Criminal Law

• Internet Crimes

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  The “Delaware Startup Package” provides Delaware corporate formation documents and agreements to position your business for private equity financing. This Package includes...
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  We help companies and owners who wish to purchase or sell their assets or ownership interests by helping them structure the deals, draft and negotiate the appropriate documentation and negotiate and draft funding documents. We also assist in the planning, structuring and implementation of other forms of corporate reorganization, such as mergers and dissolutions.
• Business Disputes
  Safford & Baker PLLC is a business law firm based in Troy, Michigan. With over 70 years of combined business counseling experience, the firm’s members, Randy Safford and Don Baker, started the firm in 2000 to focus on helping start-ups in the technology space. They have since served scores of entrepreneurs in primarily Southeast Michigan, and remain committed to representing early stage businesses and their owners. Safford & Baker also acts as general counsel to small to mid-size businesses of all kinds.
• Business Transactions
  DONALD H. BAKER JR. is a founding member of Safford & Baker. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Don has been practicing law in North Carolina and Michigan since 1983 and 1987 respectively. After receiving his undergrad degree from the University of North Carolina and his law degree from the University of Michigan, Don began his legal career as a law clerk to Honorable James Dickson Phillips, Jr., United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Don practices in the areas of general business law, commercial transactions, and taxation, with a focus on venture capital/capital formation, publishing, copyright, and computer law.
• Limited Liability Companies
  We structure and form corporations, limited liability companies, and other types of business entities, as well as prepare the proper documentation for these entities, including corporate bylaws, shareholder buy-sell agreements, limited liability company operating agreements and other governance, funding and related agreements and documentation.

Property Law

• Land Use and Zoning
• Condominium Law

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  We offer a complete array of estate planning services, often on a fixed-fee basis. This includes advice and consultation regarding appropriate plans and documentation depending on client circumstances and need, drafting the necessary documents (wills, trusts, powers of attorney, designation of patient advocates) and, if requested, funding and asset transfer.
• Wills
• Trusts
  We offer comprehensive estate and trust administration services, including advising and assisting trustees and probate personal representatives in collecting and preserving trust and estate assets; preparing and filing required court and tax returns; preparing, filing and serving estate and trust accountings and reports; resolving creditor claims; preparing and filing personal and fiduciary income tax returns; and handling the distribution of estate and trust assets. We can also handle estate and trust litigation which may arise in the course of administration.
• Power of Attorney
• Probate

Finance Law

• Tax Law
  We design and implement clearly-defined agreements for businesses with personal and/or family shareholder and owner relationships, while providing succession and tax planning services to help maximize the benefits of ownership and minimize taxes on future generations.