Practice Areas
I provide legal counsel and negotiation expertise to clients engaged in a variety of corporate and business transactions. I assist clients form new business entities (including thorough analysis of the legal form of entity most appropriate for the clients’ needs), negotiate and prepare shareholder and buy-sell agreements between the owners, employment agreements, partnership agreements, LLC operating agreements, equity incentive plans (e.g., stock option plans), deferred compensation plans, financing transactions, merger and other corporate reorganization agreements, equity and asset acquisitions, and agreements for the sale or other disposition of all or part of the client’s equity interest in their company. My background in both corporate and tax law gives me a unique ability to advise clients on business transactions from a broad perspective from the very beginning of the transaction.
TAX CONTROVERSY
I also represent clients in adminstrative proceedings before the IRS, California SBE, FTB and EDD, and City of Los Angeles in tax disputes; prepare and filE ruling requests to the IRS, SBE and FTB, and assist nonprofit entities obtain tax-exempt status.
OUTSIDE GENERAL COUNSEL
I also act as general outside counsel for several mid-market companies and helps them navigate through all of their legal problems, assisting them when the legal issue is within my expertise and helping them select qualified counsel when it is not.
Suite 417
Los Angeles, CA 90064
310-441-2500 T
310-740-0662 C
