AREAS OF PRACTICE
De Jager Law Corp has strategically developed its practice areas to meet the specific needs of its clients. We understand and appreciate that agriculture and agribusiness is our community’s backbone and our lawyers recognize the need to assist this industry, whenever possible. Like most of our practices, Agriculture law often crosses over to areas such as our business law and real estate law practices. Our experience in these legal areas allows us to properly handle multi-faceted challenges and gives us a unique position in the community; each practice area compliments another, ultimately benefitting our clients.
COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS
Our team is uniquely positioned to negotiate and structure business transactions by considering the legal, tax and business goals of clients. We work closely with clients to form new business entities, structuring and planning their business’s operations to accomplish tax and business goals.
BUSINESS ENTITY FORMATION
Building stable businesses is perhaps our greatest strength. A number of factors can affect a company’s posture, including the type of entity you choose for your business, how you structure a transaction, and the design of your business lending or borrowing activities. Our team can counsel you on the most tax-efficient business structures, memorialize the terms of your agreements and transactions, and guide you from proposal to closing. We also focus on advising tax-exempt organizations on formation, corporate governance and transactions, fields where we possess a unique breadth of experience. We utilized many different entity structures for our clients, including general partnerships, LLCs, LPs, and corporations (c-corp and s-corp).
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & COMPLIANCE
We advise companies and nonprofit organizations on the best practices in corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Companies use corporate governance and compliance to improve their business performance, save on costs, and respond to risk more effectively. For mergers and acquisitions (M&A) our firm assist clients through all stages of their transactions to ensure successful deal outcomes in stock sales and various asset purchases, corporate counseling, and other transactional matters, such as the purchase and sale of businesses, refinancing transactions, employment contracts, noncompete agreements, and private lending.
NON-PROFIT FORMATION
We focus on non-profit organizations, tax exemption matters, and those who are dedicated to working with non-profit organizations. We advise clients on the formation of a non-profit organization, to obtaining and maintain tax-exempt status, to operational, governance and compliance matters, and corporate transactions and restructurings.
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
We represent sellers and buyers of commercial, industrial, agricultural, and residential real estate. We provide guidance for real estate transactions and play a meaningful role in dealings that build significant value to for each party involved. We deliver a complete range of integrated legal services that are designed to achieve the best outcomes for our clients. Our work includes negotiation of design and construction agreements, formation of partnerships and limited liability companies, acquisitions and dispositions, leasing transactions, and providing related tax advice.
Much of our practice involves residential, commercial, and agricultural real estate transactions between private parties, including real estate contracts and escrow assistance, purchase and sale agreements, leases, lot line adjustments, easements, 1031 exchanges, and planning/gifting with real estate.
SUCCESSION PLANNING
Succession planning is a critical aspect of ensuring your company’s successful transition, whether your goal is to retain it within the family, or create and maximize the value of an exit strategy that may include a merger or disposition of the business. At De Jager Law Corp, our attorneys are experienced and skilled in succession planning and the generational transition of businesses.
Planning for changes in management or the direction of your company is often lost in the daily frenzy of operating a business. But a succession plan, developed and administered by an experienced succession planning lawyer is a fundamental building block of a well-run company. It is the foundation that enables you, your team, and your family to focus on running and growing the business with the certainty that the future course of the business is in place. This type of planning is complex. Ignoring the need, or doing it yourself without the counsel of an experienced succession planning attorney may place your assets and business at risk.
ESTATE PLANNING
We offer full service estate plans for our clients, from simple family plans to complex high-net-worth estates. We focus on asset protection with the use of trusts, prenuptial agreements, liability insurance, and statutory protection. We also assist clients with charitable gifting and transferring wealth to heirs and successors. Wealth transfer plans vary for each client, but often use inheritance, various trusts, and business succession plans to meet each client’s goals.
De Jager Law Corp is especially focused on limiting (or eliminating) adverse tax effects in these areas. We also emphasize the importance of incapacity/end-of-life planning for our clients by way of custom healthcare directives and durable power of attorney designations.
FIREARMS LAW & GUN TRUSTS
We understand every estate planning tool is designed to protect one’s legacy and gun trust is no exception. We provide flexibility, increased reliability regarding passing firearms to family, and confidentiality regarding the firearms owned by the trust.