Business Assets
Your Business’ Digital Assets
As many of your business’ records and accounts are stored or accessed electronically, it is increasingly important to not only inventory, secure and protect these assets, but to enable your business or its successor to access them. Some steps to take include:...
November Business Bytes
This month’s Business Bytes highlighs reservation of rights, avoiding hack attacks and workplace satefy. Reservation of Rights. While most states require your liability insurance carrier to defend you even if there is just an arguably covered claim alleged,...
Trademarks
A trademark is a legally protected, non-generic, unique and distinctive name, symbol, letter, word, mark, slogan, phrase, smell, color, sound or hologram that can be owned to identify your business, products or services. It identifies and distinguishes your business...
Eric Wilen named President of the DuPage County Estate Planning Council
Eric Wilen will be the President of the DuPage County Estate Planning Council for the 2022-2023 season. Eric has been an active member and past 20 years has coordinated the Council’s annual DuPage County Chancery Judges Panel. The Council is a professional...
What is the Difference Between Creditor Workouts and Bankruptcy?
Unfortunately, many businesses are confronted with extraordinary losses and may be forced to choose between a creditor workout or a reorganization bankruptcy in order to survive. Some of the differences between workouts and bankruptcies include. Timing. A creditor...
Avoiding Personal Risk From Your Business
Operating your business as a limited liability entity generally protects your personal assets from claims of business creditors, but the informal operation of small to mid-sized and family-owned businesses can sometimes weaken that protection when things go bad,...
Asset Protection Planning
Asset protection planning is taking proactive steps to protect your personal or business assets and income before there is a legitimate threat or claim against you or your business. This is not giving away or transferring your assets to other parties, that carries its...
Supply Chain and Related Issues
Manufacturing delays, transportation shortages and overall supply chain issues caused problems for many businesses from manufacturing to retail. These situations outside of your control can also result in further problems for your business if you fail to supply,...
Valuing a Small Business for Sale
When the owner or owners of a closely held small business decide its time to sell or are approached by a potential buyer, the first order of business should be determining the business’ value or the value of the selling owners’ interest. Innumerable factors are...
Estate Planning is Tax Efficiency and Wealth Management
To many people estate planning is merely preparing a will to tell your executor what to do with what you own when you die. But, estate planning is more than just drafting a will. It includes tax efficiencies, wealth preservation, asset protection, efficient asset...
