Jayne M Sassano

Our business was going well but the owners, me being one of them were not. Life was pulling us in different directions. When we agreed to hire Jayne as a business and legal adviser we hoped she would provide clarity and new direction and she did that. We found out that our CPA was overcharging us,... that our life insurance salesman and longtime friend set up our coverage wrong, and then we learned that one partner that we just agreed to buy out had set up a shadow company and was ripping off our sales. When the dust settled we got payback from the thief and we ended up deciding to sell our company to some younger employees who could really build on our success. I was very impressed with Jayne's abilities. This all took place in less than a year and we were charged a fair flat fee we knew up front.

In 1997 our company was transferred from one generation to the next. Jayne Sassano was hired by our company and worked with a total of five people during that process, all of whom had very different needs and ideas. Through meeting with each of the five people separately, she gained an understanding... of what was important to each. She then came up with a plan that everyone agreed upon and successfully transferred the company. As a tax attorney, she also helped us to transfer the company while paying the least amount of taxes legally possible. She saved us a great deal of money. In 2013 one of our partners wanted to sell his portion of the business. We had all been so impressed with Jayne's work from the first time we hired her in 1997, that all of us agreed that we would use Jayne to help us through this process as well. Once more Jayne came through for all of us. It is very rare that both sides (buyers and seller) would use the same person to represent them, but that is the kind of trust that all of us had in Jayne. She did not disappoint us! She was able to come up with a workable and realistic plan that addressed the different needs, and that we all agreed upon. She was absolutely wonderful to work with. She is honest, creative, has reasonable prices for the high quality of work that she does. She takes complicated legal issues and simplifies them so that everybody can have a clear understanding of the situation. She is also great at working with people, understanding what they need and coming up with a plan that's agreeable to everyone I would, without any reservation, recommend Jayne for doing any type of business transfers.

Wow, my sister in law found this lawyer to help resolve a messy dispute over money and power at our family firm. Jayne met with us in depth, anaylyzed accountings and legal docs for us, spelled things out so we could understand it. One person/ brother wanted to control the entire company but Jay...ne proved to him that he was not a good fit. he was mad for a time. She figured out how to get all of us to agree on the right way to proceed and we are all satisfied, though maybe not thrilled. In tuff times the best solution is not always MY solution or my brother's solution. We could have each hired a mean lawyer who would waste our time and money. instead we got a problem solver who had been this route before. She also found an error that saved us some big bucks each year that was used to make payouts to us instead. I would recommend Jayne to anyone who wants a solution and not a fancy arguement going nowhear.