• Formation of Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships and Limited Partnerships

• Shareholder (buy-out) Agreements;

• Customer Contracts and Invoices;

• Vendor contracts and invoices;

• Independent contractor and employment agreements;

• Employee handbooks and Employee practices regimes;

• Asset sale agreements;

• Merger and Acquisition agreements

We take a “risk management” approach to devising strategies for businesses in dealing with the many risks they will likely face so that if the worst does happen, the business will have a better chance of weathering the storm. We also do our best to make clients comfortable with routine business transactions.

Consequently, we offer flat fee prices for incorporation, buy-sell agreements, contracts and invoices and other transactions. We offer these flat fee prices so that clients just starting out can discuss as many issues as they wish with us without having to worry that they will receive a huge bill. Flat fee pricing encourages clients to talk to their lawyer; not avoid him.

• Contracts – both land-based and marine

• Real Estate

• Fraud

• Unfair Competition

• Injunctions

• General Partnerships

• Shareholder Disputes

• Tortious Interference

• Trademarks

• Copyrights

We believe in helping clients resolve business litigation matters by employing a combination of:

(1) A deep reservoir of knowledge, experience and expertise

(2) Effective research, analysis and preparation

(3) Creative strategies designed to resolve the matter as expeditiously and efficiently as possible and

(4) An ongoing dialogue – from start to finish — with the client regarding the risks, the costs and the options for resolving the matter.

• Sales of vessels, marinas and marine businesses

• Charters and Preferred Ship Mortgages

• Shipment of goods – bills of lading, NVOCC and freight forwarding

• Contracts for “necessaries” – repairs, supplies, food and other services

• Sales of marinas and other marine businesses 

We also handle maritime litigation involving: 

• Vessel sales, charters, repairs, sinkings and collisions

• Foreclosure of preferred ship mortgages

• General average

• Cargo damage and loss

• Personal injury and death – Jones Act; Longshore Act

• Limitation of Liability Act

• Oil and toxic waste spills

• Salvage claims

• Riparian rights

Mark D. Holmes has been practicing maritime law for seventeen years. He is a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States; General Counsel to the Marina Recreation Association, the largest association of marinas in the Western United States.

Mark has litigated more than 100 maritime cases involving just about every imaginable matter .

2.)Represented a client in recovering for renovation of a yacht. Obtained judgment for client in the amount demanded in complaint; plus attorney’s fees.

3.)Represented a client sued for breaching a long time commercial lease. Settled the matter for less than cost of defense prior to conducting any depositions.

2.) Advised and represented a client in the sale his interest in an automobile dealership, including the underlying real estate.

3.) Advised and represented several clients on the sale of LLC, the main asset held by the LLC being a luxury yacht.