Corporate


We provide comprehensive entity creation, and assist in all manner of business transactions. We have always been located on the westside of Los Angeles, and always represented entrepreneurs engaged in the entertainment, real estate and technology industries. All of this is done with a particular sensitivity to taxes.

Real Estate


Our varied experience with real estate acquisitions, development, leasing and disposition – from residential construction to factory relocation – has given us particular depth in real estate finance and the various issues particular to California law, such as the rules regarding usury, deficiency judgments, and Proposition 13 – and we have represented lenders taking novel collateral and profit participations. In addition, billboard work is a specialty.

Taxes


We try to keep taxes in mind with everything we do, though we are not pure tax practitioners. We have nodules of experience that pertain to the transactions we see, such as expertise in Internal Revenue Code Section 1031 compliance, which has grown out of our real estate work. Similarly, we have experience with the tax consequences of technology transfers, mergers and acquisitions, and executive compensation plans.

Need help with a substantial real estate or corporate transaction, all with a particular sensitivity to tax issues?


The Law Offices of Robert Jay Grossman specializes in representing parties in business transactions, such as leveraged buyouts, corporate mergers and acquisitions, real estate acquisitions and dispositions, leases, financing arrangements, agreements with municipal entities, and other transactions which may be outside a client’s ordinary course of business. All of this is done with a particular sensitivity to the tax issues and tax opportunities presented. We also structure start-up entities and assists in negotiating and preparing agreements among their principals, including executive compensation packages.


The law firm offers its clients the approach and the expertise found in large corporate law firms with the personalized service and responsiveness of a small law firm. The firm brings a broad array of business and legal skills including corporate, real estate, tax, intellectual property, and securities expertise, to bear on a problem. In addition, the law firm of Robert Jay Grossman has formal relationships with certain prominent law firms to provide in-depth expertise in technical, specialized areas such as bankruptcy, land use, estate planning, securities and pension plan matters.


The firm is the practice of Robert Jay Grossman. Mr. Grossman is a graduate of UCLA Law School and is a Certified Public Accountant (Inactive).

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