Practice Areas

Corporate Formation and Structuring

The Credere Law, located in Palo Alto, California, specialize in forming and structuring business entities, ranging from closely held corporations and limited liability companies to emerging growth companies destined for an IPO. Our business attorneys have one overriding objective: to understand our client’s business goals and then help to achieve them as effectively and efficiently as possible. Our expertise includes:

Advising on choice of entity, ownership and management structure
Preparation of formation and organizational documents, and shareholder and operating agreements
Optimizing entity structure in consultation with accounting and tax professionals
Advising on compensation arrangements — including stock options, performance-based bonus plans and other incentives — for principals, management and key employees

Non-profits (501c3)

Our team advises clients on the full life-cycle of a tax-exempt, 501c3 nonprofit organization –from formation, to obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status, to operational, governance and compliance matters, to corporate transactions and restructurings, and through dissolution, including:

Nonprofit formation, charitable registration, application for federal and state tax-exemption
Board duties and governance, including design of governance structures and board trainings
Conflict of interest management and counsel, including on potential self-dealing issues
501(c)(3) compliance, including operational test and consistent activities issues
Private foundation rules, including related to distributions, international activities, set-asides
Supporting organization issues
Mergers and acquisitions
Subsidiaries and joint ventures with commercial partners
Charitable solicitation, commercial co-ventures, and crowdfunding and other online fundraising issues
Dissolution and transfer of programs and remaining assets