At Zent Law Group (ZLG) our services philosophy is solution-oriented and grounded in a pro-active commitment to finding, developing and creating implementation strategies for solutions that preserve our clients' legal interests while promoting their business objectives. As with any successful journey, adequate preparation for contingencies and an understanding of the landscape, climate and local resources is essential. Similarly, we believe that a solid grasp of the context which defines your business and industry is essential to providing the best possible solutions and the highest quality of legal services. For that reason, we go to great lengths to understand our clients' unique businesses, corporate philosophies and objectives.

We strongly believe that our role as business lawyers involves more than simply preparing a document or delivering answers to legal questions. In our practice, we strive to offer maximum value to our clients by providing solutions that combine legal precision with pragmatic ingenuity. Whether our work involves legal drafting, evaluation and advising, strategic business counseling or transaction structuring and negotiation, our objective is to deliver premium legal services that best suit your specific needs and cost-management concerns. As you maneuver through the legalities of a dynamic business landscape, allow us to assist you in that process.

Zent Law Group provides a wide range of services under the following core areas of practice.

Zent Law group is uniquely suited to provide full-service legal representation to professionals and companies regarding a wide variety of general business matters and transactions. Our services in this area involve advising on legal issues, providing strategic counseling, and structuring, drafting, evaluating, negotiating and managing general business contracts in a variety of contexts. In this practice, our services include corporate, partnership and tax strategies and structures, real estate and commercial law and transactions. We are customarily requested to provide services relating to agreements such as those involving mergers and acquisitions, complex development projects, dispositions of assets, joint ventures, financing transactions, agreements with contractors, vendors, facilities providers, outsourcing, leasing or co-location arrangements, and many other agreements ancillary to such matters. On occasion, we are also called upon to advise clients in connection with the renegotiation and/or termination of certain preexisting business agreements, or the resolution of business disputes, whether through mediation, arbitration or litigation.

Corporate Law
      Whether our clients are newly-formed enterprises or established businesses seeking to transform, we provide comprehensive assistance at every stage of the development and growth process. Our attorneys possess decades of experience with the legal issues pertaining to the formation and operation of corporate entities, general and limited partnerships, family limited partnerships, joint ventures and other entities. For instance, we advise clients who are embarking on a new business venture about such matters as the suitable legal entity under which their business should be formed, the protection of their trade secrets, tax issues, negotiating facilities and ground leases for business use, and the hiring of new employees. Our Corporate services, however, specifically exclude complex securities matters.

Outsourcing
We have extensive expertise with outsourcing transactions in any service category and, particularly in dealing with outsourcing to such regions as China, India, Japan, Mexico and Eastern Europe. Our proven track record in this arena has made the firm a favored choice by corporate clients as they execute upon outsourcing initiatives.

Our broad transactional expertise offered under this practice allows us to provide a combination of precise legal counseling, technical drafting, strategic business advising, and negotiation tactics at all stages of a project or transaction. However, since we believe that our role as business lawyers does not automatically end with closure of a transaction, we offer ongoing legal advice to our clients about their business and the implementation or enforcement of their transactions.

      Commercial Transactions
      Our practice in this area focuses upon the laws governing commercial transactions and the impact which these laws have in a given business setting. In particular, our work in this area frequently involves such matters as real estate leasing, services arrangements, procurement and sales transactions. With our specialized experience in this area, we advise our clients as to risks, remedies and the strategic allocation of risk in a given transaction.

      Technology
      We have extensive experience with representing a wide variety of technology clients in areas such as, computer hardware and software, semiconductors, wireless devices, Internet or online services, networking, data encryption, and interactive or digital media. We advise clients on a broad range of legal and business issues raised by the use of the particular technologies involved in their business. In this practice, we also structure, draft, evaluate and negotiate a full range of routine and complex technology transactions for our clients, including matters related to: strategic alliances, licensing, software development, source code escrow, original equipment manufacturing and distribution, network or Internet services providers, resellers, technology transfers, outsourcing, online or co-marketing, online subscription-based services, and so forth.

      Trade Secrets and Intellectual Property
      Our experience with representing high technology companies has enabled us to develop expertise in protecting intellectual property and trade secrets in the context of the employer-employee relationship. Such assistance may involve protecting a corporate client’s information upon the hiring or departure of key employees, or drafting proprietary information agreements. Our Intellectual Property practice, however, excludes patent prosecution and patent enforcement.

     Media and Entertainment
     Our specialized expertise in the media, music and entertainment industries allows us to represent a variety of clients, ranging from film or television production and distribution companies, individual writers, directors or composers, to music and print publishing houses. We have considerable experience with structuring, drafting and negotiating various agreements for clients in this area, including those involving individual rights of privacy and publicity, or the creation, sale or licensing of content for entertainment and media productions. As a result, we offer both technical and practical advice with all aspects of media transactions and the trade or industry-related issues that may arise. Lastly, our technology expertise enables us to offer additional services for projects or transactions involving the convergence of entertainment content and advanced digital media technologies, such as online entertainment, concerts and gaming.

     Privacy
     The legal and regulatory landscape regarding privacy and data protection issues has become increasingly complex over the last few decades with the adoption of such laws as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the privacy provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Electronic Communication Privacy Act. As with our consumer products practice, our focus in this area involves advising our clients on a variety of privacy issues in the transactional context. We advise clients on the applicable privacy laws affecting their industry and their compliance obligations under those laws. Additionally, we assist in such matters as developing and implementing privacy policies and/or training programs, and ensuring that privacy concerns are properly addressed in documents for transactions where such issues might arise. With the ever-changing statutory and policy developments in the privacy area, this unique services offering is of increasing importance to our business clients.

Our intellectual property registration and licensing practice involves counseling clients on a full range of legal protection issues and requirements arising under copyright and trademark laws, excluding patent. We provide advice relevant to all types of copyrighted materials as well as matters related to trademark practice claims, including those involving trademarks, service marks, trade dress, etc. In addition to our expertise with computer software and multimedia products, we also have experience with copyrightable material in the entertainment and digital media industries. We educate and assist our clients in implementing trade secret protection plans in their business and policies or guidelines designed to protect their intellectual property assets. In our licensing arm of this practice, we provide thorough legal and strategic advice to our clients about the licensing of protected intellectual property assets, including the drafting and negotiation of various types of licenses and the monitoring of licensing arrangements. Lastly, our significant experience in this area allows us to comprehensively advise clients of relevant intellectual property ownership or licensing considerations in other contexts (e.g., hiring of new employees, etc.) or areas of their business.