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Warren Kalyan

warrenkalyan.com

Warren Kalyan is a business law firm committed to empowering our clients' success through value driven partnership. We don't just advise. We execute, from formation through exit. Established in 1980, Warren Kalyan has built a well established presence in Texas for over four decades and in New York for close to two decades. We are a full service business law firm committed to empowering our clients' success through value driven partnership. We don't just advise. We execute, from formation to exit. We help our clients think through issues, synthesize strategies, and stand alongside them as a true legal and business partner, with a strategy rooted in value, efficiency, and effectiveness. We represent companies across a wide range of industries, with particular depth in the highly active hospitality and multifamily real estate sectors. Our work spans the transactional, operational, and litigation matters that drive client success, including entity formation and governance, mergers and acquisitions, commercial real estate, regulatory permitting, commercial and corporate transactions, capital raising, employment, intellectual property, and the day to day legal questions that arise in active operations. Our SMB/LMM mergers and acquisitions practice is a particular area of strength, where we guide buyers and sellers through letters of intent, asset and equity purchase agreements, SBA and conventional financing, diligence, closing, and post closing integration. We also run a high volume hospitality and liquor licensing practice across Texas and New York, shepherding restaurants, bars, hotels, and other on premises operators through original applications, transfers, change of officer filings, and the full regulatory life cycle. We handle the full suite of issues faced by owners, operators, developers, suppliers, and service providers. When things get rocky, our disputes practice steps in with demand letters, injunctive relief, arbitration, and trial ready advocacy. Business litigation and partnership disputes are a core area of expertise, covering business divorces, member and shareholder disputes, breach of fiduciary duty claims, governance fights, and contract claims, where we focus on protecting our clients' equity, control, and economic interests. We also operate a high volume residential and commercial landlord/tenant litigation and eviction platform purpose built for the multifamily industry, handling high cadence dockets with the same precision and discipline we bring to our bet the company matters. Across every practice area, we bring transactional insight and litigation strength together under one integrated firm. By combining industry fluency with broad business law capabilities, we serve as a strategic partner to companies at every stage of their life cycle, from formation through exit. Whether structuring a new entity, closing an acquisition, navigating regulatory licensing, resolving a partnership dispute, or executing a sale, we move swiftly, efficiently, and effectively, so our clients can stay focused on running and growing their businesses while we handle the legal machinery behind their decisions. We leverage innovative technology and digital enabled processes to not only meet the current demands of the legal field but also set new standards for what is possible. Pairing in depth technical knowledge with unrelenting advocacy and well established relationships, we deliver the creative, strategic, and value driven representation our clients need to succeed. Our outstanding record of providing clients with prompt, personalized service comes, first and foremost, from the expertise and commitment of our entire team. We believe that the easiest way is not necessarily the best, and we place each client’s success at the forefront of every action plan. our services Business Disputes and Litigation SMB/LMM M&A Advisory Multifamily Housing Advisory and Landlord and Tenant Litigation (Residential and Commercial) Liquor Licensing and ABC Regulatory Matters Corporate Planning and Structuring Transaction Counseling and Contract Drafting/Enforcement General Counsel Advisory Leases and Real Estate Transactions Administrative and Regulatory Affairs (State, County and Municipal) Land Use, Zoning and Entitlements Employment Practices Housing Discrimination Defense Franchising (FDD and compliance matters) Intellectual Property and Entertainment Industry Matters From structuring a capital raise for a restaurant group, to litigating a complex conduct-based eviction case for a global property management company, to assisting with the exchange of equity interests between partners going through a business divorce, we are prepared to assist with a wide variety of legal matters. The focus of our services can be as broad or as narrow as a client needs requires. We combine well established expertise with an enthusiastic, experienced and talented team of attorneys and support staff.

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