Sentry Hill Legal works with you each step of the way.

 

Start-ups & Enterprise Planning

You have a great idea for a product or service that fills a gap in the market. Now what? You need to define your product or idea, secure financing, hire talent, and focus on selling your products and services. Sentry Hill Legal work with you each step of the way: developing a business plan and securing financing, negotiating strategic relationships with outside advisors and investors, partners, and employees, and managing contracts. At Sentry Hill Legal, we want to understand your goals and the needs of your business to create a custom solution.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Whether you are exploring the sale of your business or are looking to grow through a merger, acquisition or strategic joint venture, each potential transaction should be specifically tailored to your needs. At Sentry Hill Legal, we will work with you to evaluate your options whether they relate to a sale or purchase of stock, assets or a combination of both. Sentry Hill Legal can also guide you to evaluate and maximize strategic and operational synergies relating to domestic (U.S.) or international transactions.

Family Office Planning

As business advisor and general counsel to families and their family offices, Sentry Hill Legal will work with you to structure a family office for the current generation and beyond. And whether it is a virtual office or brick and mortar space, we will work with you to determine operational strategies, investment policies, family constitutions and coordination of fiduciaries, as well as align benefits to beneficiaries and minimize potential conflicts. Sentry Hill Legal has served family offices through some of the following projects: 

  • Forming and maintaining family office holding company and various subsidiaries that will hold diverse operating and passive assets, and oversee optimization of family business operating model

  • Structuring family acquisition, operation and resale of private jets and yachts for personal and business use (e.g., represented high-net-worth individual in financing and operating 26.9 million euros purchase of a Dassault Falcon aircraft)

  • Advising on family structure, tax planning and risk exposure into private equity, hedge fund and venture capital investments (e.g., Cayman Island and US Domestic Feeder Fund investment)

  • Acquisition and maintenance of Intellectual Property (“IP”)

  • Structure art collection owned by French wine family to utilize value of art as collateral for US and non-US investments

  • Worked with family members to create a single family office with US$1.6B in AUM to invest program-related investments of private foundation into direct equity, loan and credit facilities and volume guarantees into private and publicly traded companies

Taxation

Sentry HIll Legal provides a range of tax services to individuals (U.S., expatriates, and foreign nationals), businesses, and non-profit organizations. These services include: tax planning, tax consulting, tax compliance, tax litigation, and international tax planning. Sentry Hill Legal's areas of focus include:

  • Designing business plans, negotiating agreements, structuring transactions, and advising on end-of-year planning to maximize tax benefits and minimize the tax impacts on your business and you personally

  • Partnering with your accountant and bookkeeper to organize and perform end-of-year financial reporting and tax compliance

  • Assisting with foreign bank account and foreign financial reporting (FATCA and FBAR)

  • Advised client CEO on structuring compensation package consisting of incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified alternative deferred compensation

Real Estate

Sentry Hill Legal's deep experience advising owners and managers of residential, commercial and mixed-use properties, means that whether you are purchasing your first home, contemplating a commercial lease, or negotiating a like-kind exchange, Sentry Hill Legal can assist with your real estate needs. Sentry Hill Legal's services include due diligence and research, initial offering submission, negotiation of the purchase and sale agreement, and completing the closing.

Outside General Counsel

It is increasingly complicated to run and effectively manage a business. We bring our unique perspective from having owned and managed businesses to the advice and solutions that we will develop and implement with you. Our team wants to understand your business and help you improve operational efficiency with a focus on identifying business and legal exposure, so that you can proactively minimize risk rather than simply reacting to problems. You don’t have to be facing a lawsuit to benefit from the advice of an attorney. Deciding whether to hire employees vs. contractors, purchase real estate or lease it, and how to secure access to capital — many decisions have both short-term and long-term implications for your business. Sentry Hill Legal can help you assess options before moving forward.

We take the time to understand your goals and the needs of your business to create a custom solution.