Business Entity Lawyers for South Dakota

John Mercer is a distinguished corporate counsel who is well-known for turning legal challenges into strategic assets. He possesses a deep understanding and expertise in intellectual property (IP), compliance, and corporate law, particularly in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. His proficiency lies in transforming legal complexities into strategic advantages, ensuring operational excellence, and driving innovation forward. John excels at safeguarding an organization's legal interests and integrity, ensuring operations adhere to the law. As a strategic leader, John excels at safeguarding an organization’s legal interests and integrity, ensuring operations adhere to the law. He also brings immense value to his profession through his skills in drafting, negotiating, and managing significant agreements that secure organizational interests with widespread industry impact. His unparalleled expertise in legal advisories significantly enhances compliance and develops risk management frameworks that protect and advance company ambitions. Moreover, John's command over patent and trademark portfolios, alongside his ability to drive innovation initiatives and design incentive schemes, substantially bolsters intellectual property prowess. John's areas of expertise are extensive, covering skills vital to corporate law, legal contract negotiations, material transfer agreements, and more. He is particularly adept in regulatory compliance, legal consulting, clinical trials, biotechnology, patents, and patent portfolio analysis, to name a few. His leadership is complemented by active listening, analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and other soft skills that make him a leader and visionary.

I am passionate about legal research and writing. I have excellent research and writing skills. My entire legal career has centered around fact-finding, contract and statute interpretation, legal analysis, as well as legal research and writing.

Experiences corporate and general counsel. Particular expertise in all contract matters

Experienced In-House Counsel

Marcia is an experienced business litigation and transactional attorney providing general counsel to individuals and small businesses owners in transactions and business disputes. Marcia's law practice focuses primarily on commercial litigation and transactional law. She represents and defends individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, corporations, and not-for-profit corporations in a variety of commercial and employment disputes including partnership disputes, shareholder disputes, member disputes, and contract disputes. Additionally, she advises clients on transactional matters including contract creation, review, and negotiation, real estate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, donations, corporate governance, municipal governance, policy formation, and various compliance issues.

I graduated honors from the University of Iowa, University of Chicago and Brooklyn Law School. I’m an innovative corporate M&A attorney with 7 years of experience and a software developer experienced in front end development. A highly experienced and entrepreneurial lawyer, I work primarily with business owners and founders in connection with mergers and acquisitions, securities law and software contracts.

Highly skilled attorney with more than 12 years of experience in delivering ongoing support to an international organization, government organizations, law firms, and long-term healthcare facilities. Eager to leverage experience in negotiations, contracts, and strategic planning into a corporate attorney role with room for growth in the organization.

Experienced attorney with a substantial history of crafting, evaluating, and bargaining multimillion-dollar commercial and government contracts across diverse sectors, encompassing the US Army, DoD contractors, employee benefits, NASDAQ, Pharmaceuticals, and Finance.

As a litigator, real estate attorney and owner of a title company, I represent domestic and international clients in a multitude of matters. As a litigator, I represent individuals and companies in commercial litigation and arbitrations. Examples of the cases I have handled in the past include breach of contract cases, shareholder disputes and business torts in the nature of actions for fraud, civil theft, misappropriation of trade secrets, fraudulent transfers and unfair trade practices cases. I have also represented clients in commercial foreclosures and appeals in federal and state courts. I also handle evictions and have represented both landlords and tenants. As a real estate attorney I assist buyers and/or sellers with the purchase or sale of their homes. As an attorney owner of a title company, my goals is to make sure that all the legal aspects of the transaction are taken care of and that my clients are protected. Excellent customer service is a priority for the firm. We have established protocols to make sure that our clients are informed at all times of the status of their transaction and that guaranty the closing of their property runs smoothly at all times.

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