CORPORATE, BUSINESS AND TAX LAW:

Van Meer & Belanger offers legal advice for the business owner, from structuring a purchase and sale transaction to answering day to day legal questions. We assist in mergers and acquisitions and other business and joint ventures. We advise clients on the federal tax laws affecting their business transactions. We are involved in negotiating and drafting most documents which our clients need in their daily operations, including employment agreements, noncompetition agreements and confidentiality agreements. The firm handles all types of business entities, including C and S corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships and strives to educate clients as to the best type of entity for a client's particular purpose. We represent our clients in tax controversies before the Internal Revenue Service and have tried tax cases in the U.S. Tax Court and Federal District Courts. We assist accountants and other lawyers in contested tax matters. We also act as expert witnesses in trials on matters of corporate, tax and business law.