company's contract rights against two businessmen represented by veteran appellate counsel and, following a two-month trial, obtained relief in favor of the limited liability company.

  • Enforced a lender's rights to collect on promissory notes against a medical facility that accused the lender of misappropriating over $10 million and, following our vigorous representation, dismissed those claims.

  • Substituted in as new counsel just one month before trial on behalf of an information technology specialist, who was accused of misappropriating $1 million from a partner and forging that partner's signature, and obtained a complete dismissal of the entire action.

  • Obtained complete dismissals of all investigations and disciplinary actions on behalf of two nursing professionals, one of whom was accused of a patient's homicide and subject to police investigation and the other of whom was accused of physically abusing a patient under her care and subject to state investigation.

  • Represented an attorney, who was secretly recorded in a private conversation, against a national collection agency and obtained a high, confidential settlement.

  • Formed, developed, and counseled a green technology corporation.

  • Formed, developed, and counseled an entertainment company.

  • Formed, developed, and counseled a national college admissions consulting company.

  • Counseled a health drink company on risk management with respect to national product distribution.