A full-service business practice,
emphasizing small business start-ups,
professional practice sales and transitions,
corporate and business law and related tax issues,
real property, and institutional debt collection.
Prompt and personalized service guaranteed.
MATTERS HANDLED BY THIS OFFICE INCLUDE:
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
Practice sales and transitions (dental, medical, veterinary) and related tax allocations; incorporations and corporate maintenance; expense sharing, shareholder, employment and association agreements; commercial and private lending; collections; and medical and dental office leases.
CORPORATE & BUSINESS LAW
Corporate and limited liability company formations, maintenance and securities registration exemptions; business sales; buyout, employment and independent contractor agreements; consumer and commercial collections; loan, lease, distribution, marketing, licensing, non-disclosure and other customer and supplier contracts; and pre-trial litigation, counseling and resolution of various civil law matters.
REAL PROPERTY LAW
Real property leases, sales, options and loans; road and utility system maintenance agreements, CC&Rs and grants of easements; and partnership and limited liability company formations.
USC Law School, J.D., 1984 Top 20% Graduate Dartmouth College, A.B., 1981 Honors Program in Mathematics Golf Team
LICENSED
California Bar, 1984 Texas Bar, 2000 Tennessee Bar, 2007 United States Tax Court, 1989 California Broker License, 1998
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
California Bar Association Texas Bar Association Tennessee Bar Association
Santa Barbara County Bar Association Medical Legal Committee (Chair 1993-1997)
REFERENCES
California Practice Sales, Inc. Ken Rubin Practice Sales, Inc. Lee Skarin and Associates, Inc. Practice Transition Partners, Inc. Pacific Capital Bancorp, N.A. Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Berti Spechler Sarmiento McKay and Co.
and many individual dentists, corporations, and other small businesses