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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 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
- 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
Contact the Gierach Law Firm to schedule a consultation. Let us help your business and your family toward a stable, successful financial future.
Our Latest Blog Posts
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Use of Powers of Attorney for Your Children Who Are Over 18
When your children go to college, they are generally at least 18 years of age. In Illinois, they are considered to be adults at that time. This means that you, as their parents, are not legally entitled to their school information which includes grades (despite the fact that you are footing the bill for the [...]
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When Should Owners Develop An Exit Strategy?
Many times an owner of a business, particularly a family owned business, will question when they should develop an exit strategy from that business. It may sound counterintuitive, but the time to develop the exit strategy is when you acquire or go into the business, not at a later point in time when you have [...]
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For the Love of the Land
Sometimes a person owns some acreage that they may have either purchased or inherited. This acreage is really special, as it is beautiful, natural or untouched. If you are that person, you may want to preserve its beauty and make sure that it does not just become another subdivision. What step can you take now [...]
