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Toolkit to Elevate Your Business

Lavelle Law • May 13, 2021

A Good Morning Schaumburg Presentation


Are you looking to start or grow your business as we emerge from the pandemic? Are you considering changing your existing business from a sole proprietorship to an LLC or an S Corporation? In a recent “Good Morning Schaumburg” presentation, Lavelle Law attorneys discussed how to choose the correct entity for your business, as well as how to structure the relationships among the entity and its owners through the careful use of shareholder and operating agreements. New and emerging businesses seeking to raise capital learned how they can do so through certain private placements of their securities without the need to incur the time and expense of registering them with the SEC and the Illinois Securities Department. Watch this video as attorneys Ted McGinn, Samantha Bonamassa, and Steve Migala outline the tools needed to grow your business. For follow-up questions, reach out to one of the attorneys at 847-705-7555.


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