Centreville, DE | Hockessin, DE | Kennett Square, PA | West Chester, PA
724 Yorklyn Rd #100
Hockessin, DE 19707
302-239-3700
Centreville, DE | Hockessin, DE | Kennett Square, PA | West Chester, PA
724 Yorklyn Rd #100
Hockessin, DE 19707
302-239-3700
We pride ourselves on providing well-thought-out advice in a manner that is timely, efficient and reflects our clients’ business objectives. The knowledge and experience of each tax lawyer is not limited to just the tax department, but is made available firm wide through close collaboration and cooperation across practices groups.
For taxpayers engaging in business and real estate transactions, success depends on compliance with a diverse and ever-evolving array of tax rules. Tax regulations and policies are constantly changing, and often vary widely in different national, regional, and local jurisdictions. A thorough understanding of the tax regulations can mean the difference between profitable transactions and harsh penalties.
MacElree Harvey provides comprehensive and strategic tax planning advice, combining a thorough knowledge of complex tax laws with a pragmatic problem-solving approach to our clients’ tax issues. We serve corporations, private equity funds, family businesses, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, and non-profits in a wide variety of transactions ranging from routine corporate formations to complex mergers and acquisitions. Our goal is to maximize after-tax results for our clients within applicable laws and regulations.
MacElree Harvey’s tax attorneys provide thoughtful and experienced advocacy on behalf of clients in federal, state and local tax disputes. We represent clients at all stages of the administrative process, from audit through administrative appeal and post–appeals mediation. We also represent clients in a wide range of tax collection matters, from initial assessment through enforced collection means (liens and levies).
MacElree Harvey’s Tax Controversy lawyers have an in-depth understanding of tax matters arising in controversies affecting a broad array of industries, including the financial products, hedge fund, manufacturing, transportation, entertainment, and utility industries. Likewise, we have significant experience with many of the issues on which the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and state and local taxing authorities currently focus their resources. On the federal side those include debt/equity issues, the determination of ownership of property, capital versus expense classifications, losses from trading in securities and commodities, economic substance and business purpose, and placed-in-service date disputes. We have also handled cases involving tax shelters, accounting methods, and promoter registration. With respect to state and local controversies, our experience extends to a wide range of income, capital, and transactional tax issues.
We routinely advise clients on state and local tax planning matters, including entity selection, operational flow, and the tax consequences of acquisitions, reorganizations, and divestitures. Our lawyers have handled tax controversies in state courts and administrative proceedings.
We advise our not-for-profit clients on a broad range of matters including general tax issues, tax-exempt financing, securing and maintaining recognition of tax-exempt status, issues regarding payments to grantees (including foreign organizations), corporate governance, restructuring and bylaws issues, contract negotiations, employment issues, donor issues, real estate transactions, land use and local government issues, and the substantive areas of law with which the client is involved.
We have extensive experience in representing our nonprofit client in an application for real estate tax exemption, or defending our client when an existing tax exemption is changed or challenged. We have represented clients before tax assessment boards, tax courts, courts of general jurisdiction and have successfully negotiated tax settlements and payment in lien of tax (“PILOT”) agreements for our nonprofit and charitable clients.
Below are some of the forms that we prepare for clients:
OFFICES
ARTICLES
ALL PRACTICE AREAS
Our business law practice places an emphasis on small and mid-market companies. We build strong relationships with our clients so we understand their goals and challenges and can act as a trusted legal and business advisor. Our business attorneys help clients in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Northern Delaware find reasonable and practical solutions to business and legal problems.
Starting at formation and through the lifecycle of a business, we provide comprehensive and knowledgeable advice on numerous issues facing small to mid-market companies. Our team of attorneys will assist with entity formation, hiring and terminating employees, confidentiality and non-compete issues; drafting shareholder, partnership and operating agreements; and a wide variety of business and commercial contracts. Our business attorneys regularly handle complex business matters including governance issues, strategic planning, executive compensation, negotiating and structuring financing, transition, continuity and succession planning, and liquidity events such as sales or mergers.
To ensure our clients get the best representation possible, where appropriate, our business team that works closely with other MacElree Harvey lawyers, drawing on the skills and experience of lawyers in the areas of commercial litigation, taxation, estate, and succession planning, real estate, employment, finance, insolvency, collections, and restructuring.
MacElree Harvey has helped hundreds of new businesses get their start. We assist clients in the start-up phase with the critical first steps to establish their businesses. We listen to our clients’ objectives, in order to understand the nature of their business, taking into consideration liability concerns, tax ramifications, management and ownership structures, financial issues, and other issues specific to their business.
Throughout every stage of a client’s business, we encourage an eye to the future. Our goal is to build long-term relationships with our clients, tailoring our legal services to their business as it grows and develops.
MacElree Harvey aims to simplify the legal process and provide affordable, high-quality corporate law services so our clients can stick to what they do best while we handle the compliance, contractual and other legal concerns. We assist owners and boards of directors maintain their operations and foster growth while avoiding legal and regulatory pitfalls. Our attorneys regularly handle complex business matters related to governance, transitions and transactions, strategic planning, raising financing, and offering new services or products. Our attorneys also advise clients on transfers of technology and intellectual property, as well as trademarks, copyrights, and licenses. As our clients’ businesses expand and change, we approach each transaction with financial considerations and long-term strategic plans in mind. Our attorneys listen to the clients’ objectives before aggressively pursuing their interests in any transaction.
Unfortunately, not all business ventures end harmoniously. A “business divorce” involves issues of control, ownership, and distribution of property, as well as potential payments. These business decisions are often accompanied by high-stakes conflict and intense emotions. Our attorneys lend a depth of experience in negotiation and strategic unwinding of a business. When necessary, we work with our litigation group to resolve disagreements as part of the business divorce process.
MacElree Harvey has worked closely with generations of family business owners and executives. We understand that an owner’s closely held business may be a family’s largest and most important asset. We provide advice related to governance, risk management, employment, real estate, and tax matters, as well as continuity and succession planning. In addition, we help family business owners anticipate risk and conflict through each stage of their business. We evaluate the goals of a business’s current and future owners and advise clients on advanced planning related to management, tax structures, valuation, and transition.
As family businesses pass from generation to generation, transferring ownership, control and assets can be a complex and emotional process. Our attorneys work with families and their advisers to do advance planning for these transitions, minimizing conflict and stress. If disputes arise within the family as part of this process, our attorneys are highly skilled at dealing with those conflicts and negotiating them to resolution. We apply our experience and knowledge from prior successful transitions to our clients’ situations to achieve clients’ goals.
Family business succession planning is a vital component for any closely-held business owner’s estate plan. Our business attorneys work closely with our estates and trusts group, coordinating our efforts to plan business ownership transfers using methods that satisfy our clients’ personal objectives while minimizing risk and tax burdens.
Owners of professional practices are subject to the same important business decisions as to any other business owner. Doctors, dentists, accountants, lawyers, architects and owners of other licensed professional practices frequently call upon our attorneys for counsel on the legal issues confronting their businesses.
MacElree Harvey’s business attorneys regularly establish professional practices, assisting clients with entity selection and formation, as well as management and governance. Our real estate attorneys negotiate leases for office space and space sharing agreements. As practices grow, owners may choose to add associate members. These changes require developing employment contracts, partnership tracks, non-competition agreements, and compensation plans. Further, when more than one person will be involved in the ownership of the practice, our attorneys assist in designing appropriate business agreements that consider issues ranging from buy-in methods to exit strategies.
Employment policies are also an important consideration for professional practices. We advise clients on employment issues such as employment manuals, workplace policies, hiring and termination procedures, as well as compliance with federal, state and local laws.
PRACTICE AREAS
ARTICLES
ALL PRACTICE AREAS
Centreville, DE | Hockessin, DE | Kennett Square, PA | West Chester, PA
17 West Miner Street
West Chester, PA 19382
610-436-0100
Attorneys