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Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney with 41 years experience
Business, IP and Real Estate
Stanford Law School
With 40 years of experience, I am a top-rated Business, Real Estate, intellectual Property and Franchise Law attorney. I aggressively represent clients throughout the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area.
An accomplished lawyer, I am dedicated to providing exceptional service and legal representation. My focus is always on achieving the best possible results as quickly and efficiently as possible. I have received many honors and awards, including an AV Preeminent Rating for the highest levels of skill and integrity.
For more information, visit my website or call to arrange a consultation.
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Isaac Hal Winer
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney with 28 years experience
Free ConsultationBusiness
UCLA School of Law
Isaac H. Winer is an experienced business lawyer and civil litigator who has practiced law throughout California since 1992. Mr. Winer’s practice encompasses a broad array of substantive areas, including civil litigation and ADR across a diverse set of subject matters, business formations, funding and governance, business and technology / IP transactions, real property sales and leases, as well as internet and website-related matters. Mr. Winer’s clients have included public and private companies in a variety of industries including software, hardware, life science, internet, telecom and health care. He has also represented start-ups, founders, serial entrepreneurs, joint...
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Business and IP
Stanford Law School
I am Senior Counsel at Nopar & Associates Attorneys at Law. My practice areas include Business & Commercial Law, Business Purchases & Sales, Business Organizations, Corporate Law, and Intellectual Property Law.
I obtained my B.S. at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. I earned my J.D. at Stanford Law School. I am admitted to practice law in the State of California.
I have extensive experience in a broad range of business law matters. I am dedicated to providing skilled and knowledgeable counsel for your legal needs.
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Business, Arbitration & Mediation and Employment
Cornell Univ
For over thirty years, I have practiced business law and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in Palo Alto, California. I assist businesses with formation and planning; purchases and sales of existing businesses; termination of business entities; commercial leasing matters; and employment matters. My other focus is on mediation and arbitration, where I help clients settle disputes outside of the courtroom. What I enjoy most about being a business law attorney is helping people transform their hobbies and passions into successful businesses. Whether I’m helping someone start a restaurant or a software company, I’m always mindful of the...
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2nd Floor
530 Lytton Avenue
Palo Alto,
CA 94301
Business, International, Securities and Tax
University of Chicago
I have always been interested in European history and languages. I lived in France for four years before returning to the Bay Area to set up my law practice. I often work with people in the Bay Area who have family or assets in France.
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Raymund Robles
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Lawyer with 26 years experience
Business, Criminal, Domestic Violence and Juvenile
UC Hastings COL
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University Law College, Bangalore, India, National Law School of India University Bangalore, India and University Law College, Bangalore, India
Ashitha Bhagwan’s practice focuses on entrepreneurs and their corporate and legal needs. Ms. Bhagwan has worked on the formation, development and financing of emerging growth and early stage companies located in the US and foreign jurisdictions. She regularly counsels on a wide range of corporate issues such as formation, equity structure, employment, general corporate governance, intellectual property protection and commercial transactions.
As part of her cross-border practice, Ms. Bhagwan helps foreign companies enter the US market by advising on optimal structures for US presence, resolving cross-border issues, and advising on intellectual property strategy and foreign direct investment reporting requirements in the...
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Aria Vatankhah
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney with 10 years experience
Business, Immigration and Real Estate
University of California Hastings College of the Law, LSE and University of Westminster
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Business, DUI, Divorce and Family
Santa Clara Univ School of Law
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Business and IP
University of San Diego School of Law
Boris Feldman
Palo Alto, CA Business Law Attorney with 33 years experience
Business and Securities
Yale Law School
Business and Securities
Duke University School of Law
Business and Securities
Stanford Law School
Business and Securities
Harvard Law School
Business and Employment
Harvard Law School
Business and Securities
University of California, Berkeley School of Law and UC Berkeley School of Law
Business and Communications
Stanford Law School
Business, Consumer, IP and Securities
Harvard Law School
Business and Securities
Stanford Law School
Business, Health Care and IP
Santa Clara University School of Law
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Roger Royse
Menlo Park, CA Business Law Attorney with 35 years experience
Free ConsultationBusiness and Tax
New York University School of Law and University of North Dakota School of Law
Roger Royse, the founder of the Royse Law Firm, works with companies ranging from newly formed tech startups to publicly traded multinationals in a variety of industries, including technology, entertainment and new media, sports, real estate and agri-business. Roger regularly advises on complex tax structuring, high stakes business negotiations and large international financial transactions. Practicing business and tax law since 1984, Roger’s background includes work with prominent San Francisco Bay area law firms as well as Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy in New York City. Roger is active in leadership roles with several bar associations, including the following: ...
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John C. Martin
Menlo Park, CA Business Law Lawyer with 11 years experience
Business, Estate Planning, Probate and Tax
Boston College Law School
Attorney John Martin advises individuals, families, and businesses in the areas of legacy planning, wealth preservation, estate & business succession planning, and estate administration.
Our law firm focuses exclusively on legacy planning, wealth preservation, estate and business succession planning, and estate administration. Our trust and estate planning services enable clients to protect their spouse's or child's s inheritance from creditors and predators, maximize control over their assets during their lifetime, benefit charities, and effectively transition their business to the next generation. Through an ongoing client maintenance program, we provide peace of mind that a client's goals will not...
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Harry Boadwee
Los Altos, CA Business Law Lawyer with 32 years experience
Business and IP
Columbia Univ School of Law
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UCLA School of Law
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Business, Appeals, Environmental and IP
Vermont Law School and Vermont Law School
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Business, Arbitration & Mediation, Estate Planning and Family
UC Hastings COL
The Best Lawyers in America 2003-present; Best Lawyers 2017 Family Law “Lawyer of the Year” for San Jose metropolitan area; National Academy of Family Law Attorneys “2016 Nationally Top 10 Attorney Award” for State of California; Best Law Firms – U.S. News and World Report 2014-present; Northern California Super Lawyers 2003-present; Daily News, Readers’ Choice Award “Best Lawyers Office” 2016; Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers; Strathmore’s Who’s Who; National Registry of Who’s Who (life member); Author “Family Law ADR and Other Techniques” (Aspatore, “Inside the Minds – California Family Law Strategies,” 2009); Adjunct Professor, Business Law, Menlo College, 1995-2009,...
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Business, Employment and Insurance Claims
UC Berkeley School of Law Boalt Hall
I have extensive experience in employment, business, insurance and real estate litigation. In 1997, I graduated Order of the Coif (top 10%) from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. I clerked for the Honorable Maxine M. Chesney of the United States District Court, Northern District of California in 1999 and the Honorable Robert Boochever of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2001. I practiced insurance law as an associate with Sonnenshein Nath & Rosenthal and employment law as an associate at Heller Ehrman. I focused on real estate litigation while working...
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Business and Real Estate
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Stephen Benda
Menlo Park, CA Business Law Attorney with 33 years experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Bankruptcy, Collections and Tax
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(800) 372-9983
800 W. El Camino Real
Suite 180
Mountain View,
CA 94040
Business, Divorce and Real Estate
Stanford University
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Aki Yoshikawa
Mountain View, CA Business Law Lawyer with 26 years experience
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy
Mountain View,
CA 94043
Business
Stanford Univ Law School
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(650) 701-7617
800 West El Camino Real
Suite 180
Mountain View,
CA 94040
Business
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Sunnyvale, CA Business Law Lawyer with 15 years experience
Business, Collections, Construction and Real Estate
Santa Clara University School of Law
Eric Hartnett possesses an impressive real estate and business law background. He is a former partner at a preeminent real estate firm in Silicon Valley and has garnered a considerable wealth of experience by working his entire career at small and medium-sized firms. He has represented a wide array of clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies and government entities to individuals and small businesses. Eric's skills and expertise have been recognized through his repeated receipt of Super Lawyers's Northern California Rising Star award.
While the majority of his cases have been venued in the Bay Area (e.g. Santa...
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Michael Danko
Redwood Shores, CA Business Law Attorney with 37 years experience
(650) 453-3600
333 Twin Dolphin Drive
Suite 145
Redwood Shores,
CA 94065
Business, Asbestos, Consumer and Personal Injury
University of Virginia School of Law
Trial lawyer representing those harmed due to the wrongful conduct of others. Catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, aviation, and business torts.
The $14.9 million jury verdict we obtained for our client injured in a plane crash was one of the largest personal injury verdicts obtained in the state of California in 2008. The $20 million settlement we obtained for a client burned in a utility explosion was one of the largest personal injury settlements in the state for 2006.
Other representative results:
$10 million jury verdict for widow of man killed in California helicopter crash (2011);
$2.6 million settlement for a...
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St. Thomas University School of Law
As an attorney, Matthew Grech began his career as a civil litigator. From there Mr. Grech transitioned into estate planning and probate & estate administration. As an estate planning/administration attorney Mr. Grech has assisted numerous clients manage trust and estate administrations from inception to closing, as well as guiding and facilitating the planning process. It was during this time that Mr. Grech realized that a number of his clients’ family members and friends were facing mounting financial troubles in the wake of The Great Recession. It was this realization that motivated Mr. Grech to begin practicing bankruptcy law, which...
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Inna Efimchik
Redwood City, CA Business Law Lawyer with 15 years experience
Business, Health Care and Securities
Inna Efimchik has a corporate and securities practice, focusing on emerging growth companies and venture capital firms. Her practice includes general corporate counseling and securities advising, venture capital financings, debt transactions, corporate partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions. During her practice she has represented companies in a wide range of industries, including software, internet, mobile, life sciences, biotechnology, medical device, communications and clean technology.
Prior to joining Emergence Law Group, Inna Efimchik practiced corporate and securities law in the emerging companies groups at Cooley LLP and, previously, at Heller Ehrman Venture Law Group.
In 2005, Inna Efimchik earned a J.D. from University...
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Daniel Janjua
Santa Clara, CA Business Law Attorney with 8 years experience
Business, Employment, IP and Personal Injury
Daniel Janjua is an experienced multi-lingual attorney focused on corporate law, contract negotiation, corporate policy and compliance, regulatory response and compliance and electronic discovery law. He is eager to employ cutting-edge tools and technology to reduce litigation cost and compliance expenditure. He has over 10 years of dedicated focus within the technology industry with excellent research, writing, communication and presentation skills.
Daniel Janjua is licensed to practice law in California.
Specialties:
1- Corporate policy and compliance, including, regulatory compliance.
2- Corporate Law.
3- Internet Laws, Anti-spam laws.
4- Corporate Legal Operations, HR, Customer relations.
5- Contract Negotiation, Drafting and Management.
6- Conduct Electronic Discovery.
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Business and IP
Santa Clara University School of Law
I am a startup business lawyer and litigator practicing in Silicon Valley as head of a 4-lawyer boutique firm, George Grellas & Associates.
We are business lawyers with a specialty in early-stage tech startups. Since 1984, we have helped small to medium-sized businesses, startups, entrepreneurs, and executives - several thousand in all. We help form companies - fund them - sell or merge or acquire them - sell their assets - do their corporate work, employment work, contracts, leases, and standard terms - licensing, trademark, and IP work - founder and equity incentive structures - commercial deals of all types. We...
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Free ConsultationBusiness, Construction and Real Estate
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Melissa Wurster’s practice focuses primarily on complex real estate, insurance and business litigation. Ms. Wurster has also handled numerous appellate matters. Her real estate litigation practice includes representing subcontractors and material suppliers in construction defect actions as well as clients in commercial lease disputes, quiet title actions, land use matters and eminent domain. Her business litigation practice includes corporate and partnership disputes, breach of contract and unfair business practices. Ms. Wurster has also litigated insurance coverage and bad faith actions, successfully representing clients in trial and appellate courts throughout California and in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.
Ms. Wurster was...
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Free ConsultationBusiness, Construction, Insurance Defense and Real Estate
Santa Clara University School of Law
Deirdre Digrande is a litigation attorney with 15 years of experience in a wide breadth of practice areas including commercial disputes, intellectual property, real estate and construction law. In her construction practice, Ms. Digrande has represented property owners, developers, general contractors and subcontractor cross-defendants. Ms. Digrande obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of California at Berkeley and her J.D. at Santa Clara University School of Law. Ms. Digrande has worked in some of the most prominent San Francisco law firms; most recently, the Pittsburgh-based law firm of K&L Gates, LLP.
Need legal help with a business law matter?
Business laws include all municipal, state, and federal laws that regulate businesses and commerce. Some industries, such as finance, face specific laws and regulations that apply to those in the field. Businesses of all types also must conform to many regulations that apply across the board, such as environmental regulations and advertising laws.
A business lawyer can help you address the myriad legal issues that arise when you are starting a new venture, operating an established company, or winding up or selling a business.
Business lawyers handle a broad spectrum of legal issues that confront companies. For new ventures, a business lawyer can help with business formation decisions, including selecting the proper business form, such a partnership, LLC or corporation, or addressing financial compliance issues when raising capital. In addition, business lawyers can offer advice when reviewing leases, purchase agreements, and other types of contracts. Other issues covered in this practice area include employee compensation and benefits, building relationships with independent contractors and other entities, and compliance with relevant advertising regulations.
While most business lawyers deal in transactional work (contracts and forms), some also litigate business disputes that arise from transactional work. Business litigation attorneys may handle issues such as breach of contract claims, consumer class action lawsuits, and wrongful termination claims.
Business judgment rule:
a presumption that directors making a business decision, not involving self-interest, act on an informed basis, in good faith and in the honest belief that their actions are in the corporation's best interest.
Pierce the veil:
A court no longer affords a shareholder of a corporation the protection of limited liability when the corporation has neglected corporate formalities and intermingled assets between the shareholder and the corporation.
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