Brian A. Lynch

Overview

Brian Lynch is a trusted advisor to small businesses, offering comprehensive legal counsel across a broad spectrum of corporate transactions, business operations, and governance matters. He helps clients navigate every stage of the business lifecycle, from entity formation to exit strategies. Brian specializes in selecting the right business structure—whether C-corporations, S-corporations, LLCs, or non-profits—and drafts key documents such as bylaws, operating agreements, shareholder agreements, and buy/sell agreements.

His expertise extends to business acquisitions and exits, where he guides clients through asset and stock purchase agreements, as well as settlement services. Brian also provides essential support in drafting and reviewing a wide array of commercial contracts, including master service agreements, joint venture agreements, equity incentive plans, phantom stock plans, employee agreements, and various non-disclosure, non-solicit, non-compete agreements, and severance packages.

In the realm of real estate, Brian assists with property acquisitions and dispositions, loan document negotiations, and the drafting and review of commercial leases, employee housing agreements, and related real estate documents such as tenants-in-common agreements and declarations of realty trusts. He also represents lenders, handling loan documentation, title and survey reviews, and title insurance matters.

Brian takes particular satisfaction in helping entrepreneurs and business owners grow their vision, offering strategic legal support for entity formation, corporate governance, contract negotiations, business sales and acquisitions, commercial real estate transactions, and other general business matters.

With experience advising a diverse range of clients across industries—including professional services, food service, construction, real estate development, digital marketing, technology, and sports gaming—Brian brings a deep understanding of the unique challenges facing businesses today.

Representative Matters

Entity Formation, Acquisition and Exit

• Represented a client in the contentious buyout of a $400 million commercial real estate portfolio.
• Advised a client in the sale of a $7 million business involving complex multiple tier ownership structure.
• Guided a client in the $3.4 million buyout of the client’s interest in a family business.
• Structured a non-profit organization for a local municipal policemen’s relief association to allow it to raise more money to aid its members and their families in times of need.

Commercial Real Estate

• Advised a client in the $28 million acquisition of two hotels in greater Boston involving multiple 1031 exchange parties.
• Negotiated a commercial restaurant lease in a large-scale, high-profile redevelopment project in Cambridge.
• Retitled a rental property to shield a client’s personal liability.

Contract Drafting

• Routinely draft and negotiate Operating Agreements, Shareholder Agreements, Buy-Sell Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Non-Compete Agreements, Asset Purchase Agreements, Purchase and Sale Agreements, Master Service Agreements, and Consulting Agreements.
• Draft financing and security documents for seller financed business sales.
• Drafted suite of consulting agreements for a client starting a new consulting agency.

Dispute Resolution

• Negotiated a favorable severance package for a client terminated by an international defense contractor.
• Guided a client through the termination of an Asset Purchase Agreement, retaining the client’s entire earnest money deposit.
• Represented a limited liability company in the contentious business separation of a financial planning firm.