Richard Cooper Watson III

Richard C. Watson III, Esq, LLM (tax), MSFS, CFP, ChFC, CLU, AEP, EA, is the founder of Watson Tax Law Group, APC.  

As a firm that is exclusively focused on the needs of entrepreneurs, we help small business owners build, manage, and transition their businesses.  Whether it’s helping to form a startup, drafting a buy-sell agreement, assessing a company's strategic transition alternatives, or providing transaction advisory services for a variety of shareholder transactions (i.e., gifting or selling to the next generation, selling to existing shareholders or partners, to a group of employees, to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan [ESOP], or to a financial or strategic buyer), we can help.  

We view planning for entrepreneurs–and especially business succession planning–as a team sport and work collaboratively with an owner's full advisory team to design and implement a business succession and exit plan that best meets an owner's long-term business transition planning goals and objectives and maximizes the outcomes for all stakeholders.

We regularly counsel small business owners on:

• Formation services for startups;
• Business succession planning;
• Buy-sell agreements;
• Transaction advisory (i.e., corporate restructurings, M&A advisory, and shareholder buyouts, redemptions, buybacks, and buyins); and
• Estate and tax planning that is customized for entrepreneurs and their businesses.