Service Offerings
Wiggin and Dana has committed to providing $10 million in free legal services to minority-owned businesses over 10 years through the Wiggin Opportunity Initiative. The Firm will offer a variety of services to WOI clients to address typical business issues in the areas of employment, real estate, intellectual property, privacy, commercial arrangements, corporate governance, financing, and disputes. The following list illustrates many of the services we expect to provide WOI clients:
Commercial Real Estate
- Leasing
- Assist with strategy
- Review and negotiate letters of intent
- Draft and negotiate commercial leases for office, retail, ground, industrial, and manufacturing space
- Draft and negotiate lender documents such as estoppels and subordination, non-disturbance, and attornment agreements
- Buy/Sell
- Prepare and negotiate purchase and sale agreements
- Perform title review
- Analyze zoning requirements and environmental reports
- Design/Construction
- Negotiate development, design, and construction documents
- Advise on various project delivery models (e.g., design-build, engineer-procure-construct, stipulated sum cost-plus, guaranteed maximum price) and the various industry standard documents and contracts widely used in design and construction
- Customize standard and template documents (e.g., AIA, AGC and ConsensusDOCS)
- Address concerns regarding adherence to design program and approved plans, insurance requirements, construction schedule, and penalties if not met
- Environmental
- Review and analyze environmental reports
- Assist with OSHA compliance
- Represent parties in environmental litigation
- Financing
- Review letters of intent and bank commitments
- Prepare and negotiate loan documents
- Assist with due diligence
- General Real Estate
- Assist with Tax Appeals
- Address property disputes between landlords, tenants, and owners
- Prepare easements and other documents associated with interests in real property
Corporate and Commercial Matters
- Enterprise formation, tax structuring and governance matters
- Initial financing and subsequent equity and debt capital raises
- Review supply, distribution and other commercial and consumer agreements
- Collaborations, acquisitions and other strategic transactions
- Intellectual property prosecution and strategy
- International trade compliance
- Privacy and cybersecurity
- Compliance with consumer protection laws
- Advice with commercial and consumer dispute resolution
Labor, Employment & Benefits
- Drafting or review of employee handbooks or policies, employment agreements and offer letters
- Counseling on employment-related matters, such as
- Hiring practices
- Wage and hour compliance
- Management of employee leaves and accommodation requests
- Employee discipline, termination and separation issues
- Representation in, or advice in connection with, defense of employment-related proceedings or litigation, whether in court or before the EEOC, state agencies, or the Department of Labor. This might include:
- Discrimination, harassment or retaliation claims
- Breach of contract claims
- Litigation involving non-competes or other restrictive covenants
- Claims alleging wage/hour violations under both the FLSA and comparable state laws
- Department of Labor audits or proceedings
- Other employment-related disputes
- Developing immigration sponsorship policies and preparing entity records for employment-based sponsorship
- I-9 compliance best practices training and policy development
- Employment-based immigration sponsorship counseling for entities interested in sponsoring employee work authorization
Private Client Services
- Drafting core estate plan documents of business owners, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, advance medical directives
- Business Succession Planning
- Review of existing corporate governance documents, if any, and updates thereto
- Drafting of basic corporate governance documents, operating agreements, by-laws, etc. and filing with appropriate states
- Advising and drafting documents relating to business continuity and succession planning (e.g., shareholder agreements)
