David L. Tkach, PLLC understands the challenges companies and corporations face in today's ever-changing and volatile business environment. We know that businesses need to respond quickly and efficiently to these challenges and potentially make an opportunity out of every crisis. Whether it is completing an acquisition, raising capital or navigating an inevitably dissolution in order to begin anew, we continuously strive to provide the best service and the best value to our clients. We know that what a business wants an attorney that can be relied upon for sound business-focused advice that will rise to the occasion no matter the query or situation.

We understand that important transactions can demand significant time and resources on a business. Our goal is to help manage those demands and produce optimal results in every transaction. David L. Tkach, PLLC strives to provide practical legal advice to business enterprises of every description for every situation. Many of the typical transactions we assist with are among the following:

• Forming and assisting with the anxieties that come with new corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships
• Developing, discussing and documenting both simple and complex ownership and control structures and buy-sell arrangements
• Traditional mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
• Assisting with joint ventures and licensing agreements
• Other aspects of business transactions, legal due diligence investigations, drafting and negotiating transaction documents
• Developing, protecting and licensing intellectual property, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets
• Working with owners and management to create effective corporate compliance programs and advise them of their legal responsibilities and duties as individuals or entities in that capacity

David L. Tkach, PLLC is familiar with the specific idiosyncrasies of the construction industry. We feel many common problems that arise within this industry can be avoided at the contract negotiation stage through careful attention to the details of the various agreements, clarification of the parties' responsibilities and identification of potential or recurring trouble spots.

We place major emphasis on providing proactive preventative counseling and advice, with the goal of avoiding counter-productive, costly disputes and litigation on the common industry issues such as:

• Payment and contractor claims
• Scheduling and delays
• Defective construction and warranty obligations
• Liens
• Building codes and other regulations

Our overriding goal is to resolve all construction disputes as quickly and efficiently as possible, with the best possible results for our clients.

Never forget the "entertainment business" is a "business." Any artist, writer or other individual with value tied to its image, product or craft should take certain steps to ensure that the intellectual property associated with its "work" is protected. Only when a client's rights surrounding its work are securely established can it feel comfortable going to third parties regarding the marketing, development, or exploitation of this work.

At David L. Tkach, PLLC we provide many methods to protect the work that clients have created or have had a hand in creating. Among those methods are the following:

• Securing copyright protection for musical compositions, scripts, audio-visual material or other works affixed in a tangible medium
• Securing trademark protection for names and images associated with a certain artist or entity
• Drafting and negotiating agreements with record labels, band members, performers, managers, producers, studio musicians, venues or other related persons or entities
• Drafting and negotiating various licensing agreements for intellectual property

David L. Tkach, PLLC understands that many companies or corporations derive a substantial amount of their tangible value from their intellectual property. Therefore, it is essential that when we represent clients of this nature we to come to an understanding regarding the client's business and commercial objectives vis-á-vis its intellectual property. This approach allows David L. Tkach, PLLC to bring a practical and client-centered approach to advising these businesses, and to the structuring, drafting and negotiation of a wide range of agreements covering various forms of intellectual property including, but not limited to:

• Helping businesses develop and enforce a strategy for protecting the business's intellectual property through copyright protection, whether that property is manifested in a written, recorded or electronic format
• Advising business on employment related issues, including the enforcement of confidentiality, non-solicitation and non-competition agreements and resolving issues about the ownership of developments, improvements or other potential property of the business
• Structuring, drafting and negotiation of a wide range of licensing agreements
• Advising clients on issues related to trademark law, including the protection and licensing of trademarks and the enforcement of rights against infringers