Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Schwartz serves as counsel to various participants in the hedge fund industry, including offshore mutual funds, hedge funds, funds-of-funds, fund administrators, fund sponsors, private investors, independent asset management firms and financial institutions. We organize private investment funds, unit trusts, SICAVs and similar investment products for offer offshore, in foreign markets or in the We provide tax, corporate and securities advice to their sponsors. Private investment funds are at the core of our securities practice.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Our knowledge of U.S. corporate and tax laws, foreign laws and foreign languages makes us uniquely suited to understanding the concerns of foreign businesses and helping them to understand the U.S. market. Foreign businesses face unique tax and legal issues that are not always familiar to their U.S. partners or business counterparties. We advise foreign companies on a broad range of business and legal matters, including organizing U.S. subsidiaries, negotiating and preparing distribution or sales representation agreements, joint-venture agreements, shareholders agreements and other corporate and commercial agreements. We also represent foreign buyers and sellers of U.S. businesses (see prior section on Mergers and Acquisitions).
• Business Disputes
  Perspectives on Private Equity & Emerging Markets, panelist at conference Sponsored by The Cardozo Business Law Society of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, March 26, 2008;
• Limited Liability Companies
  A Schwartz Law Firm também é conhecida por seu conhecimento na constituição de entidades “pass-through” nos EUA, para investimentos internos ou externos, incluindo limited liability companies ( LLC s) e limited partnership ( LP s) formadas em Delaware ou em Nevada ou no exterior.

Property Law

• Real Estate Transactions
  Through our close working relationship with some of the world’s preeminent international tax and trusts and estates practitioners, we can arrange for high net worth clients to obtain access to carefully tailored personal legal advice. Schwartz LLC can provide individual clients with access to offshore company formation and trust management services in all major jurisdictions through our correspondent firms. We can also arrange for advice on personal real estate transactions, yacht and aircraft purchases, charitable activities and non-profit institutions.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  An important part of our practice is the representation of active and retired executives and founders of corporations referred to us by the law firms representing those corporations, as well as their family members, heirs, or investment offices. We also serve as counsel on private investments for select U.S. and non-U.S. clients of trust companies, private wealth managers, and estate planning lawyers serving U.S. and non-U.S. families.
• Trusts

Finance Law

• Tax Law
  Schwartz LLC is actively engaged in advising foreign and domestic corporations and investors on a range of U.S. tax matters. We work closely with several pre-eminent independent international tax advisers to ensure that clients use optimal investment structures.