Business Formation & Small Business Lawyer in Tennessee
Hunter Fede holds both a law degree and an MBA, and spent six years in corporate banking before opening the practice. The result is business counsel that accounts for how the entity will actually operate, borrow, and grow — not just how it files.
The practice serves owner-operated companies across Middle Tennessee: the LLC formed right the first time, the operating agreement that prevents the partner dispute, and a lawyer who picks up the phone when something comes up.
Entity choice, Tennessee filings, EIN, and the documents that make the liability shield real.
Ownership, decision-making, and exits settled on paper while everyone still gets along.
What happens when a partner leaves, retires, divorces, or dies — decided in advance.
Purchase agreements, due diligence, and closings for Main Street transactions.
Offer letters, contractor agreements, vendor terms — the paperwork of actually operating.
A lawyer who already knows your business, available when questions come up — priced for small-company overhead.
Six years in banking means your formation documents anticipate what a lender will ask for when you're ready to borrow.
Legal risk gets weighed against cost, cash flow, and what the business can actually absorb.
The person who forms your entity is the person you call two years later about the lease.
Once there's real revenue or real risk, usually yes — it separates business liability from your house and savings. A short call settles it.
The filing, maybe. What's usually missing is the operating agreement and formalities that make the liability shield hold up.
Flat-fee packages, quoted before any work begins — including filings and the governance documents most online services skip.
Starting a business in Tennessee: what actually matters
Most Tennessee businesses start the same way: someone good at a trade decides to work for themselves, files an LLC online in twenty minutes, and gets back to work. The filing is the easy part. What that twenty minutes doesn't cover is everything the entity is supposed to do for you — and most of it depends on documents the online services never mention.
The liability shield only works if you maintain it
An LLC separates business debts from your personal assets — in principle. In practice, courts can disregard an entity that has no operating agreement, mixes personal and business funds, or ignores its own formalities. Formation done properly includes the governance documents and the habits that make the shield hold when it's actually tested.
Partners need paper, even when they're family
The most expensive disputes in small business aren't with customers — they're between owners. Who decides, who gets paid what, and what happens when someone wants out are questions best answered in an operating agreement written while everyone still agrees. Answering them later, through lawyers on both sides, costs many times more.
Think about the bank before you need the bank
Most growing businesses eventually borrow. Having spent six years on the lending side, Hunter structures formation documents with that day in mind — clean ownership records, proper resolutions, and books a lender can read. It's the difference between a loan that closes in weeks and one that stalls in underwriting.
Build it on a proper foundation.
Describe the business — the first conversation is free.
