GVM Law

GVM Law, LLP

“The firm specializes in trusts and estates, wine, business, including business sales, real estate, taxation, litigation and employment and labor laws.”

This year’s Best Company to Do Business With In Napa County goes to GVM Law, LLP. For more than 40 years, GVM has been serving California’s winery, vineyard, farm and business owners. It’s a group of trusted advisors, dedicated to providing first-class service to their clients while creating lifelong friendships along the way.

GVM creates a comfortable environment for its clients that fosters open communication and consistently challenges them to think differently. The firm specializes in trusts and estates, wine, business, including business sales, real estate, taxation, litigation and employment and labor laws. GVM’s attorneys have a wide range of experience representing the leading wineries, vineyards and suppliers throughout California and are dedicated to helping individuals and families pass assets and investments from one generation to another in a way that matches the desires and personal values of their clients. These clients value GVM’s focus on preserving and protecting families and their assets.

Whether clients want to negotiate with distributors, address labor issues or pass along the business, GVM can help meet their needs. Business attorneys provide top-quality representation for their clients. They’re highly skilled in entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, drafting and reviewing, buy-sell, shareholder, operating and partnership agreements. GVM’s deep understanding of local and regional businesses allows them to craft services to their clients’ specific challenges and needs. The firm offers a depth of experience in agricultural and other real estate matters, including acquisitions, financing, leasing and sale transactions. The question for GVM is not whether to make the deal work; it’s how to make it work quickly, efficiently and in a way that makes the most business sense.

GVM works together with accountants, real estate brokers, bankers, investment advisors, and other intricate positions to get the job done and provides tax planning and advisory services to clients to complement other areas of advice. Its litigators work hand-in-hand with their estate and business departments to provide necessary insight and support to address all disputes in order to achieve resolutions for their clients. In addition, its litigators offer proactive review of internal business operations to minimize potential liabilities and ensure agreement with applicable employment and labor laws. GVM offers proactive employment and labor law counseling to minimize business liabilities by offering workplace audits and or assist with workplace investigations as well as provide updated compliance training. GVM also provides general counsel service customized to each client’s specialized business.

Because of the client-friendly way that GVM approaches legal issues, the readers of NorthBay Biz magazine voted GVM Law as the Best Company to Do Business With In Napa County.