Houston Corporate Restructuring Attorneys
Corporate Restructuring Attorneys Serving Businesses in Houston & Across Texas
At Hendershot Cowart P.C., we understand that business evolution is inevitable. Backed by over 100 years of combined legal experience helping Texas businesses thrive through both basic and complex corporate transformations, our corporate restructuring lawyers provide sophisticated legal guidance to businesses in Houston and across Texas.
Whether you're facing partnership disputes, ownership transitions, or strategic reorganization, our attorneys deliver practical solutions tailored to your specific business needs. We serve businesses at every stage and sector throughout Texas and the greater Houston area, including The Woodlands, Spring, Sugar Land, Katy, Cypress, and Pearland.
From startups to established enterprises, we provide the clear legal strategies you need to achieve your goals.
Is your business facing an ownership transition or partnership dispute? Call Hendershot Cowart P.C. at (713) 783-3110 or contact us online to meet with our skilled Houston corporate restructuring lawyers.
Unlock Growth and Stability: Why Businesses Seek Corporate Restructuring Counsel
Companies typically seek restructuring assistance when facing:
- Liability Protection Needs: Separating entities with high liability from those with valuable assets, creating protective structures before problems arise
- Investment Opportunities: Preparing for sophisticated investors who require specific entity structures, such as converting from LLC to C-Corp
- Ownership transitions due to retirement, disability, or partner exits
- Disputes between partners or shareholders
- Strategic realignment to accommodate growth or market changes
- Merger, acquisition, or business sale opportunities
- Flexibility for future business plans
Our business restructuring lawyers help you navigate these transitions while minimizing disruption to your operations. With strategic legal counsel, we can help transform potential business challenges into opportunities for renewed growth and profitability. We focus on solutions that safeguard your assets and position your business for long-term success.
Your Partner in Transformation: Our Client-Focused Corporate Restructuring Process
Our corporate restructuring lawyers begin with a thorough analysis of your current business structure, identifying vulnerabilities and opportunities. Then, we develop tailored strategies that align with your business objectives while ensuring legal compliance. We work closely with you to understand your vision and build a roadmap for successful change.
Our restructuring services include:
- Strategic Corporate Reorganization: Aligning structure with strategic goals, including reimagining governance structures, modifying corporate mission statements, and implementing operational improvements
- Basic Restructuring: Building a solid legal foundation, including converting sole proprietorships to LLCs, moving from DBAs to formal business entities, protecting personal assets from business liabilities
- Complex Restructuring: Advanced strategies for asset protection and growth, including creating holding companies with operating subsidiaries, dividing businesses by function to limit liability exposure, implementing equity stripping techniques
- Ownership Transitions: Ensuring seamless transitions and preserving value, including managing partner buyouts, structuring equity transfers, and facilitating smooth leadership transitions
- Dispute Resolution: Resolving conflicts to move your business forward, including representing clients in shareholder conflicts, partnership disputes, and breach of fiduciary duty claims
- Transaction Support: Expert legal support for complex deals, including guiding clients through mergers, acquisitions, stock sales, and asset transfers
- Documentation Review and Creation: Crafting the essential legal framework, including drafting or revising shareholder agreements, operating agreements, buy-sell agreements, and corporate bylaws
- Real Estate Restructuring: Optimizing real estate holdings, including creating series LLCs for multiple properties, transferring mortgaged properties with bank cooperation
Our restructuring lawyers prioritize clear communication throughout the process, ensuring you understand the legal implications of each decision while maintaining focus on your business goals. We believe informed clients make the best decisions for their business.
Healthcare Industry Restructuring: Specialized Legal Counsel for Medical Practices
As a law firm with both a thriving corporate law practice and health law practice, our attorneys have extensive experience with medical practices, healthcare facilities, and service providers and suppliers throughout Texas.
We understand the complexity of healthcare partnerships and can guide medical professionals and entrepreneurs through:
- Practice mergers and acquisitions
- Physician buy-ins and buyouts
- Medical practice succession planning
- Regulatory compliance during restructuring (HIPAA, Stark Law, Anti-Kickback, Corporate Practice of Medicine prohibitions)
- Medicare and Medicaid provider requirements
- Navigating physician-hospital joint ventures
- Structuring management services organizations (MSOs)
- Forming new healthcare ventures
Our business restructuring lawyers can help you ensure continuity of patient care while navigating the complex legal and regulatory landscape unique to healthcare entities.
Energy Industry Restructuring: Navigating Volatility with Experienced Legal Guidance
Our restructuring lawyers understand the unique legal considerations and regulatory requirements facing energy companies and provide strategic guidance through industry-specific transitions.
We provide informed legal strategies tailored to the specific challenges and opportunities in the energy sector, including:
- Negotiating partnership disputes in exploration and production companies
- Restructuring energy businesses during market downturns
- Reorganizing corporate structures to attract new investment
- Addressing complex joint operating agreement (JOA) issues
- Navigating midstream and downstream asset restructuring
Startup & Small Business Restructuring: Building a Framework for Sustainable Growth
Growing businesses face unique restructuring challenges. Our corporate restructuring attorneys provide tailored solutions for startups and small businesses, including:
- Resolving founder disputes and clarifying ownership rights
- Restructuring equity arrangements during funding rounds
- Creating governance structures that accommodate growth
- Developing cost-effective legal frameworks for scaling businesses
- Implementing protective measures for intellectual property
- Planning for future investment rounds
- Advising on employee equity and incentive plans
As experienced business restructuring lawyers, we understand the financial constraints of emerging companies and offer practical, affordable solutions that position your business for sustainable growth. We help lay the legal groundwork that supports your innovation and expansion.
Is Your Business Ready for its Next Chapter? Navigate Complex Corporate Change with Confidence.
When your business faces transition, the right legal guidance makes all the difference. At Hendershot Cowart P.C., our corporate restructuring attorneys combine deep legal knowledge with practical business sense to deliver solutions that protect your interests while advancing your objectives. We are dedicated to helping your business navigate change successfully and seize new opportunities.
Learn how we can help your business navigate change. Contact our Houston corporate restructuring lawyers today at (713) 783-3110 to schedule a consultation. Let our experience work for you.
Our FAQ
Have questions? We are here to help. Still have questions or can't find the answer you need? Give us a call at 713-783-3110 today!
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What does a corporate restructuring lawyer do?
A corporate restructuring lawyer provides legal guidance to businesses undergoing significant organizational changes. We analyze your business structure, identify legal issues, and develop strategies to implement changes while minimizing risks. Our work includes drafting and reviewing legal documents, negotiating with stakeholders, resolving disputes, and ensuring compliance with relevant laws.
Corporate restructuring lawyers serve as strategic advisors throughout the transformation process, helping protect the business's interests while facilitating necessary changes to ownership, operations, governance, or financial structure.
Whether you're reorganizing due to growth, addressing partnership disputes, or preparing for a sale, a corporate restructuring lawyer ensures the transition occurs legally and advantageously. We are your legal guides and strategic partners through complex business transformations.
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How is business restructuring different from bankruptcy?
Business restructuring and bankruptcy are distinctly different processes with different purposes and outcomes.
Restructuring is a proactive, voluntary process that businesses undertake to improve operations, resolve conflicts, or adapt to changing conditions – often while the company remains financially viable. It may involve reorganizing debt, changing ownership structures, modifying governance, or streamlining operations.
In contrast, bankruptcy is a legal proceeding initiated when a business cannot meet its financial obligations.
If you're planning to file for bankruptcy, it's already too late to effectively restructure. Any last-minute restructuring could be reversed and considered a "fraudulent transfer" or "preferential transfer" by the courts. Proper restructuring must happen well in advance of financial problems.
Strategic restructuring allows you to isolate liabilities, so if catastrophic events occur, only the affected operational entities need to enter bankruptcy while other entities holding valuable assets (real estate, intellectual property, goodwill) remain protected.
A skilled corporate restructuring lawyer can help businesses implement changes that prevent the need for bankruptcy altogether or minimize its impact if unavoidable. Restructuring is a strategic tool for proactive business health, while bankruptcy is a legal remedy for financial distress.
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What's involved in the corporate restructuring process?
The corporate restructuring process typically follows several key phases:
- Assessment and Analysis: During an initial consultation, our attorneys will discuss what you want to restructure, why you want to restructure, what is the timeframe, and what are your biggest concerns? From there, we will conduct a comprehensive analysis of your business structure, operations, finances, and legal obligations to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities. We begin with a deep dive into your business – understanding your goals, challenges, and current structure to identify opportunities and potential issues.
- Strategy Development: Based on your objectives and our analysis, we next create a tailored restructuring plan aligned with your business objectives, whether that involves resolving partner disputes, reorganizing debt, or preparing for growth. We develop a customized legal strategy designed to achieve your specific business objectives.
- Stakeholder Communication: We help you clearly communicate changes with shareholders, partners, employees, creditors, and other stakeholders to manage expectations and maintain relationships.
- Documentation and Implementation: We handle all necessary legal documentation and execution, including revising legal documents (shareholder agreements, corporate bylaws, partnership agreements, etc.) and guiding the formal implementation of structural changes.
- Dispute Resolution: When conflicts arise during restructuring, we represent your interests through negotiation, mediation, or litigation if necessary.
- Compliance and Follow-up: We ensure all changes are compliant with relevant laws and regulations, then provide ongoing legal support as your business transitions to its new structure.
Throughout this process, your restructuring lawyer serves as both legal counsel and strategic advisor, protecting your interests while facilitating necessary changes. We guide you every step of the way.
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How long does the typical business restructuring process take?
The timeline for business restructuring varies significantly based on multiple factors:
- Complexity of the restructuring: Simple ownership transfers or governance changes might be completed in 2-8 weeks, while comprehensive reorganizations involving multiple business aspects typically take 2-4 months or longer.
- Stakeholder cooperation: When all partners or shareholders agree on the restructuring approach, the process moves more quickly. Disputes or disagreements can extend timelines significantly.
- Third-party approvals: Restructuring may require approvals from lenders, regulatory bodies, or other external parties, each with their own timelines.
- Documentation requirements: Creating, reviewing, and finalizing legal documents takes time, particularly when multiple rounds of revisions are needed.
- Client timeframe and priorities: Many clients prefer to implement restructuring in phases, starting with only the most critical elements. This phased approach allows businesses to address immediate concerns and minimize business disruption while planning for more comprehensive restructuring over time.
Our restructuring attorneys work to establish realistic timelines at the outset of the process, identifying potential bottlenecks and developing strategies to address them.
Throughout the process, we provide regular updates on progress and adjust timelines as needed. While thorough restructuring isn't instantaneous, the investment of time ultimately creates a stronger, more sustainable business foundation. We provide clear communication and realistic expectations regarding the timeline, working efficiently to achieve your desired outcomes.
Why Choose Our Team?
Unwavering Commitment to the Success of our Clients
With over 100 years of combined experience, we bring big firm expertise with boutique firm attention. Whether facing multi-jurisdictional litigation or regulatory issues, we stand by your side, fighting for your success.
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In Business Since 1987.Let us put the full force of our 100+ years of combined experience to work for you.
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We Serve Clients Throughout Texas and the Nation.We handle matters from the Red River to the Rio Grande and beyond.
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We Believe in Prompt, Personal Attention.As a boutique law firm, we unite real experience with personal attention.
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We Want to Be Your Law Firm for Life.We take a vested interest in our clients' success — from start to finish.
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We Shoulder the Legal Burden.™And let you get back to business.
To Us, Every Case is Personal
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