Business Attorney in Los Angeles
Accord & Shield Legal advises Los Angeles companies across the city's vast and varied economy — media and entertainment, technology, e-commerce, real estate, and professional services. With California as our founding jurisdiction, we bring business-law depth to LA founders and established companies alike.
California Roots, Los Angeles Reach
Los Angeles runs on contracts — production deals, licensing, vendor agreements, partnership structures — and California enforces them under some of the strictest business and employment rules anywhere. California was attorney Nadine Deeb's first bar admission, so we draft and review with those standards as the baseline. We serve LA businesses countywide by phone and video, giving you focused counsel without travel across the basin.
How We Help Los Angeles Businesses
From production and licensing deals to e-commerce terms and partnership structures, Los Angeles businesses run on contracts. Whatever stage your LA company is at, we help with:
- Business formation — choosing and setting up the right entity
- Contract drafting and review — the agreements that run your business
- Mergers and acquisitions — buying or selling a business
- Negotiations — getting the best terms and protecting your position
- Partnership dissolution — partner buyouts and clean exits
- Business disputes — resolving conflicts efficiently
- Intellectual property and trademarks — protecting what you build
Serving Los Angeles and the Greater LA Area
From Downtown and the Westside to the San Fernando Valley, Pasadena, and the South Bay, we work with companies throughout Los Angeles County. Learn more about our California business law practice, or see all the areas we serve on our service areas page.
Los Angeles Business Law FAQs
We don't keep a Los Angeles office, and for business law that's by design — most of our work (contracts, formation, M&A, advisory) is handled efficiently by phone and video. What matters is that attorney Nadine Deeb is admitted to the State Bar of California, so your Los Angeles matters are handled under California law by a California-licensed attorney.
California's business and employment rules are among the strictest in the country — the ABC test for worker classification, pay transparency requirements, and consumer-protection statutes that don't exist elsewhere. Contracts drafted to another state's standard often fail here. Because California was Nadine Deeb's first bar admission, we draft and review with California's standards as the baseline.
Yes. California — and its technology sector in particular — is where much of our business-law experience was built. We help founders and growing companies with formation, founder and IP-assignment agreements, customer and vendor contracts, fundraising-adjacent documents, and the employment issues that come with scaling a team.
Protect Your Los Angeles Business
Whether you're forming a company, signing a deal, or facing a dispute, we'll help you do it right. Serving Los Angeles and all of California — plus our home base in Arizona, and our growing Texas practice.