BUSINESS AND CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS
We advise our clients on a wide array of business issues and decisions from incubation through the development stage and into full-scale operations. We organize business entities and structure and document business mergers, combinations and strategic alliances. We assist in business negotiations and dispute resolutions, and document business transactions. The firm also serves in an "outside general counsel" capacity to small and medium-size businesses.
- Incorporations, partnerships, joint ventures and limited liability companies
- Venture capital formation for start-up and development stage companies
- Pre- IPO structuring
- Business purchase and sale agreements
- Mergers and strategic alliances
- Equipment leases
- Shareholder and buy/sell agreements
- Employment and independent contractor agreements
- Domestic contracts of all types
- International contracts of all types
- Counseling on shareholder, officer and director right and obligations
- Serving as counsel to profit and non-profit boards of directors
REAL ESTATE
We provide a full range of legal services necessary for the planning, acquisition, financing, development, leasing and sale of residential, commercial and industrial real estate.
- Purchase and sale agreements and closing documents
- Residential, commercial and industrial leases (representing both landlords and tenants)
- Loan documents for third party and seller financing (representing both lender and borrower)
- Zoning, land use and title claim issues
- Contractor and subcontractor agreements and disputes (including mechanic lien issues)
- Formation of limited and general partnerships and joint ventures for acquisition and financing of commercial real estate projects
- Tax deferred exchanges
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The firm structures and documents domestic and international technology transfers and advises on general intellectual property matters. We also file and prosecute trademark and service mark applications with the Patent and Trademark Office and State of California.
- Trademark and service mark filings and prosecutions;
- Patent, trademark, software and know-how licenses and assignments;
- Trade secret protection
- Employment issues related to intellectual property rights
- Work-for-hire agreements
- Strategic alliances and joint development agreements
- Universal license agreements
- Proprietary rights protection
- Purchase and sale of intellectual property rights
ESTATE PLANNING, ADMINISTRATION AND LITIGATION
The firm provides complete estate planning and administration services for individuals and families. Our services include free initial consultations and evaluations of the client's estate; a recommended plan designed to preserve and protect family assets and to reduce estate, gift, income and generation-skipping taxes; and the drafting of carefully tailored documents to implement the adopted plan. We also serve as counsel to trustees and probate estates and provide asset protection planning services. We also handle probate and trust litigation matters, including will and trust contests.
- Trusts for non-U.S. residents
- Revocable trusts and wills
- Irrevocable insurance trusts
- Charitable remainder trusts
- Qualified personal residence trusts
- Grantor-retained income and annuity trusts
- Transfers of family real estate and other illiquid assets
- Transfer of business interests
- Business succession planning
- Trust and estate administration
- Guardianships and conservatorships
- Protection of inheritances of children and grandchildren
ASSET PROTECTION
The firm develops asset protection plans for clients who are concerned about future creditor claims. Persons in high risk ventures or litigious professions are suitable candidates for such a plan. An asset protection plan is a preventative measure that must ordinarily be in place before any claim is made if it is to serve its purpose. The firm uses the most advanced techniques and structures to protect a client's assets, privacy and confidentiality.
- Domestic and foreign corporations Limited liability companies
- Family limited partnerships
- Domestic revocable and irrevocable trusts
- Offshore asset protection trusts
BUSINESS AND PERSONAL LITIGATION
Although the firm attempts to negotiate a favorable settlement as a first option, some disputes simply cannot be resolved without resort to the court or other tribunal. We vigorously enforce and defend our clients' rights and interests with a wide array of litigation services for court, administrative and arbitration proceedings.
- Contract disputes
- Unfair competition and business practices
- Real estate disputes
- Intellectual property disputes
- Wrongful termination of employment
- Partnership and joint venture disputes
- Shareholder and corporate disputes
- Estate and probate disputes
- Fraud, negligence and other non-contractual claims
- Arbitration, mediation and mini-trials
IMMIGRATION
The firm provides a variety of types of U.S. immigration services in immigrant categories and business related categories. We represent corporate clients who are multi-national corporations as well as small venture business who have just started business in the United States with their various business needs. We also represent individual clients who have other non-business related U.S. Immigration needs, such as obtaining U.S. permanent residence (“Green Card”) and U.S. citizenship through family relationship. We have many years of experience working closely with the Asian community, especially Japanese corporate communities.
- Temporary Work Visas and Intra-company Transferee (L) visas
- Investors (E) visas
- Entertainers / Sports Professionals (O/P) visas
- Professionals (H-IB) visas
- Exchange Visitors (J) visas
- Permanent Residence (Green Card)
- Relinquishment of permanent residence
- Immigration for Multinational executives and managers
- Employment related petitions
- Labor certifications
- Diversity ("Lottery") cases
- Family related petitions
- Investors EB-5 Immigration
- U.S. Citizenship
