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Of Counsel
Qualifications
Ms. Blair's law practice at Intellectual Property Law Group LLP is focused mainly on business transactions and real estate transactions. She has formed numerous 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, crafting special allocation provisions for partnerships, company conversions such as a corporation converting to an LLC, securities filings, leasing equipment, filing UCC Statements and Amendments, and managing the admission of investors to venture capital funds. She is highly skilled in drafting complex contractual agreements, such as indemnification agreements, employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, and settlement agreements. In particular, Ms. Blair has drafted many executive compensation agreements using her knowledge of Internal Revenue Code Section 409A, a complicated statute which relates to deferred compensation.
Some of Ms. Blair's corporate clients include those in the wine industry. She has drafted a Custom Winemaking and Bottling Agreement, a Multiple Year Grape Purchase Agreement, a Custom Crush Agreement, and a Certified Emission Reduction Agreement to sell allocated pollution rights. She has also created a standard form agreement for a vineyard management company, and a standard form agreement for a client providing machine grape picking services.
Ms. Blair also has a great deal of real estate transactional experience; she has drafted numerous commercial and residential leases, purchase and sale agreements, easements, CC&Rs, deeds, deeds of trust, and secured promissory notes. She has experience with the subdivision map act, code enforcement, Administrative Certificates of Compliance, and possess an expertise in real estate disclosures. Ms. Blair also has extensive knowledge of real property reassessment under Proposition 13. In one transaction she was able to help a client avoid a $6 Million dollar reassessment on a large parcel of mixed-use property.
Additionally, Ms. Blair provides clients with estate planning services, including the drafting of trust agreements, wills, and powers of attorney. In connection with helping her clients put together their estate plan, Ms. Blair counsels them on the management of their assets, whether personal property, real estate, joint tenancy property or community or separate property.
Ms. Blair enjoys counseling clients on all business and real estate transactional matters, and on their estate plan. She is known for her ability to clearly explain complex legal issues.
- Business Transactions
- Real Estate Transactions
- Estate Planning
- California State Bar, December 2006
- US District Court, Northern District of California, March 2007
- UC Hastings College of the Law, J.D., May 2006
- UC San Diego, B.A., March 2000
- Sonoma County Bar Association
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