Business Law Experience

John Boyce offers over 45 years of experience in commercial transactions and family-owned business and has practiced in both state and federal trial and appellate courts. His services include:

  • Establish company structures: LLC, LPs, etc.
  • Business start-ups
  • Business and tax planning
  • Business-related estate planning
  • Interfamily/owner relationship support
  • Business leadership transition and succession
  • Working with minority shareholders
  • Dispute resolution
  • Working with non-active family owners
  • Negotiating leases, lending agreements, licensing agreements
  • Serving as general counsel
  • Assisting litigation counsel
  • Vetting investment advisors and other legal and financial professionals
  • Collections
  • Working with outside vendors

John is seasoned in setting up business entities from limited liability companies (LLC), to limited partnerships, to corporations and preparing/reviewing agreements of all kinds, including:

  • Cross-Purchase
  • Buy-Sell
  • Stock Redemption
  • Sale and Leasebacks
  • Lending
  • Guaranties
  • Mortgages
  • Contracts
  • Real Estate
  • Royalties
  • Lease
  • Title
  • Regulatory; and
  • Asset and Stock Purchase Agreements

Case Studies

COUNSEL TO A FAMILY BUSINESS

One of my long-time clients is an old West Texas family with significant holdings in ranching, oil and gas, investments and insurance. While they have been in business more than a century, many of their investments, managed by trusts from the 1940s and 1950s, continue to operate, but now as limited partnerships. Generally, members are limited partners. They are quite intelligent and well-educated....read more.

TRANSFORMING A NON-PROFIT

I was asked to chair the Search Committee for a new executive director of a century-old non-profit organization with a $2.5mm+ operating budget, a sizable staff, a high profile in the community, and significant assets, including a large endowment and a for-profit apartment complex on its grounds. The organization had been racked by terribly bitter...read more.

– John K. Boyce III

John Boyce – business and commercial dispute resolution attorney in Texas

John K. Boyce III
Business Law Attorney