Category: Business & Corporate Law

Qualified Small Business Stock: 2025 Update

We’ve previously written about Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) and the potential tax benefits that come with it if you structure your entity appropriately. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which was signed into law on July 4, 2025, expands the tax exemption available for QSBS and now further

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Your First Commercial Lease!

It is simple to sign a lease and stuff it away to (hopefully) never be seen again. It is decidedly less simple to make sure the document protects your business’ interest (and where you are signing a personal guaranty, as is often the case, your personal interests too).

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Navigating the SBA’s Collection Efforts on COVID-19 Loans

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Small Business Administration (SBA) launched various loan programs, such as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, to support businesses grappling with unprecedented economic challenges. These programs were lifelines for many, providing essential funds to keep

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The Best-Laid Plans of Lawyers and Businessmen

As a transactional attorney, I focus my practice on helping clients plan for and react to business events much more so than I do on interpreting statutes or legislation. Sometimes, however, a statutory change or judicial ruling will have a wide-ranging—and retroactive—impact that is impossible to ignore.

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Business Transition Planning

As a member of the Baby Boom generation, I am advising more and more Millennials who are exploring business acquisitions; primarily involving companies owned or controlled by my Boomer peers. A majority of the estimated 15 million privately owned business in the United States are owned by people born before

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The Impending Corporate Transparency Act 

In the rapidly changing landscape of corporate governance, the Corporate Transparency Act stands out as a significant piece of legislation aimed at curbing illicit activities and enhancing transparency in company operations. For businesses, investors, and legal practitioners, understanding the Act is vital not only for compliance but also to stay

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Form D: What and Why

Form D is a notice filing to be made with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Through required registration and detailed disclosure documents, the Securities Act aims to achieve two main objectives: (1) to require that

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