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New York, NY – January 9, 2015 – Press Release – Marc J. Ross is a leading authority involving the issues surrounding the marijuana legalization debate and the developing, yet still conflicting, laws across the U.S. concerning marijuana and marijuana-related businesses.

Stock options are a popular method of providing executive compensation for start-up or young companies.  They don’t cost the company any cash and they give the employees an incentive to make the company succeed.  But stock options come in different forms, and the form you choose can have a big impact on the tax consequences…

Memorandum: Atalese v. U.S. Legal Servs. Group December 4, 2014: In Atalese v. U.S. Legal Servs. Group, the Supreme Court of New Jersey recently held an arbitration clause unenforceable where the provision did not contain an express waiver of the consumer’s right to sue in court.  The Court found that,

Introduction The resolution of tension between two desires of a subset of powerful investors—to sell, and to govern well—is the impetus behind the affiliate sale provisions as drafted in the amended Rule 144. Rule 144 is the main avenue open to affiliates to sell un-registered securities in the public market. An “affiliate” of an issuer…

Entrepreneurs often choose limited liability companies to incubate their businesses. An LLC offers a simple entity structure, it lets the members claim start-up losses on their own tax returns, and it eliminates the double tax imposed on a corporate structure once the venture turns profitable. But an LLC has a tax defect that its owners…