Business Law

Central Pennsylvania Business Law Attorneys

Many of the lawyers at Shaffer & Engle Law Offices, LLC are small business owners who have grown up among family-owned businesses. As such, we pride ourselves on having a keen eye for the factors that make up a successful business. We feel that in order to facilitate the success of your business organization and your long term goals, you must know the steps to take to protect your business assets from any potential liabilities, or other forms of interference.

We can help you identify any potential hazards to the growth of your business and implement carefully-tailored strategies to avert any adverse consequences. Since 1951, we have been providing skillful legal counsel and high quality representation to business entities throughout central Pennsylvania. To discuss your business goals or concerns with a knowledgeable, confident, and experienced lawyer, please contact our firm today.

Our firm represents sole proprietors, multiple shareholder organizations, small businesses, and large corporations among others. We assist all of our business clients with the following issues:

• Business formation
• Drafting of contracts
• Corporate book maintenance
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Sales and transfers
• Transfers of stock
• Entity choice and formation
• Tax issues
• Lease agreements
• Install and sales agreements
• Estate planning for business owners

Our attorneys are able to determine exempt and non-exempt assets under the Estate Planning Post Deficit Reduction Act, and help you manage your business assets in order to shelter them from a Medicare or Medicaid pay down. We will protect your business in order to ensure that you are able to pass it down to your children.

To help with the formation selection process, we will assess your individual situation, by evaluating the amount of assets involved, your exposure to liability, any tax implications, and all other pertinent factors. Entity choices include:

• Subchapter S corporation
• Subchapter C corporations
• LLCs
• LLPs
• Partnerships
• Sole proprietorships

Subchapter C corporations must pay taxes on both the corporation and the income derived. Subchapter S corporations, on the other hand, are those businesses with fewer than 50 shareholders and less than $5 million threshold in assets. These organizations are required to pay taxes on only the income derived from the corporation. It should be noted that both types of subchapter corporations also avoid personal liability on the part of the owners/shareholders.

Shareholders in any type of corporation are required to record corporate minutes on an annual basis. Our attorneys can also assist you in this process, as well as help ensure proper federal compliance throughout your entire organization.

Trust over 65 years experience from the highly regarded business organization lawyers at Shaffer & Engle Law Offices, LLC located in Millersburg and Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Contact us today to discuss your business formation, planning, transactional, growth, or sales objectives.