A Business Approach to Estate Matters

Sound Legal Advice • Experienced Representation • Premier Client Service

Your business is you: it reflects your personality, your values, your ideals, and your dreams. You nurture it from its inception and hope it will grow into the success you envisioned. Understandably, when you are looking for legal advice and representation in a business or financial matter, you want an attorney who has both legal and business acumen.

Founding attorney Denice Gierach has more than 30 years of legal and business experience. In addition to her law degree, she is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with a Masters degree in business management. These solid credentials were recognized when the Business Ledger named her one of twenty "Influential Women in Business" for 2008.

Clients across northern Illinois count on Ms. Gierach's practical business law advice and comprehensive understanding of financial matters, estates and tax law, to protect their business and family financial interests on a wide range of business and family concerns:

Business Law

Starting a new business

• Business tax planning
• Business contracts — negotiation, drafting and review
• Commercial real estate, including lease preparation and the purchase and sale of commercial buildings
• General counsel services for small and mid-sized businesses
• Business litigation, including partnership and shareholders disputes
• Buying or selling a business
• Business succession planning

Estate Planning

• Wills, trusts and complete estate planning
• Achieving your financial goals with trusts
• Minimizing the tax burden on yourself and your estate with tax planning
• Preparing for long-term care with Medicaid planning
• Leaving a legacy to your family and community with charitable giving
• Succession planning for family-owned businesses
• Probate and estate administration

Eminent Domain

Contact the Gierach Law Firm to schedule a consultation. Let us help your business and your family toward a stable, successful financial future.

Our Business is Helping You, Your Business, and Your Family