by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 23, 2020 | Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Venture Protection
If you are a business owner, you probably worry about your bottom line, employee retention, and health insurance premiums, but have you also considered what will happen to your business if you are in an accident? What if your business partner gets divorced and...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Sep 17, 2019 | Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business
As a partner or co-owner (private shareholder) of a business, you’ve spent years building a valuable financial interest in your company. You may have considered setting up a buy-sell agreement to ensure your surviving family a smooth sale of your business...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jun 17, 2018 | Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business
More on this topic at our weekly seminar here. In closely held businesses, owners and managers are focused on operations and usually don’t have extensive experience buying and selling companies. However, advanced exit planning allows owners and management to...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Feb 9, 2017 | Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Limitation of Liability, Venture Protection
Aggrieved parties have long been able to sue in federal court for copyright, patent, and trademark violations. Surprisingly, no corresponding private cause of action has existed for trade secret theft. Instead, trade secret cases were the domain of state...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jan 9, 2017 | Asset Protection, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Estate Planning, Income Tax, Tax Planning, Venture Protection
For international investors who want to thrive in the California lifestyle, they face three different issues: immigration status, business investment and tax planning. For these clients, I recommend they consider “Roundtripping”, (i.e., they invest in a CA...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 28, 2016 | Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Financial Mentorship, Venture Protection
(Get your parents into our free 2-hour estate plan design meeting.)
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 24, 2016 | Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Estate Planning, News & Commentary, Venture Protection
Sad to see the NRA succumb to bigotry, or playing to bigotry, in the title of this article. “Big Law” would have been more accurate than “Corporate Lawyers” — there is no need to lump all corporate counsel in with this insanity, any more...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Dec 24, 2016 | Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Estate Planning, Family Protection, Religious Faith, Venture Protection
Merry Christmas: Two-thirds of Democrats (66 percent) said stores or business should greet customers with “Happy Holidays” or “Seasons Greetings” instead of “Merry Christmas” out of respect for people of different faiths. Two-thirds of Republicans (67 percent) said...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Oct 21, 2016 | Asset Protection, Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Estate Planning, Venture Protection
You’re likely familiar with the basics of private equity investing: PE funds invest in private companies and other assets with the aim of later selling their stakes at a profit, typically after five to seven years. The term “private equity” encompasses a wide variety...
by Dave Duringer - Protective Law Corp | Jul 28, 2016 | Business Succession, Buying or Selling a Closely Held Business, Venture Protection
Need help? ExitLegal.com If you want to sell your online business, you’re going to require a strategy. There are a lot of different elements you need to be thinking about, and all of your records need to be up to date and in order. The sale process can be daunting; so...
