Business, Legal, and Tax-Aware Guidance
Strategic Business Law Counsel for Owners, Entrepreneurs, and Privately Held Companies
Your legal decisions should support your business goals, protect what you have built, and account for the financial consequences that may follow.
Arthur D. Warady provides experienced business law counsel informed by 50 years of legal practice, CPA training, and more than 30 years of firsthand entrepreneurial experience.
Based in Boca Raton, Arthur works directly with clients in Florida and New York, as well as businesses whose operations, agreements, and relationships extend throughout the United States and around the world.
Direct Access to Your Attorney
| Business and Tax Insight
| Customized Legal Strategies
Business, Legal, and Tax-Aware Guidance
Strategic Business Law Counsel for Owners, Entrepreneurs, and Privately Held Companies
Your legal decisions should support your business goals, protect what you have built, and account for the financial consequences that may follow.
Arthur D. Warady provides experienced business law counsel informed by 50 years of legal practice, CPA training, and more than 30 years of firsthand entrepreneurial experience.
Based in Boca Raton, Arthur works directly with clients in Florida and New York, as well as businesses whose operations, agreements, and relationships extend throughout the United States and around the world.
Direct Access to Your Attorney
| Business and Tax Insight
| Customized Legal Strategies
50
50 Years of Legal Experience
CPA since 1970
Lawyer Since 1973
30+ Years of Entrepreneurial Experience
Direct Attorney Access
Business Counsel Built Around the Decisions You Need to Make
A business lawyer should understand more than statutes, forms, and contract language. Your attorney should understand how decisions affect your operations, ownership, cash flow, taxes, employees, customers, and long-term plans.
Arthur D. Warady has experienced business from both sides of the attorney-client relationship. In addition to practicing law, he formed, operated, grew, and exited several businesses, including software companies and an employee benefits firm.
This combination of legal, business, technology, and accounting experience allows Arthur to identify concerns that may be missed when a matter is viewed from only one perspective.
You will work directly with Arthur. He takes time to understand your business, clarify your objectives, and develop a legal strategy suited to your specific circumstances.
Business Legal Services for Every Stage of Your Company
Whether you are launching a company, negotiating an important agreement, managing growth or preparing for a transition, Arthur provides practical legal guidance that accounts for both immediate needs and long-term consequences.
Business Formation
Establish your business on a stronger legal foundation. Arthur can help you evaluate ownership, liability, governance, management, and tax considerations before selecting and forming your business entity.
LLCs, Corporations & S Corporations
Get guidance on limited liability companies, corporations, professional entities, and S corporation elections. Services may include formation documents, operating agreements, bylaws, ownership provisions, and corporate governance.
Business Contracts
Protect your interests with contracts written for the actual relationship and transaction. Arthur drafts, reviews, and negotiates business agreements, service agreements, construction contracts, employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, nondisclosure agreements, and licensing arrangements.
Outside General Counsel
Gain ongoing access to experienced business counsel without maintaining a full-time in-house legal department. Arthur can assist with contracts, governance, compliance, transactions, ownership matters, and emerging business concerns.
Buying or Selling a Business
A business acquisition or sale can affect ownership, liability, taxes, employees, intellectual property, and future income. Arthur helps clients evaluate, structure, document, and complete business transactions with greater clarity.
Business Succession
Prepare for a planned transition, retirement, sale, transfer, or unexpected event. Arthur works with owners to address succession, ownership continuity, governance, key-person concerns, and the transfer of business interests.
Intellectual Property & Technology Agreements
Protect and commercialize valuable ideas, software, systems, content, and business information. Services include software licensing, technology licensing, SaaS agreements, work-made-for-hire provisions, confidentiality agreements, and intellectual property ownership terms.
Tax-Aware Business Planning
Business contracts and transactions often create tax consequences. Drawing on his legal background and CPA training, Arthur helps clients identify potential tax issues and coordinate important decisions with their accountants and financial advisors.
A Business Lawyer Who Has Been a Business Owner
Arthur understands the pressures involved in making payroll, negotiating with vendors, protecting intellectual property, managing employees, developing products, and preparing a company for growth or sale.
He has founded and commercialized multiple businesses, including two software companies. He has designed software for estate planning, financial planning, pension analysis, and employee benefit administration. He is also a co-inventor of a patented health and welfare plan administration system.
This background gives Arthur a practical perspective when evaluating legal risks and business opportunities.
Key Benefit List
- You receive advice shaped by real business experience.
- You work directly with Arthur throughout the engagement.
- Your legal strategy is based on your specific goals.
- Contracts are evaluated in the context of the full business relationship.
- Tax considerations are identified before major decisions are finalized.
- Complex legal and business issues are explained in clear language.
Legal Counsel Tailored To Your Industry
Different industries face different contracts, risks, regulations, and operating pressures. Arthur represents privately owned businesses across a range of sectors, with experience in the following areas.
Construction Companies
Legal guidance for general contractors, subcontractors, specialty contractors, and design-build firms. Services may address entity formation, AIA and custom construction contracts, licensing, bonding, bidding, change orders, cost overruns, payment concerns, and business governance.
“Arthur’s construction industry experience also includes industry commercial insurance requirements, and dispute resolution, including mediation and binding arbitration.”
Consultants
Protect your consulting practice with clear engagement terms, payment provisions, intellectual property protections, and risk-management strategies. Arthur works with management, finance, software, IT, cybersecurity, and other professional consultants.
Technology, Software & SaaS
Arthur combines legal knowledge with firsthand software development and commercialization experience. He assists technology companies with formation, licensing, SaaS agreements, intellectual property, executive agreements, capital considerations, acquisitions, and sales.
Manufacturing Companies
Manufacturers rely on carefully structured relationships with owners, suppliers, distributors, customers, contractors, and employees. Arthur helps manufacturing companies address business contracts, governance, licensing, intellectual property, acquisitions, succession, and tax-aware planning.
“Arthur also helps manufacturing companies evaluate and address the complex and unique commercial insurance needs of manufacturing companies.”
Privately Owned Businesses
Arthur advises closely held and family-owned businesses through formation, growth, ownership changes, transactions, disputes and succession. Every recommendation begins with an understanding of the owner’s personal and commercial objectives.
“He understands the importance of corporate governance compliance for liability protection, and to prepare a company for sale.”
Legal Planning That Accounts for Tax Consequences
An agreement can look favorable until its tax consequences are considered.
Entity selection, ownership changes, compensation structures, real estate holdings, business acquisitions, asset sales and succession plans can produce different legal and tax results.
Arthur’s CPA background allows him to recognize potential tax concerns, explain the questions that should be addressed and collaborate more effectively with your accountant or tax advisor.
This integrated approach can help you make informed decisions before signing an agreement or completing a transaction.
Important Clarification
Legal and tax considerations depend on the specific facts involved. Information on this website is general and does not constitute legal, accounting or tax advice.
A Clear and Direct Engagement Process
1
Introductory Meeting
Arthur begins by learning about your business, the matter requiring attention, your objectives and your expected time frame. This conversation helps determine whether his experience and services align with your needs.
2
Defined Scope and Recommendations
When appropriate, Arthur prepares an engagement letter summarizing the matter, proposed scope of work, the legal service he recommends, and a fee quote.”
3
Engagement and Legal Work
After the engagement letter is signed and the required retainer is received, Arthur begins the agreed work and communicates directly with you as the matter progresses.
Trusted by Business Owners and Professionals
“Arthur has a tremendous legal and technical mind and is a true asset in any professional capacity.”
Don Draper, Former CIO, Rapid Data
“I appreciate his straightforward approach, clear thinking, understandable explanations and quality of service.”
Bruce Gomberg, MD
“Arthur has a unique ability to present complex issues in a concise manner that helps facilitate a good business decision.”
Robert W. Owen, CLU, ChFC, Principal, Benefit Insurance Group
“He was quick to realize that I was headed down the wrong path, alerted me, and helped me find a better way.”
Magda Stenzel, Founder, StringFlix LLC
Frequently Asked Questions About Business Law Services
What types of businesses does Arthur D. Warady represent?
Arthur represents owners of privately held companies, construction companies, consultants, technology and software businesses, SaaS companies, manufacturing companies, and businesses in other professional and commercial industries.
Can Arthur help me choose between an LLC and a corporation?
Yes. Arthur can help you evaluate liability protection, ownership, management, governance, future transactions, and potential tax considerations before forming an LLC, corporation, or other business entity.
What does tax-aware legal care mean?
Tax-aware legal care means evaluating the potential tax consequences of contracts, entity choices, and business transactions as part of the legal planning process. Arthur can also coordinate with your accountant or tax advisor when appropriate.
Can Arthur serve as outside general counsel?
Yes. Arthur can provide ongoing legal support to businesses that need experienced counsel but do not require a full-time in-house attorney. The scope can be tailored to the company’s contracts, governance, transactions, and operating concerns.
Does the firm work with clients outside Boca Raton?
Yes. The firm is based in Boca Raton and serves clients in Florida and New York. Arthur also works with businesses that have multistate operations, national relationships, and international commercial matters, subject to the requirements of each engagement.
Will I work directly with Arthur?
Yes. Clients work directly with Arthur from the initial discussion through the legal engagement. This allows him to understand the business, its owners, and the reasoning behind each decision.
Can Arthur review an existing business contract?
Yes, Arthur reviews, drafts, and negotiates many types of business agreements. He evaluates the contract language, the business relationship, potential liabilities, intellectual property concerns, and other consequences relevant to the transaction.
When should I contact a business lawyer?
You should consider speaking with a business lawyer before forming a company, contracting for business insurance,
adding an owner, signing a significant contract, buying or selling a business, licensing technology, changing your ownership structure or planning a business succession.
Business Law Guidance for Informed Owners
Legal and business issues are easier to manage when you identify them early. Explore practical articles and answers addressing business entities, contracts, tax considerations, intellectual property, transactions, and other concerns affecting privately owned companies.
Business Law FAQs
Get straightforward answers to frequently asked business law questions.
Business Law Blog
Read Arthur’s commentary on legal, tax, and business planning topics.
Discuss Your Business and Legal Objectives with Arthur
Your business deserves legal counsel that understands the decision behind the document.
Speak directly with Arthur D. Warady about your company, contract, transaction, or planning concern.
Office Information
4800 N. Federal Highway, Suite B200, Boca Raton, Florida 33431
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