DECLERCQ· PRACTICE / P-03 — BUSINESS & TRANSACTIONS 2,000+ MATTERS CLOSED $350M TRANSACTION VOLUME ADMITTED NJ · NY · PA

Practice — P-03

Business & transactions.

Entity formation, commercial agreements, and negotiation. Counsel with a JD and an MBA.

Fig. 01 — Spiral from above, gold

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The work.

What P-03 covers

BT-01

Entity formation

LLCs and corporations: structure, agreements, records.

BT-02

Commercial agreements

MSAs, SOWs, vendor, licensing-adjacent, and independent-contractor agreements — drafted and negotiated.

BT-03

Negotiation & redlining

Indemnification, limitation of liability, and risk allocation.

BT-04

Disputes, defused

Partnership separations and contract breaches, resolved by agreement where possible.

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The process.

Five steps

The objective

What the agreement must accomplish, before any drafting starts.

Draft or redline

Clean, execution-ready drafts and redlines.

Negotiate the risk

Indemnity, liability caps, and risk allocation negotiated.

Execute

Signatures, filings, and the record kept.

Stand by

Questions answered after signing.

2,000+

Matters closed to date

$350M

Transaction volume

JD·MBA

Legal judgment + financial fluency

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The fee.

Hourly · retainer · in writing

$395–525+ / HR

Transactional work from $395/hr; complex matters from $525/hr. Quoted in writing, first

Retainer paid at engagement, held in trust, applied against the work
Detailed monthly statements: you see where every hour went
Written fee agreement before any work begins
Replenished only if the matter requires it

Retainer amount quoted per matter; final rates confirmed in the written fee agreement after a brief consultation.

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Related matters.

From the case index

DQ-0518

Fig. 02 — Warm shadow study

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Your counsel for this work

Emily K. Declercq, JD·MBA

Admitted NJ · NY · PA · A dedicated paralegal on every matter