Chris Cuneo uses his experience to counsel business owners in addressing a wide array of business-related legal issues that arise as part of operating their business. Among those issues are forming relationships with vendors, distributors, and strategic allies; protecting key information and relationships; assisting with risk avoidance and management; building and protecting intellectual property; developing key employee incentive programs; helping to craft and implement business succession plans; and working with owners on purchases and sales of businesses.
Representative Experience
- Ongoing involvement in the design and implementation of a multi-year, multi-faceted plan to transition control of a closely-held company to the daughter and son of the current owner.
- Handled acquisition of an industry-specialized custom manufacturing business to operate as a symbiotic subsidiary of the parent manufacturing company.
- Worked with advertising agency on the development of executive incentive bonus and phantom ownership plans in connection with a strategic re-shaping of management of the agency.
- Worked with owner of FAA-licensed domestic aircraft repair facility to develop structure, relationships, and infrastructure for global provision of aircraft component manufacturing and repair operations.
- Continuing consultation with art exhibitor and dealer on methods for commercially exploiting the intellectual property developed by the business.
- Involved with divesture of restaurant and winery businesses on behalf of a client family.
- Assistance in developing franchise model for broadening the distribution of online automotive services.
- Development of business succession plan for owner of office-warehouse buildings.
- Handled private placements of stock of manufacturer of conservation tillage and fertilizer application equipment.
- Represented owners of licensee and distributor of value-priced video products in the formation of a strategic ownership relationship to accelerate growth of the company.
- On behalf of parent limited liability company, work with Nicaraguan counsel to address issues which subsidiaries experience in connection with the development of residential real estate in southern Nicaragua.
- Oversee litigation strategy and address longer-term strategic objectives for a fixed based operator at a Colorado airport.
- Provide advice and assistance in the transition to direct manufacturing operations of a food company that has outsourced manufacturing of proprietary products or repackaged products acquired from others.
- Represented manufacturer of decorative concrete products in the licensing of a product line to a national company with complementary lines and existing distribution.