Practice Areas
SONG & LEE Silicon Valley Law Firm
Corporate and International Tax
We advise a range of clients, from large multinational corporations to growing start-up companies. We devise resolutions for tax concerns and offers aggressive investment solutions, with the main optimal goal to establish efficient structures. We offer advices on areas such as international financial products, ongoing tax planning for multinational clients, international tax planning, and much more.
We help clients with sophisticated transactional needs involving limited liability companies, emerging companies, partnerships and other joint ventures, closely held-businesses, strategic alliances, and a variety of trust agreements, and more.
Mergers & Acquisition
We devise an approach to M&A planning, staying perceptive and observant to the different kinds of federal and state securities and fillings and compliance laws, tax, securities, employee benefits, intellectual property, and other matters that may be present in M&A.
We engage in different types of M&A matters such as below:
- Acquisition for control
- Joint ventures
- Private equity
- Strategic mergers
- Preparation for prospective targets
- Asset sales/purchases
- Etc.
Securities
Our expertise in securities include:
- Venture financing
- Investment banking
- Private placements
- Etc.
We represent clients on documents for all products, and in securities transactions that range from small investment to multi-billion dollar private equity acquisitions.
Startups & Startup Financing & Investment
We help entrepreneurs choose the best business/legal strategies to help their startup companies with growth, financing, plans, and structure in the context of venture capital financings, and M&A. We advise on following:
- Tax planning
- Employee and shareholder matters
- Debt transactions
- Corporate setup and governance
- Etc.
Establishing a corporation through syndicated investments or venture capitals. Offering advice for appropriate investment and profit distribution structure while taking tax issues into account
Forming subsidiaries in the United States and setting up the legal relationship with the headquarters overseas in accordance with tax law
Setting the range of managerial rights and interests that must be transferred to investors for investment from venture capital funds. Carrying out a legal assessment of the intellectual property and management structure of the company
Additions
We establish companies in the form of Partnership, Corporation, or Limited Liability Company (LLC) in accordance with the prescribed regulations. We prepare bylaws after considering the management, financial structure, and tax issues including business registration with the state
We amend/register bylaws for issue or change of stocks with the consideration of difference between the preferred stock and common stock
We give regular assistance with corporate governance activities including annual meetings, board meetings and resolutions
We draft, revise, and interpret shareholders agreements. We handle lawsuits brought by shareholders or the board of directors
We help with application, registration, and renewal of various business licenses
Commercial Law
ㆍ We draft and review contracts associated with various business transactions.
ㆍ We help make claims for the unauthorized use or disclosure of trade secrets
ㆍ We also help file a creditor’s claim for a payment or lawsuit with regard to a default on a payment obligation secured by a note in conjunction with a commercial transaction
ㆍ We advise legal issues relating to Franchise Agreements
Litigation
ㆍ Utilizing our deep trial experience, we are prepared to represent and defend our clients through any trial, verdict and appeal from our deep trial experience. We are skilled in providing any alternative dispute resolution including arbitration, neutral evaluation, negotiation, and early settlement. We obtain relevant evidence and research thoroughly for statutory and case law.
ㆍ We initiate lawsuits by drafting a complaint as an attorney for a plaintiff and defend or counter-plead as an attorney for our clients.
ㆍ Admitted to practice before all California courts, Central and Northern District Federal Court, 9th Circuit Court, and Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
Litigation work include:
- Commercial Litigation
- Employment Law
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Etc.
Immigration
ㆍ We help with the application, renewal, or related works of non-immigrant visas such as Trading (E-1), Investment (E-2), Working (H-1B), Intra-company Transferee (L-1), Foreign Exchange Program (J-1), Student (F-1), Religious (R-1), and help with cases that are related to immigration by employment or investment.
We also help with immigration petitions as following:
- Foreign nationals that possess extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business or athletics; outstanding professors or researchers; managers and executives on international transfer to the U.S. (EB-1)
- Foreign nationals who have exceptional ability in the sciences, arts or business; are advanced degree professionals (NIW) or qualified alien physicians who will practice medicine in an underserved area of the U.S. (EB-2)
- Foreign nationals with at least two years’ experience as skilled workers; professionals with bachelor’s degrees, professionals with bachelor’s degrees who do not qualify for either categories EB-1 and EB-2; aliens with at least two years of experience as skilled workers; professionals with a baccalaureate degree; and unskilled workers who can contribute abilities unavailable in the U.S. (EB-3)
- Religious workers, aliens who have worked for the U.S. government overseas and widows/widowers of U.S. citizens are among those who qualify for work-related green cards as special immigrants (EB-4)
- An investor who meets certain qualifications (EB-5)o Immigrants with Family-based immigration, citizenship, and/or deportation issues
