Business Lawyer in Beverly Hills

To be truly considered a business, all businesses must share two characteristics:

1. Generate recurring income
2. Increase equity for eventual sale

As a business planner, Brian Dennis counsels entrepreneurs, working in tandem with other professional advisors such as CPAs, helping owners focus on these core elements.  His work continually stresses these characteristics in the planning that he does. Business planning is not considered to be the practice of law, and the attorney-client privilege and confidentiality rules don’t apply to it, but at the client’s option Brian incorporates them into his counsel, which covers the following areas:

• Forming new businesses
• Buying and selling businesses
• Operating businesses
• Protecting businesses and other assets through asset protection
• Transferring businesses through estate planning

Procedures involved in the work include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Proprietorships, LLCs and Corporations - Formation/dissolution and monitoring (Minutes, etc.)
• Shareholder agreements
• Compliance with Securities laws
• Employment law issues
• Secured transactions - verifying whether adequate security is in place for you as a creditor
• Real estate leases, purchases and sales
• Financing issues
• Business planning and counseling (non-legal advice)
• Internet and Website Law

Business Owner's Review

Brian offers a comprehensive check-up for business owners.  Perspective on your business is provided in multiple areas to ascertain whether you are operating at peak performance, and if not, how you can.  Running a business at peak performance assures that top dollar can be obtained for your business upon sale, and every business, should be managed as if it were going to be sold immediately, regardless of whether an immediate sale is contemplated, because in that way revenues and profits are maximized.