Business Tax

Our Silicon Valley attorneys provide significant business tax advice to our clients respecting key business, corporate, and IP-related events.

On company formation, our lawyers help with tax planning relating to choice of entity and other start-up choices:

• corporation versus LLC
• Subchapter S versus Subchapter C
• “cheap stock” to minimize tax
• founders’ restricted stock tax issues
• incorporating low-basis business
• partnership formations
• LLC formations
• joint venture formations

Our lawyers provide business tax advice concerning equity incentives and executive compensation:

• incentive stock options (ISOs)
• non-qualified stock options (NSOs)
• restricted stock grants
• Section 83(b) elections

We provide tax advice concerning funding events, how to structure such events to avoid or minimize tax problems, and how these affect stock pricing.

We provide tax advice concerning redemptions, spin-offs, and like events.

We provide tax advice on acquisitions and dispositions of businesses and business interests, including stock and asset purchases and sales and taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions.

We have an excellent working knowledge of tax rules affecting key business events. We refer out highly specialized issues.

For a discussion of 83(b) elections, see the related faq on What is an 83(b) election and how does it work in practice?" in the FAQ - Startup Business section.