Our attorneys have extensive experience in both corporate transactions and tax planning. Taxes affect all types of business and corporate transactions.

Culp Elliott & Carpenter’s Corporate Governance and Business practice advises private companies, partnerships, private equity funds, investment funds, joint ventures, entrepreneurs and their respective founders, investors and management on a full range of corporate governance and compliance matters.

Culp Elliott & Carpenter provides full-service corporate and transaction counsel to facilitate the structuring, financing and successful completion of acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, mergers, joint ventures/strategic alliances and recapitalizations, debt and equity offerings and other commercial transactions.

Culp Elliott & Carpenter’s Employment Agreements practice focuses on advising clients on how to protect their valuable trade secrets and other valuable intellectual property in a manner that is fully compliant under the law and withstands the scrutiny of the courts.

The Firm represents entrepreneurs, investors and investment bankers who create and fund new business ventures in the private equity and venture capital arena.

Culp Elliott & Carpenter’s Executive and Equity Compensation practice focuses on assisting clients create and maintain effective compensation programs.

We have decades of experience helping clients design and implement effective and tax-efficient family business ownership structures and succession plans. As a family’s assets and businesses grow, the ownership structure becomes more complex. The objective of business organization planning is to create a structure that is simple but provides powerful business, tax and estate planning benefits.