About the Business Law Attorney
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Karen Mills' breadth of experience extends into the areas of business and corporate transactional law where she has advised a variety of entities on issues related to mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financing, corporate governance and other general corporate matters. Having served as a partner in the corporate practice at one of Atlanta's oldest law firms, Karen values her client relationships and benchmarks her success against the longevity of those relationships.
Earlier in her career, Karen was an electrical engineer with Duke Power Company and designed electrical distribution systems to serve residential, commercial and industrial customers. Karen then managed the organization's Transmission Line Lightning Reliability Improvement Program, providing technical and engineering expertise to support substation and transmission structure standards. Karen also leveraged her engineering background in her legal career. She provided advice to her clients regarding the evaluation of technology to assess patentability, prosecution of patent applications, and patent licensing. Karen has continued to use her technical expertise for issues regarding intellectual property. |
Business Law Services:
Business Counseling
Mills Law helps companies like yours solve a range of business issues. In the current competitive global marketplace, firms must be innovative, strategic and creative. Mills Law will work closely with your management team and provide counsel on business operations, divestitures, strategic alliances and general corporate matters.
Business Formations
We can guide you through the process of forming a business and advise you on the items for consideration in choosing the most appropriate legal structure for your business.
And, of course, we can prepare legal documents to include, but not limited to, the following:
Contract Review, Negotiation & Drafting
We will evaluate your existing contracts as well as advise your management team on new agreements to help ensure your assets are fully protected; we can also assist you by drafting these new legal agreements. Mills Law will assist your business with the tactical and practical issues that typically arise in the negotiations process. Our focus for our clients is to mitigate risk and maximize assets.
Some examples of contracts, we have reviewed, negotiated and/or drafted include, without limitation:
Corporate Governance
Understanding your business environment is our priority. Mills Law will efficiently grasp your company's scope of work and organizational structure and explore the drivers of your company's culture. We work with your management team and board members to help ensure all company policies, procedures and practices promote sound corporate oversight.
We commit our efforts to address our clients' principal-agent issues, and then, we proactively seek to resolve them.
Technology Law
Mills Law enables clients to understand and maximize the return on investment of intellectual property and licensing agreements. We have extensive experience with technology law, and we have direct experience with technology, further enabling us to create a competitive advantage for our clients.
We offer expertise on the following:
Purchase and Sale of Business
We will partner with your management team to help your company acquire or divest of a business or specific business assets. For our clients, we can manage all aspects of the selling and purchasing process. Most importantly, we conduct the critical due diligence, preceding your initial company's transaction.
Our services include, but are not limited to, the following:
Mills Law helps companies like yours solve a range of business issues. In the current competitive global marketplace, firms must be innovative, strategic and creative. Mills Law will work closely with your management team and provide counsel on business operations, divestitures, strategic alliances and general corporate matters.
Business Formations
We can guide you through the process of forming a business and advise you on the items for consideration in choosing the most appropriate legal structure for your business.
And, of course, we can prepare legal documents to include, but not limited to, the following:
- Articles of Incorporation
- Articles of Organization
- Consents and Resolutions
- Shareholders Agreements
- Operating Agreements
- Organizational Minutes
Contract Review, Negotiation & Drafting
We will evaluate your existing contracts as well as advise your management team on new agreements to help ensure your assets are fully protected; we can also assist you by drafting these new legal agreements. Mills Law will assist your business with the tactical and practical issues that typically arise in the negotiations process. Our focus for our clients is to mitigate risk and maximize assets.
Some examples of contracts, we have reviewed, negotiated and/or drafted include, without limitation:
- Consulting agreements
- Joint venture/Teaming agreements
- Customer processing agreements
- Distribution agreements
- Employment agreements
- Independent contractor agreements
- Quality assurance agreements
- Release agreements
- Security agreements
- Supply agreements
Corporate Governance
Understanding your business environment is our priority. Mills Law will efficiently grasp your company's scope of work and organizational structure and explore the drivers of your company's culture. We work with your management team and board members to help ensure all company policies, procedures and practices promote sound corporate oversight.
We commit our efforts to address our clients' principal-agent issues, and then, we proactively seek to resolve them.
Technology Law
Mills Law enables clients to understand and maximize the return on investment of intellectual property and licensing agreements. We have extensive experience with technology law, and we have direct experience with technology, further enabling us to create a competitive advantage for our clients.
We offer expertise on the following:
- Intellectual property transactions
- Software and patent licensing issues
- Development agreements and web hosting agreements
- Privacy statements, independent contractor and consulting agreements
- Nondisclosure, noncompete and confidentiality agreements
Purchase and Sale of Business
We will partner with your management team to help your company acquire or divest of a business or specific business assets. For our clients, we can manage all aspects of the selling and purchasing process. Most importantly, we conduct the critical due diligence, preceding your initial company's transaction.
Our services include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Initial planning and negotiations
- Negotiation of letters of intent
- Conduct due diligence on target entity (e.g., review of corporate governance documents, employee contracts, operational contracts, etc.)
- Negotiation and drafting of purchase and sale agreements (e.g., asset purchase agreements, stock purchase agreements)
- Preparing for and conducting closing of transaction
- Assistance in post-closing matters for transaction