Carthage, Missouri Business Attorneys

Business Organization and Transactions E-Newsletter

When starting a new business or entering into legal transactions for the operation of an existing business, you need to protect both your immediate and future interests. At Checkett & Pauly, P.C., we are dedicated to protecting our clients from initial business formation through the lifetime of the organization and ultimate purchase and sale or dissolution.

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Purchase and Sale of Businesses

We handle transactions related to the purchase and sale of business and business assets, including mergers and acquisitions. Whether you are interested in purchasing a new business or selling an existing one, we can help you take the necessary legal measures to protect your interests.

We are experienced in due diligence investigations, succession planning, partnership valuation, and a wide variety of other issues involved in asset sales and mergers and acquisitions.

Contact our law office in Carthage to schedule a free consultation.

We represent southwest Missouri companies ranging from small family businesses to Fortune 500 companies in manufacturing, distribution, retail, and service industries. From business formation to sophisticated transactions and the protection of complex interests. Attorney Chuck Pauly has more than 30 years of experience helping companies obtain the legal protections they need to promote their bottom-line.

Our business and corporate law practice is focused on protecting your interests today, preventing disputes before they arise, and shielding you from liability as we respond to disputes in a timely, cost-effective manner. Contact Checkett & Pauly for a free consultation with a lawyer and for more information about our business law practice.

Business Formation and Choice of Entity

Business formation requires an assessment of your business goals and objectives and your business model. In understanding your immediate and future goals we can advise you on a choice of entity that will provide an advantageous tax structure and shield you from personal liability.

As an experienced business lawyer, Chuck Pauly handles every aspect of business formation for virtually any proposed business organization, including entity formation, financing, review of shareholder agreements and partnership agreements, mergers, acquisitions, sales of companies, dissolution and business succession planning.

We help clients set up commercial entities in Missouri including:

  • Sole proprietorships
  • Partnerships
  • Joint Ventures
  • S-corporations
  • C-corporations
  • Limited Liability Companies (LLCs)
  • Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs)
  • Nonprofits

Contact Checkett & Pauly, P.C. for a free consultation with an experienced Carthage, Missouri lawyer. Our law firm provides strategic representation with a focus on your personal or business needs.


Checkett & Pauly, P.C.

517 South Main Street
P.O. Box 409
Carthage, MO 64836

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Phone: (417) 358-4049 | Fax: (417) 358-6341

The Carthage, Missouri law firm of Checkett & Pauly, P.C. represents clients throughout southwestern Missouri in communities such as Carthage, Webb City, Joplin, Nevada, Lamar, Mount Vernon, Galena, Kimberling City, Branson, Branson West, Cassville, Monett, Mt. Vernon, Aurora, Pineville, Anderson, Goodman, Neosho, Granby and Springfield.
Jasper County | Vernon County | Barton County | Lawrence County | Stone County |Barry County | McDonald County | Newton County

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