Legal Updates

Business owners are always in search of new creative ways to reduce their overhead costs and expenses while maintaining the quality of their good or service with maximum efficiency.

The decision to enter into an a non-compete agreement with an employee, generally speaking, is an easy one in Colorado – don’t do it because it is most likely unenforceable under statutory language and public policy.

To prove that an individual is engaged in an independent trade, occupation, profession, or business and is free from control and direction in the performance of the service, the individual and the person for whom services are performed may show by a preponderance of the evidence that the conditions set forth in paragraph (a) of this subsection (2) have been satisfied.

Recently, on the local public radio, there was a story about renowned English rock band Radiohead.  Moving away from the very common theme of popular artists and their financial struggles, drug addictions, legal problems, or tragic deaths, this segment discussed Radiohead and their business empire.

The recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) has broad implications regarding the federal taxation of businesses and their owners. Depending on a variety of factors, the owners of a business may achieve significant tax savings by restructuring their business.

On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed the much-anticipated Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017  (“TCJA”).  The TCJA makes many significant changes to the Internal Revenue Code including changes to the estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes. 

Lisa D'Ambrosia was recently part of a Denver Business Journal panel about selling your business. 

MB Law congratulates Kim Ritter on being elected to the LawPact Board of Directors at the recent LawPact conference held in Denver. 

Lisa D'Ambrosia was recently a speaker at a panel discussion hosted by the Denver Business Journal, focused on selling a business and the state of the market. Watch video clips from the event below. 

A business’ employees can make or break the business. And Key Employees are necessary to make the business a success.

You have been operating the company under one name – the name that you originally picked and put in the company’s Articles or other organizational documents.  But now it just isn’t as good of a name.  How hard is it to change and what do you have to do?  That depends…. of course!

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) activity for privately owned companies track the economy. In the best economic times, middle-market privately-owned companies are gobbled up for frothy multiples.