Frank N. Lago

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Bay Area Corporate Counsel

Experience: 9 years

Business Law and Tax Law

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As an attorney dedicated to serving businesses and business owners, I provide counseling in a wide variety of matters which businesses and their owners face: from reviewing contracts and drafting agreements to regulatory compliance, mergers & acquisitions (representing buyers and sellers), employment law (e.g. handbooks, EEOC representation), intellectual property (e.g. copyright, trademark, trade secret), tax (e.g. federal, state, local), and international trade (e.g. China, Israel, Hong Kong, Bermuda, etc.).

As your outsourced general counsel, I help solve your business problems, a few recent matters having been:

A) Work Representing Sellers
1. Helping a business owner sell his multi-million dollar electrical services business.
2. Counseling a business owner through selling his Painting with a Twist Franchise.
3. Representing a business owner sell his custom drilling rig.

B) Work for Buyers
1. Represented a Buyer in a Stock Purchase of an automotive company.
2. Assisted one member purchase the membership interest of another.

C) Tax Exempt Work
1. Establishing a 501(c)(3) for equine therapy.
2. Counseling a business in creation of a Private Operating Foundation.

D) Establishing limited liability companies, corporations, and partnerships in Florida, Delaware, Nevada and Georgia.

E) Compliance Work
1. Assisting a jeweler with their Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) program and independent auditing.
2. Helping taxpayers become compliant after not filing tax returns for several years.
3. Wrote an employee handbook focusing on defenses to EEOC claims.
4. Represented taxpayer in defending an innocent spouse claim.

F) Controversy Work
1. Representing a business owner in a small claims court mediation.
2. Advised insurance companies to prevent former employees taking clients and employees.

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

Florida

Since 2014

Professional Experience

2018 - Current

Bay Area Corporate Counsel

Principal Attorney/Owner

2015 - Current

Walk Law Firm, PA

Attorney

2016 - 2017

University of South Florida

Adjunct Professor

2009 - 2014

Internal Revenue Service

Revenue Officer

2002 - 2009

United States Army

Soldier, Human Intelligence Platoon Sergeant, Interrogation Team Leader

Education

2015 - 2015

Georgetown University Law Center

LL.M. (2015) | Taxation

2011 - 2014

Stetson University College of Law

J.D. (2014) | Law

2011

State University of New York - Empire State College

B.A.

2009

Cochise College

A.A.S.

Contacts

Bay Area Corporate Counsel 1818 Short Branch Dr #101C Trinity FL 34655 Telephone: (855) 521-2222

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Frank N. Lago Bay Area Corporate Counsel

Experience: 9 years

Website: Open

Phone: (855) 521-2222

Location: USA

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Practice Areas

Business Law

Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes

Tax Law

Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning

Languages

English

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