When You Need Legal Advice for Your Business
From business formation to assessing business risk, the trusted attorneys at Smith & Adams, Ltd., are ready to meet your corporate law needs.
Our experience and team approach will give you focused support to help you achieve your business' financial and legal goals. Partner Jim Smith serves as general counsel to small and medium-sized businesses around Houston. He brings his experience to our team at Smith & Adams, Ltd. Together we are able to represent your business in many complex areas of corporate law.
Business Formation for a Successful Tomorrow
How you form your business today can significantly impact your business' success tomorrow. Our team of attorneys can help you decide what the best formation strategy is for your business, file the correct documents and choose among the various business models:
- Sole Proprietorship
- Partnership
- Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)
- Limited Liability Company (LLC)
- C-corporation or S-corporation
Document Drafting and Review
Well-drafted business documents offer protection from future business disputes and litigation. We can draft or review your corporation's documents to verify that they conform to corporate laws and your internal business goals. These documents include: bylaws, partnership agreements, operating agreements, management agreements and shareholder documents.
Corporate Governance
While the proper business formation and documents can prevent future disputes, corporations and businesses often run into legal questions. Our accomplished lawyers can answer your questions and manage a variety of your business' issues, including:
- Mergers and acquisitions, including subsidiary formation
- Long- and short-term risk assessment
- Shareholder issues, including shareholder/partnership disputes
- Employer/employee disputes
- Taxation of S-corporations and C-corporations
- Commercial real estate transactions
- Corporate contracts, including employment agreements
- Commercial litigation
Contact Smith & Adams, Ltd.
Contact the corporate law attorneys at Smith & Adams, Ltd., by calling 713-581-1775 or toll-free at 866-930-3658 to discuss your business formation or corporate governance questions. You may also complete our online form.

