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Business Formation & Tax Structuring Law Firm


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Help With The Ins And Outs


Entrepreneurs have ideas — often, great ideas no one else has had before. But they don’t necessarily know how to safely bring those ideas to market, and that’s why they depend on the business formation attorneys at Freeman Lovell. Starting a business takes courage. It’s a risk. Oftentimes it’s not just your money, but investors’ money that’s on the line as well. You want to be successful. You’ll stand a better chance at achieving that if you retain the services of a business formation lawyer. You are the expert in your business, but you can’t expect to know all the ins and outs of business formation, especially if you have no experience in this area. We help our clients register their business, get a tax ID number, file the necessary permits, and obtain the correct licenses. We also help them decide if it would be most advantageous to operate as a sole proprietorship, partnership, LLC, C-corp, or S-corp.

Business Formation Lawyer For Taxes


An important part of setting up and operating any business is creating sustainable tax structures. This has to be done within the confines of the law to protect the business from violating IRS rules and regulations. A mistake in this area can be costly. Using an experienced business formation attorney is critical. Likewise, however, it can also be costly to set up your tax structure in a way that doesn’t take advantage of all the available deductions. Tax structuring is complex, and the rules change constantly. You want to leverage all available advantages while complying with the ever-changing tax landscape. We also help protect our clients from ownership disputes. We ensure your capitalization table is clean so that all percentages of ownership are clearly spelled out. We regularly update the equity of all owners, founders, and investors in the company.

Tax


Freeman Lovell provides federal, state and international income tax planning for businesses and individuals, and also represents businesses and individuals in audits and other litigation involving the Internal Revenue Service or state and local taxing authorities.


We advise clients with respect to structuring of business entities, ventures and transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and buyouts; compensation arrangements; investment in or formation of real estate funds, Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds, hedge funds and private equity funds; transactions qualifying for the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, the Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit, the New Markets Tax Credit, and tax advantages for investments in Qualified Opportunity Zone; debt modifications and other workouts; like‐kind exchanges; redemptions and spin‐offs; negotiations with the IRS or various state tax authorities on behalf of clients; the formation and structuring of ESOPs; and all manner of tax‐related transactions.


The Firm is highly experienced in advising large and small clients, including individuals; start‐up companies; domestic and international real estate funds, hedge funds and private equity funds; joint ventures; and technology and fintech companies. We take great pride in providing pragmatic, effective solutions that reflect both our vast experience and understanding of tax law and the needs of business. 


We also have considerable experience providing services to many types of tax-exempt organizations. We routinely help clients achieve their nonprofit objectives and counsel clients on selecting and forming the appropriate form of tax-exempt organization as well as securing and maintaining tax-exempt status. Our representation also includes advising a number of other diverse tax-exempt organizations.

Wills, Trusts and Estates


Freeman Lovell attorneys are experienced in all aspects of estate planning and the administration of trusts and estates.  We advise clients on estate planning, preparation of wills and trusts, durable powers of attorney and advance directives for health care, charitable planning, federal and state estate, GST and income taxation, probate, and trust administration, and personal and family asset planning.  In addition, we work on succession planning for closely-held businesses owned by our clients and their families.


Our attorneys are recognized authorities in many areas, including complex estate planning, tax, legal aspects of distributions from qualified plans and IRAs, private family and public foundations supporting organizations and other tax-exempt organizations.  We have created revocable trusts, family partnerships and limited liability companies, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, qualified plan beneficiary designation arrangements and many other planning vehicles.


We provide counsel and assistance on matters such as:

  • Planning and preparation of complex wills and trusts
  • Probate and administration of wills and trusts
  • Planning and structuring of domestic asset protection trusts 
  • Irrevocable trusts and educational trusts funded by parents and grandparents for the benefit of younger family members
  • Life insurance planning with trusts
  • Transfers of closely-held family companies to children and grandchildren
  • Lifetime gifting and sales using limited liability companies and other sophisticated techniques such as GRATS, QPRTS, CRATS, CRUTS and CLATS, IDGTS
  • Family dispute resolution in estates
  • Representing fiduciaries and beneficiaries with regard to the administration of trusts and estates

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