Category: Corporate and Business Law

By: Tamara Pow Although I do not practice estate planning law, as a limited liability company lawyer (“LLC lawyer”) in San Jose, I have worked with estate planning attorneys to form many LLCs for families that want to include them in their estate plan....

As a business attorney with a Silicon Valley practice, I create a lot of contracts for many different kinds of companies. It never gets boring! One of the issues we sometimes worry about is whether there are any other parties that might have rights...

  By: Tamara Pow As a real estate attorney in Silicon Valley, I represent a lot of real estate investors that hold their properties in LLCs. One of the biggest and most expensive mistakes LLC members can make when transferring property to or from...

By: Robert Hawn As a business attorney practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area working with start-up companies , I often represent companies which are pursuing market opportunities in the European Community. Many of these companies, especially “software as a service” companies, offer apps...

By: Serge Filatov I’ve written previously about sole proprietorships and general partnerships as forms of businesses for the small business owner here in San Jose and Silicon Valley. However, as mentioned before, those forms of businesses are not ideal because they expose the business...

By: Tamara Pow IRS Announces 2016 Standard Mileage Reimbursement Rates The Internal Revenue Service has issued the 2016 optional standard mileage rates ( IR-2015-137, Dec. 17, 2015 ): As of January 1, 2016, the rates for the use of a car, van, pickup or...