BUSINESS PRACTICE GROUP

The Firm enjoys one of Las Vegas’s 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.

Michael E. Kearney is one Nevada's preeminent authorities on Nevada limited liability companies, having intimately participated in the drafting and subsequent revision of Nevada Revised Statues Chapter 86, the relevant statutory law. Mr. Kearney was particularly instrumental in causing Nevada's LLC Statute to be one of the first recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as qualifying for favorable tax treatment, a legal development ultimately being a part of the IRS recognizing all LLCs created under state statutes to be normally treated as partnerships for federal tax purposes. Mr. Kearney has frequently lectured on Nevada LLCs both locally and nationally. Mr. Kearney also possesses extensive knowledge of Nevada's gaming law, which allows him to be of great service to clients wishing to purchase or sell gaming related properties and businesses.

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 practice with business organizations, each providing a unique educational and experience background to the Firm’s practice.