Business formation and start-ups. This includes choosing the right business entity (S or C corporation, general or limited partnership, limited liability company, or limited liability partnership) and structuring the relationship among the founders

Buying and selling businesses

Executive management, director, shareholder and related corporate counseling, including executive compensation and stock plans, employment agreements, employment terminations, consulting agreements, buy/sell agreements, and shareholder and director meetings

Venture capital and corporate finance for companies and investors

Representing scientists and other inventors in Universities and Research Institutes with the funding and commercial exploitation of their ideas, including research collaborations with private industry, consulting agreements and licensing

Intellectual property and technology matters for vendors and users, including computer software licensing, distribution, systems procurement and maintenance, employee and consultant relationships, multimedia ventures, and proprietary protection for copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets

Representing families and family offices

Structuring and forming partnerships, joint ventures and strategic alliances

Settlement and mediation of disputes

Structuring business relationships and solving general business problems

Andy has had business experience as the managing partner and hiring partner of a law firm, and frequently speaks and writes on business and legal issues. He is active in national and state bar activities, has served as Chairman of the Programs Subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Committee on Technology and Intellectual Property, and as Vice-Chair of the State Bar's Corporations Committee.

Andy earned his undergraduate degree with high honors from the University of Michigan in 1977, and his law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1981.

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ATTORNEY PROFILES:

Andrew L. Dudnick
Jeffrey B. Detwiler
Jonathan Rivin
Thomas J. Stikker
William C. Wilka
Jeffrey T. Antonchuk
Robert J. McCoy
Theresa A. Wilka
Matthew D. Disco
Gerald R. Heppler

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