When you're in the foxhole, surrounded by fierce competition, you want someone by your side who's been there. As an attorney dedicated to serving businesses and business owners, I help businesses and their owners become battle ready by counseling in a wide variety of matters which businesses and their owners face: from reviewing contracts and drafting agreements to regulatory compliance, mergers & acquisitions (representing buyers and sellers), employment law (e.g. handbooks, EEOC representation), intellectual property (e.g. copyright, trademark, trade secret), tax (e.g. federal, state, local), and international trade (e.g. China, Israel).
As your outsourced general counsel, I help solve your business problems, a few recent matters having been:
A) Work Representing Sellers
1. Helping a business owner sell his multi-million dollar electrical services business.
2. Counseling a business owner through selling his Painting with a Twist Franchise.
3. Representing a business owner sell his custom drilling rig.
B) Work for Buyers
1. Represented a Buyer in a Stock Purchase of an automotive company.
2. Assisted one member purchase the membership interest of another.
C) Tax Exempt Work
1. Establishing a 501(c)(3) for equine therapy.
2. Counseling a business in creation of a Private Operating Foundation.
D) Establishing Businesses
1. Established several LLCs and corporations.
E) Compliance Work
1. Assisting a jeweler with their Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) program and independent auditing.
2. Helping taxpayers become compliant after not filing tax returns for several years.
3. Wrote an employee handbook focusing on defenses to EEOC claims.
4. Represented taxpayer in defending an innocent spouse claim.
F) Controversy Work
1. Representing a business owner in a small claims court mediation.
2. Advised insurance companies to prevent former employees taking clients and employees.
Practice areas
Purchase and Sale of Businesses Small Claims and Contract issues Contract Review
7 years, 10 cases
LLC, Delaware and Florida FL Corporation FL Non Profit, 501(c)(3) Holding Companies Foreign companies.
7 years, 10 cases
collection and tax controversy collection due process collection appeals trust fund recovery penalties penalty abatements final demand protest liens offers-in-compromise alter-ego and nominee assessments levies substitutes for returns installment agreements summons and seizures of property Garnishments Dependency Exemptions Innocent Spouse
12 years, 900 cases
Languages spoken
English, Spanish
Bay Area Corporate Counsel
4830 West Kennedy Boulevard, Ste 600
Tampa, FL, 33609
State | Status | Acquired | Updated |
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FL | Member in Good Standing | 2014 | 06/01/2022 |
Legal answers | 6 |
Legal guides | 0 |
Title | Company name | Duration |
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Principal Attorney/Owner | Bay Area Corporate Counsel | 2018 - Present |
Attorney | Walk Law Firm, PA | 2015 - Present |
Revenue Officer | Internal Revenue Service | 2009 - 2014 |
Interrogator | United States Army | 2002 - 2009 |
Association name | Position name | Duration |
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Florida Bar, Tax Section | N/A | |
American Bar Association, Taxation Section | N/A |
Publication name | Title | Date |
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Tampa Business Lawyer Blog | Business Owners Tax Tips and Strategies your CPA isn’t telling you about (Part 1). | 2018 |
School name | Degree | Graduated |
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Georgetown University Law Center | LL.M - Master of Laws | 2015 |
Stetson University College of Law | Doctor of Jurisprudence/Juris Doctor | 2014 |
Conference name | Title | Date |
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Ask an Expert | Business Incorporations | 2018 |
Going into Business | Business Law | 2018 |
Case name | Outcome |
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Corporation Investment | Good. |
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