Small Business Formation & Business Succession Planning

San Francisco Business Succession Planning Lawyer

The Hardin Law Offices provides comprehensive business formation and business succession planning services to professionals in San Francisco, Walnut Creek, and surrounding areas. We utilize complex asset protection strategies to preserve business interests, minimize tax liabilities, and provide opportunity for the business to prosper into the future.

Business Formation • Asset Preservation

At the Hardin Law Offices, we provide knowledgeable business formation advice. If you are starting a business, we will help you choose the right form of business entity (such as a partnership, limited liability company or corporation) to minimize taxes and liability and execute your business strategy.

In addition, we can implement a variety of asset protection strategies designed to protect those with high incomes or high-risk investments. We help set up limited liability companies (LLC), family limited partnerships (FLP), and other business entities. These techniques can help shield assets, such as rental properties, from creditors and help to minimize estate and gift tax consequences.

Business Succession Planning

In conjunction with our estate planning and business formation services, we provide business succession planning services in Northern California. If a business owner dies without an effective business succession plan, a prospering business can rapidly lose profits and fail. In addition, the deceased's assets may be tied up in the business resulting in the family's inability to pay estate taxes and estate administration costs. The remaining business owners and family members are left unable to proceed.

At the Hardin Law Offices, we assist clients with comprehensive business succession planning services. We clearly explain the options available, such as buy-sell agreements, business-owned life insurance, stock transfers or redemptions, and other business succession planning techniques.

Proactive Business Formation and Business Succession Planning

Our depth of knowledge enables us to explain business succession and asset preservation techniques in simple, easy-to-understand language. We help clients obtain peace of mind by preserving wealth and protecting their family. Contact Attorney Shannon L. Hardin by calling our San Francisco or Walnut Creek law office.