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William O'Brien is a business lawyer who has mastered tax-wise planning of personal estates and business ventures. Bill's tax and estate planning experience allows him to structure transactions that help clients meet their business objectives.Bill has extensive experience in representing closely-held businesses and their owners. His practice involves all phases of legal consultation for businesses, including formation, contractual drafting and negotiations, shareholder agreements and buying, selling and merging businesses. Bill has had significant exposure to all areas of representing closely-held businesses and their owners, including family owned businesses and individuals who are ready to retire and transition out of the business. From all aspects of his involvement in the transactions, Bill brings to the table a common sense approach and strategy in an attempt to get the deal done.Bill’s knowledge in the areas of estate tax and succession planning has given him the base to enable numerous clients to transition their asset holdings through complicated estate planning goals and business succession plans to assist those clients in accomplishing the goals they have, as well as other goals which the client was not thinking about when first seeking Bill’s advice. Bill’s involvement in individual tax planning and business tax planning adds an additional level of skill to assist business owners and their families in avoiding or deferring taxes income taxes, corporate taxes and estate taxes.Bill also serves on the Board of Directors of an upper mid-west property and casualty insurance company, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Catholic Eldercare, a non-profit nursing home and assisted living organization with facilities in the Twin Cities.Bill has been named a Minnesota Super Lawyer by his peers. Bill is also a Certified Public Accountant (Inactive). | 