We help clients establish and structure their businesses by selecting the most suitable entity, preparing necessary documentation, and ensuring compliance with legal and tax requirements. From business formation to transactions, contracts, and operational guidance, we provide comprehensive legal support for startups, corporations, partnerships, and LLCs.
We assist our clients in determining the most appropriate form of business entity, based upon the type of business conducted, the location of the business, and the tax consequences of each; and then prepare the documentation necessary to establish the business. The forms of business entities that we prepare include; Small Business and “C” Corporations, General and Limited Partnerships, Limited Liability Companies, and Partnerships. We also review corporate documentation and assist in updating minute books. Some of the documentation which we prepare includes; Articles of Incorporation and Organization, Bylaws, Organizational Minutes, Subscription Agreements, Investment Letter Agreements and Share Certificates, Shareholders’ Agreements, and Operating Agreements. We assist our clients in purchasing existing businesses, in selling their own, and in engaging in capital and other asset distributions, recapitalization, and business liquidations. Finally, we guide our clients through day-to-day operations, by consulting on local, multi-state, and international sales, use, capital gains and income tax issues; and preparing, editing and negotiating Buy-Sell, Stock Purchase, Cross-Purchase, Joint Venture, Employer, Lease, Distributor, Supplier and other Funded and Non-Funded Contracts and Agreements.
Attorneys in Charge
Managing Attorney
Ifang A. Akofu
Ifang is a highly motivated attorney with a good knowledge of multi-state business regulations, corporate compliance, and business transactions. He is also skilled in drafting and negotiating commercial and business-related documents for sophisticated corporate transactions, including private placement memoranda and M&A agreements. He has experience in U.S. immigration law, including asylum, employment & family-based immigrant/non-immigrant visas as well as estate planning, guardianship, and personal injury.
Of Counsel
Dalilian Gutierrez
Ms. Gutierez is bilingual with a proficient ability in written and spoken Spanish. Being an immigrant herself, she upholds the American dream and understands the importance of legal support in navigating the immigration system. She has dedicated her life’s work to helping other immigrants obtain legal status so that they are one step closer to that American dream. Ms. Gutierez also has experience in personal injury, family law, and guardianship cases.
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