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Business Transactions & Formations
Our business department represents medium and large corporate clients as well as small closely held companies operating throughout Hawaii. Types of representation of businesses include commercial real estate entities, small and light manufacturing concerns, restaurants, retail, professional practice corporations including physicians, dentists, psychologists and other allied healthcare professionals. We have assisted sellers and purchasers in transfers of hotels, consulting firms, transportation companies, restaurants, real estate companies, brokerage companies and national franchises.
We structure many of our transactions as asset sales, stock sales and mergers. We also form partnerships, professional and domestic corporations, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, as well as perform corporate conversions of these entities throughout Hawaii.
Real Estate
We represent both sellers and buyers in the acquisition of both fee simple and leasehold undeveloped land, commercial leasing, commercial real estate development projects, as well as representing real estate brokers, real estate companies, developers and other real estate consultants and appraisers.
Our real estate department works closely with our corporate department in the acquisition and sale of hotels and other business concerns involving large and small real estate transactions as part of an overall business transaction. In conjunction with our litigation department, we also handle real estate litigation including partition work, quiet title actions, misrepresentation, fraud, and other breach of contract issues pertaining to the sale or purchase of real estate.
Tax Law
Our tax department counsels clients in the structuring of various transactions involving real estate sales and acquisitions and corporate mergers, sales of stock and acquisition and transfer of corporate assets. Our taxation department works closely with our corporate and real estate department to provide a broad range of expertise to address various tax aspects of all corporate transactions. We handle 1031 exchanges, State of Hawaii General Excise Tax issues, and federal, state and local corporate and individual tax issues as well. We provide tax advice to partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies in all phases including entity formation, operation and dissolution.
Construction
Practice areas include construction and real estate financial disputes, development, defect and mechanic’s liens. Representative clients include contracts, ranging from established Hawaii family businesses to some of Hawaii’s largest construction companies, developers and insurers.
Healthcare & Professional Practice
Our healthcare & professional practices group represents many of Hawaii’s leading physicians, dentists, psychologists and other Allied Healthcare professionals in negotiating practice transitions, purchases and sales as well as practice group formation and structuring associate buy-ins and partner or principal retirement exit strategies.
Structuring the formation of various professional and healthcare practice groups can be a complex undertaking with various tax considerations. We have unique expertise in this area given the almost 30 years of experience we have in representing professional practices in Hawaii.
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