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AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business — Episode 6: Immigration Insights for Companies Expanding Into the U.S. - Part 2
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business — Episode 6: Immigration Insights for Companies Expanding Into the U.S. - Part 1
Staying on Track and Giving Back with Bill Spruill
A View From the Starting Line – A Conversation with Teenpreneur Tierney Schmidt
Preparing A Company For Sale - A Podcast with Janathan Allen
Business Succession Planning Podcast with Janathan Allen
Navigating Russia Sanctions
The Blackletter Podcast | A podcast for CEOs, Corporate Counsel, & Entrepreneurs
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Buy-Sell Agreements: A Conversation With Expert and Author Paul Hood
Exit Worth Celebrating – It’s Never Too Early to Plan for Your Exit
Marriage and Divorce Considerations for Health Care Providers
Ashley Coselli and Daniel Wendt on Difficult Anti-Corruption Due Diligence Projects
How can an emergency injunction save your business?
Stoel Rives | Deeply Rooted Podcast Episode Five: Exploring Succession and Generational Change with Kevin Adams, Managing Director for The Mountain Group
Law Brief®: Steve Polyakov and Richard Schoenstein Explore Healthcare Agreements
Exit Strategies for GOVCONs with Set Aside Contracts: 2021 Insights and Lessons Learned from Business Owners and Advisors
SO VERY HARD TO GO (NOT)! In Pursuit of Puerto Rican Tax Incentives
Ledgers and Law: Start With an Ending in Mind When Building a New Business
On June 6, 2024, the Supreme Court held 9-to-0 in Connelly v. United States that company-owned life insurance increases the company’s fair market value for estate tax purposes, and the company’s obligation to redeem a...more
On June 6, 2024, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion regarding Connelly, as Executor of the Estate of Connelly v. United States. This final decision will directly impact all closely held business owners that...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued an important ruling on June 6, 2024, clarifying the federal tax consequences of certain succession plans for closely held businesses. The Court held in Connelly v. United States,...more
Connelly v. United States involved determining the fair market value of a closely-held corporation for purposes of estate taxation. A corporation, owned by two brothers, was obligated to buy back the shares of the first to...more
All U.S. closely held businesses just received a warning from the highest court in the land that they should review their succession plans (or else risk a higher tax bill for the estates of their owners). On June 6, 2024, the...more
Do you feel as challenged as I do when someone asks you to explain the term “Bidenomics”? I know that it is predicated upon the imposition of higher taxes on businesses and their owners, which have not yet materialized....more
Estate Tax – It’s a Killer- One of the reasons often given for eliminating the estate tax is the substantial economic burden it places upon the estate of a deceased business owner and upon the business itself. Specifically,...more
Counting the Days?- We are 302 days away from the national mid-term elections, to be held November 8, 2022, yet the first full week of the new year has already highlighted some of the economic issues with which the...more
Not Selling Your Business This Year? Beginning shortly before the House Ways and Means Committee released its version of the President’s Build Back Better plan, several posts on this blog have explored the uptick in M&A...more
The Dog Days- I’ve never much cared for the month of August. In New York, at least for me, the eighth month of the year – named by the Roman Emperor, Augustus, to honor himself – evokes memories of very warm, very humid...more
In the Beginning- From the dawn of recorded history, those who have the means have purchased or otherwise financed the work of those whom we call artists – talented individuals capable of producing what we call works of...more