Jeff Detwiler is a business lawyer with a specialty in tax matters. He has particular expertise in business structuring, including planning, negotiation and implementation of partnerships, joint ventures, corporations, and limited liability companies. Jeff's tax background, combined with extensive experience with business transactions, provides clients with a valuable and creative resource in structuring business start-ups, venture capital investments, business acquisitions, sales, mergers and joint venture relationships. Jeff's business practice includes:
Business formation and structuring, including choice of business entities
Venture capital investments
Compensation matters, including creative planning of contingent compensation approaches, deferred compensation programs and equity based compensation plans, including stock options, restricted stock, stock purchase plans, stock appreciation rights and phantom stock
Complex partnership and limited liability company matters
Buying and selling businesses
Structuring business relationships and general business and contract counseling
Jeff's extensive experience in federal, state, international and local tax matters includes:
Tax structuring of taxable and non-taxable business mergers, acquisitions, sales and redemptions
Real estate tax matters including investment structuring, tax consequences of workouts, and like-kind exchanges
California sales and use tax matters "Pass through entities" including partnerships, S Corporations and limited liability companies
Jeff supports the firm's other lawyers in business and real estate matters, with a goal of developing integrated solutions to clients' business problems.
Jeff is a 1975 graduate of Cornell University and received his law degree in 1978 from the College of William & Mary.
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