Over
twenty-five years experience assisting owners of closely-held
businesses in
general legal and tax matters.
Practice
Areas
Strategic tax
and business planning—Structuring
business start-ups, acquisitions, mergers and terminations; developing
management and governance (control) structures, planning organizational
structures and reviewing tax/business advantages and disadvantages of
various
business forms. Development of models for business acquisition.
Business
compliance—Incorporation/organization
of new and existing businesses. Drafting and review of leases,
franchise
agreements, employment and independent contractor agreements, general
business
contracts.
Estate and
business succession planning—Primary
emphasis on drafting and implementing trusts, wills and buy-sell
agreements;
insurance uses and planning; minimization of estate tax; restructuring
ownership of assets.
Tax planning
and compliance—All
major aspects of federal taxation, including corporate,
partnership/joint
venture, individual and estate/trust taxation. Exposure to
various state
and local tax issues.
Practice
before the
Software
Agreements—Negotiation
and preparation of agreements for the development, licensing and/or
escrow of
software.
Education
University of
Missouri,
St. Louis; B.S. Business Administration, Summa Cum Laude; 1976
St. Louis University School of Law; Cum Laude, Order
of the Woolsack; 1979
Professional
Memberships
Missouri Bar
Association
Missouri
Society of Certified Public Accountants
American Society of Certified
Public Accountants
©
2011 Donald
O. Hackmann