Bay Area Legal Services
At Bay Legal, we help you with the legal services needed to navigate your particular situation. The following legal services and law, we specialize in:
- Unbundled Legal Services
- Flat & Hourly rate
- Limited Scope Services
- Corporate securities
- Entity Formation
- Bylaws, Operating Agreements
- Partnership agreements
- Real estate law
- Contract law
- Estate planning
- Wills & Trusts
- Probate
- Family Law – Complex Divorce
- Focus on Financial Separation
- Family Business Assets
Business Law, Entity / Corporate Formation – Bay Area Legal Services
From early state entity formation to large institutions, clients rely on Bay Legal for a balance of sophisticated legal knowledge, financial planning, and practical legal advice. With your goals being our #1 priority, we work with you to identify and solve your issues with a focus on the minimization of risks (and taxes).
Our services include:
- General business guidance and legal advice
- Entity formation and structuring, including C-corporations, S-corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies
- We also work with sole proprietors, strategic alliances and joint ventures
- Executive compensation, structuring compensation and benefit arrangements
- Mergers and acquisitions, both acquiring and selling businesses
- Commercial finance, representing borrowers and lenders in all varieties of secured and unsecured arrangements
- Termination and separation agreements
- Contracts and agreements, across the spectrum of all business needs including real estate and leasing.
Estate Planning
Wills, Trusts, Probate
Estate planning strategies and techniques change as tax laws, both federal and state change, over time. Our attorneys monitor both proposed and actual changes and follow industry experts in order to stay maximize your estate strategies. Some of the the estate planning tools we utilize include:
- Revocable Living Trusts
- Last Will & Testaments
- Financial/Durable Powers of Attorney
- Advance Health Care Directives
- Qualified Personal Residence Trusts
- Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
- Generational Skipping Trusts (GSTs)
- Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts
- Business Asset Analysis and Valuation Discounts
- Family Limited Partnerships
- Family Limited Liability Companies
- Gift Trust
- Charitable Giving Programs
Work with lawyers that have superior insight into your area of law
- Innovative solutions for your business
- Problem-solvers at heart, fighting for you
- Restructuring and insolvency experts
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