Consulting and Legal Services

Manage Power, Money and Risk

At VBA, for more than 10 years we have consulted on the many business and legal issues facing today's veterinarians. Since Dr. Charlotte Lacroix, VBA's founder and CEO is a veterinarian, she speaks your language, saving the “legal-ese” for other lawyers.

VBA's consultants are business strategists who are experts at:

  • Business Transaction Documents - Preparing, reviewing and negotiating preliminary business transaction documents, such as confidentiality agreements, offer letters, letters of intent, memoranda of understanding and term sheets
  • Establishing Practices - Assisting practice owners in selecting and forming efficient business entities, such as corporations and limited liability companies
  • Partnerships - Structuring, negotiating, documenting and implementing all aspects of veterinary partnerships, including:
    • Associate buy-ins and options
    • Specialty, multi-specialty and general practice governance and management
    • Partner retirement and withdrawals
    • Preparing reviewing and negotiating partnership agreements
  • Purchase / Sale - Structuring, negotiating, documenting and implementing the purchase and sale, merger, spin-off or lease of general, specialty and multi-specialty veterinary practices, including agreements for:
    • Asset and stock purchase and sale
    • Practice merger, spin-off and lease
  • Employment Law - Assisting with all practice employment law issues, including:
    • Preparing and reviewing:
      • Employment, residency and independent contractor's agreements
      • Cease and desist letters
      • Retention agreements and releases
      • Employee manuals
    • Resolving disputes between employers and employees
    • Consulting on non-competition, non solicitation, confidentiality and other restrictive covenants, clauses and related provisions
  • Financing - Preparing, reviewing and negotiating practice financing documents, including:
    • Promissory notes
    • Loan, guarantee, security and subordination agreements relating to the financing of practice purchases and sales
    • Buy-ins and buy-outs
    • Practice facility expansion and construction
  • Lease and Other “Space” Agreements - Preparing, reviewing and negotiating specialty practice “shared leases,” co-tenancy agreements, and other leases and contracts relating to practice space, including real estate options, real estate broker listing agreements and horse stabling agreements
  • Construction and Expansion - Preparing, reviewing and negotiating practice facility construction and expansion agreements and related documents such as project management contracts
  • Client Issues - Whether you are dealing with a client who won't pay you, refuses your advice, or is upset with the services from your hospital we can help prepare client releases and consents and coach you through the dispute.
  • Malpractice - Advising on malpractice cases and state board actions and proceedings
  • Expert Witness / Expert Opinion - Serving as expert witnesses, and rendering expert opinions in connection with litigation and related proceedings, suits and actions.

*Legal services are provided through Dr. Lacroix's law firm for practices in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the two states where she is licensed to practice law.

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Contact Us
Countryside Plaza North
Bldg E, Ste. 1403
361 Route 31
Flemington, NJ 08822
Phone (908) 782-4426