Fwd: Legal advice :)

[Sarah Clark]

Hi Team,

Turns out that my dad's best friend (Tim)'s brother (Harry) is a lawyer and I'm going to give him a call on Monday to discuss! 

Stay tuned,

Sarah

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sarah Clark <seac...@gmail.com>
Date: 4 September 2013 11:29
Subject: Re: Legal advice :)
To: Tim Gerrity <tger...@actsocal.org>
Cc: Harry Gerrity <hger...@socal.rr.com>

Dear Harry,

It's a pleasure to connect with you! And Tim, thank you so much for the introduction!

I'm sending you best wishes for your surgery today, and I'm looking forward to chatting on Monday. May I give you a ring at 2pm CA time?

To get the wheels turning, here's a little description of our needs: Myself and two other colleagues are building a strategic advisory consulting firm focused on food safety law and practices and we are 99% confident we would like to incorporate as an LLC. The consulting firm will have three members, one of which is not a US citizen. The non-US citizen lives in Virginia, one of the members lives in Mexico (but has a permanent address in California; this is me), and the third lives in Minnesota (but will likely be moving to DC). The company is virtual (there is no office), and our clients are international. 

I have several other questions, regarding liability insurance, where to set up a bank account, etc., but the location is the main issue for the time being. I know that Delaware is a popular option, but the benefits of incorporating there seem to mostly accrue to large corporations, and in addition to paying a registered agent in DE we would need to pay additional fees to register in the other states where we conduct our business from our home offices (i.e. VA, CA, etc.), no?

My colleagues and I would be happy to pay a fee to you or another lawyer you may recommend to guide us through this process. If you would recommend us moving forward in this way, what do you think would be the cost?

Thank you again and wishing you all the best!

Sarah

On 4 September 2013 11:03, Tim Gerrity <tger...@actsocal.org> wrote:

Hi Sarah,

I spoke with my brother and he'd be happy to talk with you, but it will have to wait until next Monday because he's having some outpatient surgery today that will put him out of commission until then.  You can call him Monday on his direct line at 818-702-9546.   I gave him a brief rundown of what you want to do.  I've copied him on this email so you might want to send him a little information, like you gave me, in advance.

Good luck!

Tim

  

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