Business & Tax Law
Let’s be clear.
Our objective is to reduce costs.
That means preventing losses and getting the best outcome as quickly as possible to reduce your liability and legal fees.
Put our decades of litigation experience to work for you.
- Business contract disputes, including breach of contract and fiduciary duty
- Corporate governance disputes
- Business dissolution
- Intellectual property litigation
- Disputes over restrictive clauses and covenants not to compete
- Claims involving allegations of fraud
- Real estate disputes, including easement and land disputes
Make contracts and transactions work in your favor.
- Operating agreements
- Partnership agreements
- Shareholder agreements
- Employment contracts (non-compete agreements, non-disclosure agreements, severance and executive compensation agreements)
- Licensing agreements
- Purchase and sale agreements
- Distribution contracts
- Intellectual property agreements
- Service and maintenance contracts
- Business mergers and acquisitions
- Real estate buy-sell agreements
- Commercial real estate and equipment leases
- Construction contracts
- Advise student athletes on their rights to receive compensation for the use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL) for commercial purposes.
- Assist and advise businesses with contracts to work with student athletes on the use of athletes’ names, image, and likeness (NIL) for commercial purposes.
Tax laws can be complicated. We make it simple.
- Individual, estate and business tax planning
- Strategic transactional structuring
- Tax collection issues
- Tax penalty abatements
- Tax liens
- Settlement agreements, offers and compromises
- Private letter rulings
- Opinion letters
- Determination letters
- 1031 like-kind exchanges
- IRS audits, tax controversies and litigation
- Montana Department of Revenue and Washington Revenue Department tax audits and tax litigation
- Section 42 Low-Income Housing Credits
Bankruptcy Law - Creditor Representation
IP protection
Real estate transactions, including leases
Banking and secured transactions
Property exchanges
Mergers and acquisitions
Taxable and non-taxable reorganizations
Business formation and business planning
Corporate governance
Corporate documentation
GLR Attorneys Practicing Business & Tax Law
Michael D. Bybee
Partner
Scott W. Farago
Partner
Michael H. Hekman
Partner
Tessa A. Keller
Partner
Robert C. Lukes
Partner
Alan F. McCormick
Partner
Brian J. Smith
Partner
Gary B. Chumrau
Of Counsel
Marti A. Liechty
Associate
Adam M. Taub
Associate
Scalable legal counsel
Use only what you need, when you need it. As your needs change, you’ve got a team of attorneys—in almost every area of law—ready to jump in as needed.