Practice Groups: Business
Business Practice Group
The firm enjoys one of Las Vegas’ most experienced and complete business organization practices with a number of attorneys practicing in corporate, general and limited partnerships, and limited liability company matters. The firm’s extensive expertise in these areas allows its attorneys to beneficially advise business clients on formation and management, operational issues, tax matters, mergers and acquisitions, business plans, securities matters, and dissolution issues. The business organization attorneys also have extensive experience and frequent interfacing with the firm’s tax, property, and intellectual property attorneys.
Kenneth A. Woloson utilizes his tax and business transactional background to assist numerous clients of the law firm with their succession and estate planning concerns. He has been an active member of the State Bar’s standing Executive Committee, which oversees the drafting of Nevada’s various business entity laws dealing with the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships. Mr. Woloson is well-versed in the preparation of wills, living trusts, irrevocable gift and insurance trusts, family limited partnerships and a variety of other probate avoidance and/or tax advantageous business entities.
His practice has included conducting the due diligence for, and the negotiation and preparation of, dozens of legal opinions each year as an integral part of numerous corporate and commercial transactions, as well as a significant number of real estate transactions. Mr. Woloson has also been responsible for the formation, organization, and maintenance of many hundreds of corporate, partnership and limited-liability company clients, as well as for audit inquiry responses and statutory registered agent matters. He has also been actively involved as both general counsel and local counsel to numerous gaming and non-gaming clients in connection with acquisitions, sales, leasing and financing transactions, including public offerings of stock, debentures and notes, credit and load facilities, mergers and exchanges, and stock and asset purchases. In the past several years, some of those transactions included the purchase of numerous properties for Station Casinos’ Boulder Station project, the purchase of the Mint Hotel for the Horseshoe Club Hotel & Casino, the purchase of the Dunes Hotel property for Mirage Resorts, the merger of numerous Goldstrike entities and Circus Circus Enterprises, Inc., and the financing of numerous hotel and casino expansions.
J. Douglas Driggs, Jr. practiced extensively in securities matters as an attorney with Streich Lang in Phoenix, Arizona. His practice now centers on real estate finance matters, but Mr. Driggs’ experience in securities matters is often utilized in the Firm’s diverse corporate practice and in a real estate business organization formation context.
Ronald J. Thompson practices extensively with small and large businesses, advising them on corporate, business, employment, and related issues. Dean S. Bennett concentrates on real estate transactions, in particular condominium conversions, planned communities, and real estate finance. Andrew J. Glendon practices with business organizations, each providing a unique educational and experience background to the Firm’s practice. Bryce K. Earl assists organizations in the creation of intellectual property holding companies. Together, the firm’s business practice is among the most experienced and skilled in Nevada.