Loading
RB![]()
author
Richard Burt
Richard Burt provides new businesses and established enterprises with high-quality legal services, including forming corporations, partnerships, and LLC’s, negotiating and drafting...view moreRichard Burt provides new businesses and established enterprises with high-quality legal services, including forming corporations, partnerships, and LLC’s, negotiating and drafting contracts, agreements, leases, and legal instruments, and advising clients on a wide range of business law issues. His typical clients are founders of closely-held businesses, corporate executives, real estate investors, and professionals, such as lawyers, architects, and physicians. Mr. Burt serves as outside general counsel for a number of closely-held companies, many of which are in San Jose and other cities in Santa Clara County (also known as Silicon Valley). Because of his in-depth knowledge and analytical ability concerning business law matters, he is frequently consulted by litigators and other lawyers.
Mr. Burt has been rated by Martindale-Hubbell as “AV Preeminent,” the highest possible rating. For more information about the Martindale-Hubbell rating system, click on the tab for “Peer Review Rating.”
Mr. Burt has extensive experience in the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of corporations, partnerships, and LLC’s, in drafting contracts of various kinds, including leasing, manufacturing, distribution, and service agreements, and in real estate and business transactions, including purchase and sale of a business, mergers and acquisitions, buy-sell agreements between co-owners, and purchase, financing, leasing, and sale of real property.
Mr. Burt has served three terms on the Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies Committee and two terms on the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California. He has also served on the executive committees of the Business Law section and of the Real Property section of the Santa Clara County Bar Association.
Mr. Burt is a frequent lecturer on business law topics, and he has authored a number of articles and book chapters on business law topics. Mr. Burt has also testified as an expert witness on business law matters.
Mr. Burt was graduated with honors from George Washington University in 1973 with a Juris Doctor degree. He was awarded membership in the honor society, Order of the Coif, and he was a member of the editorial staff of the George Washington Law Review. Mr. Burt was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.view less