Business Deals and Tax Consequences
Experienced Business Transactions Lawyer in Austin, Texas
From 30 years of negotiating business transactions, I work to ensure that the deal is consummated smoothly, that the terms will help avoid future disputes and that the transaction structure minimizes taxation.
The law office of John McDuff in Austin represents small and mid-sized business in Travis County and Central Texas. I have engineered large, sophisticated transactions involving tens of millions of dollars, and every type of complex deal: three-party transactions, international money center transactions, mergers, split-offs and spin-offs.
I bring both business sense and tax law acumen as a licensed CPA who was with Price Waterhouse. Contact me at 512.457.1177 to strategize the terms of your business contracts.
My transaction experience includes the following matters, which have been negotiated, papered, and closed, with appropriate tax planning:
- Complex business start-ups
- Financings
- Stock transactions and private offerings
- Shareholder agreements
- Buy-sell agreements
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Commercial transactions (goods and services)
- Borrowing and lending
- Debt restructuring
- Venture funding
- Intellectual property rights
- Business or partnership dissolution
- Commercial real estate
- Construction contracts
Striking a Good Deal
If you have a lot at stake, your lawyer should have experience in litigation, so that he can anticipate the misunderstandings, problems, disputes and lawsuits that might happen down the road. Then the terms of the transaction documents produce safety. Another key to negotiating terms of the transaction is knowing when to be cooperative and when to be confrontational. I try to gauge where the balance of power is between the parties.
The other crucial element is to paper the transaction thoroughly. My business contracts are written without legalese. But they are not necessarily short. To protect your business, I use as many pages as necessary to address all the issues. Think of the transaction documents as an insurance policy.
You need an attorney who does his homework, looks at the big picture and then attends to the important details of business contracts. Call my Austin office at 512.457.1177 or make arrangements online.
