Business Law

Austin Business Attorney: Business Law for Owners, Founders, and Foreign Investors

If you own or are starting a business in Texas or Illinois, the legal pieces should not slow you down. The firm provides plain-spoken counsel from startup formation through growth, transactions, disputes, and eventual sale or succession.

If you own or are starting a business in Texas or Illinois, the legal pieces should not slow you down. The firm provides plain-spoken counsel to small and mid-sized businesses, from startup formation through growth, transactions, disputes, and eventual sale or succession, focusing on the work that prevents bigger problems later.

Attorney Kyle Kinzy has more than 20 years of experience advising business owners in industries ranging from technology and professional services to construction, distribution, hospitality, telecommunications, solar energy, franchising, and agriculture. Business law rarely happens in isolation: tax, employment, real estate, intellectual property, and immigration questions often come up in the same conversation, and the firm knows how to spot them.

How the Firm Helps: From Formation To Exit

Formation and structure
Choosing and forming the right entity (LLC, S corporation, partnership, or other) and putting in place the operating agreements, shareholder agreements, and governance documents that prevent disputes later, plus entity conversions, restructurings, and the legal side of bringing on co-owners or investors.

Contracts and commercial agreements
Customer contracts, supplier and service agreements, licensing, distribution, employment and independent-contractor agreements, and NDAs, the everyday paperwork that determines whether you get paid, stay protected, and keep your business when something goes wrong.

Outside general counsel
For owners who do not need a full-time lawyer but want one a phone call away, the firm offers fractional outside general counsel arrangements.

Transactions
Asset and stock purchases, sales, mergers, joint ventures, and partner buyouts. The firm brings both transactional experience and litigation perspective, drafting agreements with an eye to how they would hold up if things go sideways.

Business disputes
When negotiation does not work, the firm represents businesses in commercial litigation, arbitration, and mediation.

Foreign Business Owners: When Business Law and Immigration Meet

If you are a foreign national starting, acquiring, or expanding a U.S. business, your legal needs almost always cross business law and immigration at once. The U.S. entity structure has to support the visa case; the capitalization, lease, and employment documents have to align with what USCIS expects to see; and the source-of-funds documentation has to satisfy both the business transaction and the immigration filing. The firm handles these pieces together rather than asking you to coordinate three different lawyers.

This integrated approach is one of the strongest parts of the practice. Common pathways include the E-2 Treaty Investor visa for active business ownership, the L-1A for executives expanding a foreign company to the U.S., and franchise ownership as an entry point into U.S. markets. See the Investor Visas and International Clients pages for the broader picture.

Industries We Know Well: Sectors the Firm Works in Regularly

• Franchise owners and small franchise systems
• Ranching, farming, and agricultural businesses
• Construction and trades
• Distribution, telecommunications, and international trade
• Solar power and renewable energy
• Professional services and consultancies
• Hospitality and retail