Stephanie C. Blair

Stephanie Blair practices business and real estate transactional law, and focuses on advising clients and helping them achieve their business goals.
Ms. Blair has extensive experience forming limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and corporations in California and Delaware. Her business transactional experience covers a wide breadth of matters, including the addition and withdrawal of members to partnerships, transferring interests under Buy-Sell Agreements, company conversions such as a corporation converting to an LLC, securities filings, and leasing equipment. She has also assisted clients in negotiating the sale of businesses.
Ms. Blair is highly skilled in drafting complex contractual agreements, such as indemnification agreements, employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, and settlement agreements. In particular, she has drafted many executive compensation agreements which require knowledge of Internal Revenue Code Section 409A, a complicated statute that relates to deferred compensation.
Ms. Blair has a great deal of real estate transactional experience; has drafted numerous commercial and residential leases, purchase and sale agreements, letters of intent, easements, deeds, deeds of trust, and secured promissory notes. She helps clients negotiate the terms of leases and purchase agreements and has experience with the subdivision map act, code enforcement, Administrative Certificates of Compliance, and possesses an expertise in real estate disclosures. Ms. Blair also has widespread knowledge of real property reassessment under Proposition 13.
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(Also Of Counsel, Intellectual Property Law Group LLP, San Jose)