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Construction
The Team at Zinzow Law understands and are experts at serving the construction and development industry. Our attorneys and legal professionals are experienced advisors in all phases and aspects of the construction and development industry, whether you are a prime, such as a general, building, or residential contractor, or a trade, such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, underground utilities, civil site, roofer, or any other trade. We also provide assistance to material suppliers and design professionals. We can assist in the preliminary stages with regulatory compliance and contract negotiation. During construction, we interpret contractual provisions and resolve conflicts. For completed projects, we resolve payment and contract disputes, and address issues with liens, bonds, and construction defects. We have represented clients in a variety of forums including state and federal court, arbitration, and mediation. Understanding both the law and business, we work to provide practical advice and seek expedient solutions. We help build solutions to the problems affecting your residential, commercial, industrial or public development projects. Zinzow Law serves its clients throughout the state of Florida, including all regions of Tampa Bay (such as Pasco, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Sarasota counties), and the growing metropolises of Orange, Marion, Lake, Lee, and Volusia counties. Browse our specialties to the left or call us to learn more.
Contracts
Assertively negotiating construction contracts. Whether it is in the negotiation of the deal or interpretation of obligations and rights, the contract is central to resolving construction law problems. By retaining experienced legal professionals to negotiate your construction contracts, you can often prevent or reduce unnecessary risk, save time and money, and feel confident you have made the most beneficial deal. We draft contracts for a wide variety of clients, including property owners, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers. While we draft contracts to meet your specific needs, we are also familiar with standard forms and provisions used in the construction industry, and can advise how Florida law plays a role. We frequently work with:
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Liens, Bonds, Collection
Reducing your risk of non-payment. Construction liens, often called mechanics’ liens, can be an effective tool in protecting the rights of a contractor, subcontractor, or supplier. Our lawyers know how to protect client rights under Florida’s lien laws. Because of strict time frames and strict legal requirements, it is best to seek legal advice as soon as possible. Our team of legal professionals also have expertise in private and public bonding and notices of non-payment. Whether you are attacking a lien, notice of non-payment or performance bond claim, or asserting one, the construction experts at Zinzow Law are here to help. We regularly assist our clients with:
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Defects
Florida’s construction defect laws expose construction professionals for alleged defects for as long as ten years following completion of a project. Construction defects and warranty issues are often a contentious source of dispute. Our legal professionals have represented project owners to obtain redress for defects and to enforce warranties as well as contractors and subcontractors in defending claims. We help our clients with:
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Safety/OSHA
Construction is a dangerous occupation that can have life and death consequences. Construction safety is highly regulated by OSHA and other agencies, as well as by contract. A jobsite accident or unexpected safety inspection can substantially impede jobsite progress, and an OSHA citation can cost you many thousands of dollars, and even impede your ability to procure future work. Zinzow Law’s legal professionals have developed expertise advising contractors in best practices, performing evidence preservation triage following an accident, and in defending contractors against OSHA citations and notifications of penalty. We can help you with:
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Insurance
Insurance can be a valuable tool if proper coverage is procured, and worthless paper if it is not. Our legal professionals have extensive knowledge about coverage available, the differences between policy forms, and how to integrate insurance into a construction contract and project. Insurance companies can also wrongfully deny claims or mishandle them. If an insurance company has denied or disclaimed your coverage, our legal professionals can help you get the protection, and coverage you need to move forward. Zinzow Law is here to assist you with:
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Licensing
Florida is a tangled web of licensing laws. These laws can ensnare even the most careful contractors and design professionals. Licensing violations can lead to project red tags, discipline, fines, and serious reputation problems. Our construction experts can advise you on how to avoid these traps and, if you have fallen into one, defend your license and your livelihood. Our expertise includes:
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Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation
Aggressive resolution to construction disputes. A breached contract can cause havoc on a project, and impact profitability and reputation. When it is in the best interest to solve a construction dispute outside the courtroom, our skilled attorneys can guide negotiations in mediation or outside of mediation towards win-win solutions, often preserving business relationships and avoiding expenses and uncertainty associated with litigation. If litigation is necessary, our attorneys ardently attack the issues from commencement through trial. Arbitration is also common in construction law. We have experience presenting our clients’ cases effectively to the arbitrators, and assisting our clients with enforcing arbitration awards. Regardless of which dispute resolution mechanism is required or appropriate, you can expect the legal professionals at Zinzow Law to develop and discuss with you, at the outset, a written plan containing all major milestones from commencement through successful conclusion.
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Real Estate, Lending & More
Construction and Development professionals have unique real estate, lending, and other needs. Whether you are acquiring or selling your corporate headquarters, developing a new project, or seeking financing, you deserve legal professionals who understand your unique needs while simultaneously possessing the expertise to guide and assist you. Zinzow Law regularly assists its clients with:
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Business, Labor, Tax & More
The experts at Zinzow Law know the business of construction. Whether you are a contractor building vertical, or a developer contemplating the build, stability is key to profitability. We know how to assist you with safely introducing a new partner, protecting your company from a rogue employee, tax savings strategies, and planning for ownership succession and retirement. Call us to discuss:
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Business
The Team at Zinzow Law understands and are experts at serving the business needs of our clients. Our clients include multi-billion dollar publicly traded conglomerates to closely held corporations, and companies of all shapes and sizes in between. Our attorneys and legal professionals are experienced advisors in all phases and aspects of startup, growth, succession, and everything in between. We provide assistance to business owners and executives as they form new ventures, bring on partners, exit partners by consent or by force, acquire and sell business assets or the businesses themselves, and plan for retirement and succession. We can assist in the preliminary stages with regulatory compliance, best practices, and contract negotiation. During your growth phase, we can assist with labor and employment matters, lending, foreclosure, and collections defense, tax matters, and a myriad of real estate and other transactions. If dispute resolution become necessary, we can represent your organization’s interests in mediation, litigation, and arbitration. We have represented clients in a variety of forums including state and federal court, arbitration, and mediation. Understanding both the law and business, we work to provide practical advice and seek expedient solutions. We help build solutions to the problems affecting your company. Zinzow Law serves its clients throughout the state of Florida, including all regions of Tampa Bay (such as Pasco, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Sarasota counties), and the growing metropolises of Orange, Marion, Lake, Lee, and Volusia counties. Browse our specialties to the left or call us to learn more.
Business Formation & Partnership Documentation
Proactively advising business owners and executives. Organizational documents are the foundation to a successful business. The team at Zinzow Law understands the importance of getting this right. State law provides many benefits to a properly organized company, and provides many penalties and pitfalls to companies, their owners, and their executives if they fail to properly document the organization and internal governance of a business. The failure to consider these complexities can lead to disqualification of tax benefits, state and federal penalties, and even the loss of protection against outside creditors or from an inside wrongdoer, whether that person a partner or an employee. We have the experience to proactively guide you in a manner that avoids these pitfalls, because we have seen them all. Team Z can form your organization, as well as recommend appropriate entity type and structure, such as C corporation, S corporation, LLC, Limited liability Limited partnership, or the like. We can draft articles of organization, operating agreements, shareholder agreements, bylaws, and many other such documents which are prudent and necessary to comply with state law and to protect your American dream. Zinzow Law can also provide you with guidance on procuring appropriate state and local licensing which may be necessary for you to operate your business. Zinzow Law regularly assists its clients with:
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Partner/Owner Disputes
Resolving partnerships gone bad. The Lawyers and Legal Professionals at Team Zinzow Law are here to advise, assist, and protect you when your business partnership has gone bad. Despite the best of intentions, fellow partners, shareholders, or members do not always see eye to eye on the growth, management, or sale of a business. These disputes often concern wages paid to officers or majority shareholders, dividend declaration, risk the organization or its owners may be divided on, lending, bonding, or other personal liability issues, and even sale of the business or some of its assets. We can assist you with amicably resolving these disputes through negotiation, mediation, or other non-adversarial activities. We have seen the good go bad, and have helped to turn the bad back to good. We have also assisted our clients with extricating, by force where necessary, those who no longer see eye to eye with the company's majority shareholder or the company's strategic plan. Zinzow Law also excels at pursuing departed owners, shareholders, members, partners, officers, and directors for breach of fiduciary duty, as well as defending them. Zinzow Law regularly assists its clients with:
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Acquisition and Sale
Expert business advice and contract drafting. Whether you are acquiring or selling a business, or that piece of the business you own, the lawyers and legal professionals at Zinzow Law are here to help. Acquisition of a business can be a dream, but also carries significant risks. Appropriate purchase and sale agreements, with all material terms addressed, including representations and warranties, should be negotiated carefully and documented precisely. Purchasers often benefit from the assistance of industry experts and legal professionals during the due diligence phase of any acquisition, given their ability to issue spot and problem solve. The prospect of acquiring an ongoing business will also assume that the business can continue its operations on interrupted, or that you may be able to apply its assets immediately to work in another of your businesses. Such activities will require appropriate consideration of the rights of lienholders and other creditors, licensing, and often times even bonding. The expert advisors at Zinzow Law can assist you with acquiring your American dream. When the time comes that you wish to sell, or wish to raise capital through the sale of additional stock, we are here to help you with that too. Whether you need advice on securities laws, such as blue sky laws, both federal and state, and offering circular or prospectus, or are now on the selling end of a purchase and sale agreement, there are many risks and pitfalls that our expert legal advisors and transactional team members can help you avoid. Sadly, you may find yourself in a deal gone bad, and may need litigation or arbitration assistance. Our legal professionals have over 100 years of combined expertise litigating at the federal, state, and local levels, as well as providing arbitration and mediation dispute resolution services. Zinzow Law regularly assists its clients with:
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Succession Planning, Retirement, and Wealth
Wealth growth, succession, and retirement planning. You have built your American dream and have begun thinking about wealth growth, tax saving, the succession of your organization, and ultimate retirement. Grit and determination got you to where you are, but more is needed to reach this next destination. The lawyers and legal professionals at team Zinzow Law can help. We can introduce you to strategies to grow and preserve your wealth, save taxes, and attract and retain employees. We can open your eyes to possibilities your present advisors have never shared with you. As your wealth grows, we can introduce you to insights and programs which can super charge your retirement savings while saving use taxes, and helping you recruit and retain top talent. Having spent a lifetime building your business, the idea of transitioning it to a family member, or the next generation of ownership, can seem daunting. This succession is best achieved methodically with the assistance of legal counsel, over a period of time. Proper planning can lead to success of the business beyond your retirement, and either a significant buyout price to help fund your retirement, or a guaranteed recurring income stream in retirement. Zinzow Law regularly assists its clients with:
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Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation
Tenacious advocates and consummate counselors. When dispute resolution is necessary, you need effective advocacy and prudent counseling. A business's objective is not to when a fight at any cost and on any timeline, but rather, to define a win within the confines of the business needs. The lawyers at team Zinzow Law have over 100 years of combined litigation, arbitration, and mediation expertise at the most complex levels, including at the federal and state court level. We actively listen to our clients, help them and define their victory and their risks profile, and then develop a milestone action plan to achieve resolution of the dispute, we begin with the end in mind, asking you your timeline for final resolution, and plan all the major activities necessary to get you there in partnership with us. We can also prepare litigation estimates to educate you on anticipated costs and how they will be divided between the various phases of the case. We will advocate tenaciously for you to opposing counsel, the court, or the arbitrator or jury as the case may require, but will never lose sight of privately serving as your counselor, advising you of the probability of a win, the risk of a loss, and everything in between. Between all the fighting, we are here to help you make solid business decisions concerning your dispute. The Company you built has helped to build your American dream, and it is your dream for which team Z fights. Zinzow Law regularly litigates, arbitrates, and mediates disputes concerning:
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Labor, Non-Compete & Employment
Labor advice, employment agreements, and dispute resolution. No business runs without quality labor. Attracting and retaining that labor can be a challenge. The lawyers and legal professionals at team Zinzow Law can help. Whether it is providing little-known and alternative sources of skilled or unskilled labor, or assisting you with developing and deploying robust benefit plans, we can add value to what is already your organization's greatest asset: its people. While people can be and organizations biggest asset, they can also serve as its biggest risk. We can help employers mitigate this risk by recommending certain insurance coverage, assisting companies with employment best practices, developing handbooks and other internal regulations and disciplinary processes, as well as crafting non-compete agreements and other important restrictive covenants. If, despite your best efforts to create a loyal culture, an employee violates his or her duty of loyalty, and employment agreement, or other procedure or law, the experts at team Z can assist you in protecting your company, its rights, and its intellectual property, such as trade secrets, processes, and customer information. We can also assist you in defending labor and employment claims brought against your organization, such as for wage and hour violations, discrimination, or hostile work environment claims. Zinzow Law regularly assists businesses, their owners, and executives with:
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Lending, Foreclosure, Collections & Defense
Financial assistance from financial experts. Most businesses and business owners scale their operations through credit procured from institutional, private, and hard money lenders. The lawyers and legal professionals at team Zinzow Law have experienced with each of these lending relationships, and understand the nuanced differences between each. We have represented both commercial lenders and borrowers since the law firm's inception, and therefore appreciate the legal and practical implications to many different types of loan transactions, including SBA loans, real estate loans, and lines of credit. Whether you are a lender seeking to ensure you have proper loan documentation and security interest to get you timely repaid, or are a commercial borrower seeking the most advantageous loan transaction and repayment terms available, we are here to help. When times get tough, even the best businesses can falter. Zinzow Law’s lawyers have over 100 years of combined legal experience, including in the presentation and defense of claims brought in litigation or arbitration. We can prosecute payment claims, foreclose security interests, and otherwise pursue all collection remedies available under applicable contract documents and the law, or even defend against such efforts and help to reorganize structured debt. Zinzow Law regularly assists businesses, their owners, and executives with:
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Real Estate Transactions & Litigation
Helping you get the most out of dirt. Real estate can be the cornerstone of an organization’s growth. Whether you are acquiring land for an appropriately sized headquarters, adding a new production yard or facility, developing a community, or selling something your company already owns for a profit, the lawyers and legal professionals at Zinzow Law are here to help. We regularly assists businesses, the owners, and executives with real estate transactions and litigation. Read more about the services we provide here [should link them to the main Real Estate page], and call the experts at Zinzow Law for your initial strategy session.
Tax Advice & Litigation
Taking Uncle Sam’s hand out of your pocket. Building a business is not easy, and writing big checks to federal or state government doesn't make it any easier. The Internal Revenue Code, its regulations, advisories, and ensuing judicial opinions are complex, and are not designed to be user-friendly. Businesses, their owners, and executives can benefit from the expert tax professionals at team Zinzow Law. Whether you are speaking to our senior trial lawyer and former Department of Justice tax prosecutor, or merely seek guidance on how to minimize your company's tax burdens, we are here to help. Zinzow Law regularly assists businesses, their owners, and executives with:
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Real Estate
Closings
Purchase and Sale Contracts
Lending & Foreclosure
Land Use, Easements, and Boundary Disputes
Cooperatives, Condominiums, and Homeowners’ Associations
Leasing & Evictions
Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation
Tax Advice & Litigation
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The forgoing is intended for general education purposes only, and is not intended as legal or other advice or given for the purpose of seeking legal employment.
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