Business, Franchising & Real Estate Law Firm in Fremont, California

Matt Dickstein - Business Attorney

39488 Stevenson Place
Suite 100
Fremont, California 94539
USA

(510) 796-9144

www.mattdickstein.com

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Matt Dickstein is a solo business attorney in Fremont, CA. Matt works with medical, dental and other professional practices, franchises, plus general business law, corporate law and real estate ventures. Matt is fluent in Chinese and has worked extensively on legal transactions in the People’s Republic of China. Matt makes legal matters simple and efficient for his clients.

Matt has been practicing business law since 1995. Along the way, he has worked with Graham & James and Wilson Sonsini. Matt went solo in 2001. He graduated from Temple University School of Law in 1995 in the top 5% of his class.

Matt provides business legal services in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Silicon Valley, California, including San Jose, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Oakland, Hayward, Fremont, Walnut Creek, Pleasanton and Sacramento.

Year this Office was Established: 1995

Languages: English, Fluent in Chinese

Attorneys

Mr. Matt Dickstein
Attorney
Business Law, Corporate Law, Franchising, International Law, Mergers and Acquisitions

Areas of Law

Additional Areas of Law: Professional Practices: Medical Practices, Dental Practices, Accountancy Practices, Veterinarian Practices and Chiropractic Practices.

Areas of Law Description

- Business & Corporate

I have been a business / corporate attorney since 1994. I work with domestic and international businesses of all sizes and types. For most business transactions, I charge flat fees. This helps you budget your legal costs and avoid surprises. I have done most deals many times and this helps me predict the likely cost. Further, I try to fit the legal services to the size and complexity of the transaction. It makes no sense to treat a small business purchase like a multi-million dollar deal, because a small deal cannot support the legal fees of a big deal. Conversely, bigger, more complex deals need more legal work. The trick is to know what is really important in a deal.

- Professional Practice

I represent professional practices and corporations, including physicians, dentists, chiropractors, veterinarians and accountants. I form California professional corporations for these and other practices, and I handle their business, corporate and contract matters.

- Real Estate

I help real estate investors with your corporate and securities matters, evictions (unlawful detainers), purchase & sale of real estate and commercial leases. I also run my own real estate investment fund -- I and a partner run Magnolia Foreclosures, which pools investor money to purchase properties in foreclosure.

- ERISA

Fund managers fear the Employee Retirement Investment Security Act of 1974. ERISA might apply if you take money from pension plans or IRAs. ERISA is extremely onerous, and the tax code enforces it with taxes and penalties for violations. A hedge fund can avoid ERISA if it limits the level of investment by "benefit plan investors" to less than 25% of any class of the fund’s equity. Benefit plan investors include employee benefit plans and IRAs. Benefit plan investors do not include investments from the fund manager or any of its affiliates.

- Securities Law

When your fund sells ownership interests to investors, the fund is conducting a securities offering. A securities offering is a highly regulated and complex undertaking. For every offering, the fund must comply with federal securities laws + the laws of each state where an investor resides. This can add up to a lot of law. You can’t opt out of these laws – securities laws will apply to your fund whether you want them to or not. Pretending the laws don’t exist won’t save you.

- Franchise

I practice franchise law, for both franchisors and franchisees. I understand that you have a limited budget, so my philosophy is to provide maximum legal coverage and protection at the minimum price. My franchise practice has three basic parts: First, I help start-up franchisors. Second, I help existing franchisors with their legal compliance and housekeeping work. Third, I help franchisees with their purchase of a franchise and other business / legal needs.

- Shareholder Disputes

Shareholders and partners are like married couples: they fight. It makes no difference that the dispute is between deadlocked equal partners, or between minority and majority shareholders. In both cases, the shareholders and partners need a divorce.

Enter involuntary dissolution, which is your nuclear (that is, your final) resolution. Involuntary dissolution is a judicial process where the court separates the warring partners by forcing a sale of ownership from one to the other, or by forcing a sale of the entire business. You use this process when all else has failed for a dispute between owners of a corporation or an LLC in California.