Cokinos | Young telecommunications attorneys have many years of experience in the industry relative to portfolio acquisitions, the acquisition, ownership, operation and leasing of shared wireless communications sites, and the complex business transactions utilized by telecommunications businesses to thrive in this evolving industry.
When You Have A Transformative Transaction, We Are Ready
Cokinos | Young understands that merger and acquisition transactions are often major events for our clients and their businesses. We bring the knowledge and attention to detail that our clients deserve. Our attorneys offer both individual and sophisticated business clients the required horsepower for incremental add-on purchases and multi-million-dollar transformative transactions, while focusing on the specific needs of individual clients.
We Have The Expertise
Cokinos | Young attorneys guide clients of all sizes through the merger, acquisition, and divestiture process, bringing creativity and focus to every matter. Our attorneys’ experience spans from representing global companies engaged in multi-million dollar transactions to counseling small or mid-size businesses seeking to expand their market presence. Our attorneys assist clients in all phases of:
Asset and equity acquisitions and sales
Venture financing and agreements
Reorganizations and restructurings
Complex funding arrangements, including leveraged transactions and mezzanine financing
We have the knowledge to assist our clients with virtually any type of acquisition or disposition transaction and have vast experience in structuring, documenting and negotiating deals. But we are not just deal lawyers. We also work closely with our clients to provide pragmatic solutions to legal problems as they arise.
If You Have People Working For You, Then You Have Employment Law Considerations
Whether your company is an international conglomerate or a “mom & pop” shop, if you have people working for you, then you face employment law considerations. Cokinos | Young understands the unique challenges stemming from the multitude of state and federal employment laws, and its practice is aimed at answering those questions. Attorneys practicing employment law at Cokinos | Young provide comprehensive and aggressive representation defending employers in employment litigation and administrative actions. Our Labor and Employment Group’s attorneys advise employers from a variety of industries, including large-scale construction, industrial, manufacturing, and service providers. Cokinos | Young’s offers full-service labor and employment law advice designed to solve current problems and prevent future ones from arising.
Protecting Employer Interests
We represent clients in both state and federal court lawsuits, and also protect employer interests during the often-invasive administrative proceedings conducted by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division, U.S. Department of Labor, Texas Commission on Human Rights, and Texas Workforce Commission. Our attorneys have consulted for national and local groups on current trends and strategies in employment law, including the Associated General Contractors, Association of Builders and Contractors, the Houston Bar Association, and the Greater Heights Chamber of Commerce. Cokinos | Young attorneys defend clients from:
Title VII harassment, discrimination and retaliation claims;
Claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act;
Benefits disputes, including under the Family and Medical Leave Act and ERISA questions; and
State companion statutes to federal laws.
Much More Than Litigation Assistance
As an employment law firm, Cokinos | Young provides more than just litigation assistance. Our lawyers often help clients both pre- and post-judgment to enact proper employment practices, limit future liability exposure, and encourage a productive workforce. Cokinos | Young’s Labor and Employment attorneys provide valuable business counsel with employment-related ties. These services include, but are not limited to:
Drafting and revising employment manuals and company policies
Reviewing hiring, termination, and employment-related decision practices
Advising clients on fast-changing employment laws and their enforcing rules or regulations
Speaking with a client’s management to aid in implementation of good employment practices
Non-competition agreements
Executive compensation packages
Confidentiality documents and protections
Intellectual property security agreements and disputes
A successful business is often a bull’s-eye for litigious competitors, plaintiffs or even employees. When a business is named as a defendant in a lawsuit, it may look to its insurance company for defense and protection. Unfortunately, insurers may contest coverage, often making litigation inevitable. Cokinos | Young’s insurance/risk management practice group brings years of experience in complex insurance litigation to the table to interpret and enforce the terms of the policy in favor of coverage for the business insured. At the same time, too many businesses discover that watching the bottom line often compromises planning for the risk of claims or lawsuits. Cokinos | Young’s lawyers bring these risks into focus for our clients. We advise whether a contemplated course of action can result in increased exposures and how those exposures can be minimized through risk management, spread through insurance or transferred by contract. By providing these front-end services, Cokinos | Young maximizing protection for its clients against risks encountered in the course of doing business.
Insurance And Risk Management Legal Services We Provide:
Coverage Litigation. We handle disputes over the duty to defend, indemnify, settle and appeal lawsuits and claims against our clients
Other Parties Insurance. We analyze the claim to determine if there are other sources of insurance coverage, indemnity or defense in addition to, or even instead of, our client’s own coverage.
Defense Advice and Monitoring. Many policies call for the reimbursement of the insured’s reasonable attorney’s fees incurred by the insured’s own attorney in defending the claim. Our lawyers assist in getting those fees paid.
Risk Management Advice. Our lawyers review the client’s insurance program and coverages as to appropriate coverages for their peculiar exposures. The client’s business agreements are reviewed, revised or originally drafted to maximize contractual risk transfer.
Liability Insurance. Our lawyers advise on commercial general liability, directors and officers, professional liability, errors and omissions, pollution legal liability and virtually any other of the wide variety of insurance products which are purchased by sophisticated business insureds.
Property Insurance. We counsel, advise and represent clients as to claims involving complex commercial property exposures involving builders risk, business interrogation, extra expense, commercial crime and subrogation issues.
Fidelity and Surety. We represent sureties, principals and obligees in connection with performance, payment, bid, fidelity and the myriad of other types of bonds associated with sophisticated businesses.
Kinds of Disputes. The claims we handle include the following types of claims:
Cokinos | Young believes prudent decisions during corporate formation prevent extensive disputes later. We counsel the majority of our clients beyond any initial transaction or dispute, and address current matters with an awareness of the client’s future growth and expansion plans, or sale to investors. Whether for Texas-based businesses or those with a national reach, our lawyers have an experienced yet cost effective approach to formation, governance and reorganization questions.
Meeting All of Your Corporate Needs
With an emphasis on understanding the individual entrepreneur or company’s needs, while providing comprehensive counsel, our services include:
Forming business entities, including assisting clients in the crucial tasks of selecting the proper form and management provisions
Advising on, negotiating, and drafting documents for corporate internal operations, financing, and external transactions
Resolving governance disputes for all types of business entities
Advising on and assisting in business divorces
Analyzing existing corporate structures and implementing corporate reorganizations to maximize value and efficiency
Implementing internal, external and divisional mergers
Drafting and negotiating buy-sell agreements
Let Us Make Sure Your Bases Are Covered
It is easy to overlook good corporate practices while developing, maintaining or expanding your business. Starting with formation and through every season of the business cycle, Cokinos | Young stands ready to partner with you to align your corporate structure, contracts, and other legal needs with your business goals.
Cokinos | Young’s team of real estate lawyers combines creative legal approaches, attention to detail, and thorough understanding of our client’s goals to provide focused legal counsel for clients. Our attorneys offer both individual and corporate clients experience in multi-million-dollar acquisitions, dispositions, real estate development, leasing, and financing, while focusing on the specific needs of each client. The result is a group of attorneys capable of handling a wide breadth of transactions for all types of clients.
Our Commercial Real Estate Lawyers Know All The Angles
Our lawyers represent both buyers and sellers, lessors and lessees, individuals and companies, in their real estate and development transactions. Whether it’s conducting large-scale land acquisitions for commercial buildings, negotiating an industrial lease on behalf of a tenant or landlord, navigating financing issues for both commercial owners and developers, or overseeing a multi-property closing spanning multiple states, we have you covered.
Our real estate law practice includes:
Leading negotiations and successfully completing transactions
Drafting transaction and financing documents
Advising on title issues
Drafting and reviewing development documents, including design and construction contracts
Consulting on proposed deals
Advising on existing real estate relationships regarding available rights and remedies
Drafting and negotiating commercial leases
Compliance with governmental or private land use regulations
Management of liability risks for real estate development issues
Our clients include some of the largest construction companies and developers in the country. We pride ourselves on knowledge of the collateral legal issues raised by increasingly complex real estate transactions, and draw on the firm’s other practice areas to enhance the services provided to our clients.
Local, Statewide And National Legal Expertise
Cokinos | Young’s real estate practitioners includes counsel with extensive experience across various real markets. Its attorneys actively participate in the National Association of Office and Industrial Properties and local chambers of commerce, drawing on these sources to help clients evaluate the marketplace and consider creative legal strategies. With attorneys licensed in multiple states, we can offer our clients comprehensive counsel.
Because Not All Decisions Are Final, Tenacity Pays Dividends
The Appeals and Legal Issues Group in Cokinos | Young works hand-in-hand with our litigation team to provide clients with thorough representation during all stages of litigation. But they also attract national appellate business in complex cases from outside the firm. They also are called upon to draft persuasive amicus briefs to courts throughout America in support of cases of cutting-edge issues.
Our practitioners handle civil appellate matters covering all types of commercial and business litigation, whether contractual or transactional, employment, energy, business tort, personal-injury, and surety disputes. When necessary, they involve other members of the firm for substantive advice in matters such as real estate, insurance, bankruptcy, or securities. And, like all the firm’s lawyers, our group has particular experience regarding legal issues arising in construction litigation.
Our group includes dedicated appellate attorneys who focus their practice on representation before appeals courts nationwide. But they’re not merely academics; most learned their craft by first fighting tenaciously in the trial courts as trial lawyers before specializing in appeals. That courtroom experience in fighting for our clients sets Cokinos | Young’s appellate lawyers apart from the rest.
Working Hand-In-Hand With The Litigation Team
Cokinos | Young appellate lawyers work from the premise that appellate matters must be considered throughout the litigation process to fully protect clients’ interests and to hold down costs. Early involvement pays dividends. So our appellate counsel routinely advise and consult with trial counsel throughout the development of a lawsuit to preserve error and identify the controlling issues for appeal. Appellate attorneys especially contribute to handling the purely legal issues that arise during any trial, including pre-trial motions, privilege disputes, jurisdictional challenges, petitions for writ of mandamus, research on critical evidentiary issues, and the court’s charge to the jury. Cokinos | Young’s appellate attorneys also bring crucial advice to the strategic decisions made throughout litigation.
Once a matter reaches the appellate process, we target key issues from a fresh perspective, frame them in persuasive appellate briefs, and maximize the unique aspects of appellate oral advocacy in an era of hot courts and short time allotments.
For matters tried by other firms, our attorneys are used to reviewing an unfamiliar case and preparing winning appellate arguments. And when a case is remanded for a new trial, our clients save costs because the Cokinos | Young trial team can then pick up the file without our clients having to bring another firm up to speed.
Cokinos | Young appellate lawyers have a proven track record of success in adding value to our litigation practice, securing favorable decisions for our clients, and tenaciously representing our clients’ positions in the crucible of legal disputes.
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