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Legal and Tax Planning for Start-up Entrepreneurs

Saturday, August 11, 2007 from 2:30 PM to 2:30 PM (PT)

Santa Clara , CA

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SVIBA Entrepreneur Center Event: Legal and Tax Planning for Start-up Entrepreneurs

Time: 2:30 PM -4:30 PM, August 11 (Saturday), 2007

Location: 3777 Stevens Creek Blvd. Suite #210
Santa Clara , CA 95051

RSVP: please email at sviba_event@ yahoo.com, subject: “Legal and tax seminar”. RSVP only, no walk-ins, please.

Section I: Avoid Legal Pitfalls and Plan for Success in Global Economy

For start-ups in both high-technology and traditional industries, preventive and strategic legal planning is crucial to success. Too many business fail not because of lack of competitive advantage, but due to legal pitfalls such as contract loop holes, employee lawsuit! s, share holder lawsuits, unfair competition, and intellectual property misappropriation and infringement.

To promote entrepreneurship and enhance competitiveness, Silicon Valley Information Business Alliance (http://www.sviba.org) is pleased to present this seminar featuring Attorney James Cai from Schein & Cai LLP (http://www.sacattorneys. com). The seminar will cover the areas of corporate formation and governance structure, key commercial contract terms, employment issues, intellectual property portfolio management and enforcement, and venture financing.

Mr. Cai is the founder of Schein & Cai LLP, a business law firm focusing on corporate and business transactions, intellectual property, and civil litigation with offices in Silicon Valley, Virginia, Shanghai and Taipei (in affiliation with Info Law Office). Most of the law firm’s clients are in the areas of software, wireless technology, semiconductor, internet, solar technology, business consulting and traditional industries.

Prior to founding Schein & Cai LLP, Mr. Cai was an in-house counsel for Yahoo! Inc. and practiced law with international law firms of Morrison & Foerster LLP and Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP (now known as DLA Piper Rudnick). Mr. Cai is licensed to practice in California and in front of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Section II: Grasp the basic idea of business taxation - a business owner oriented tax seminar

A start-up entrepreneur who is facing many complex tax questions from your day to day operations.

SVIBA Entrepreneur Center has invited our year-long tax expert for: Mr. Bin Zhai, CPA, CFP from Zhai & Wang, LLP, to hold a business owner oriented tax seminar to help our members grasp basic idea of business taxation.

In this year, Zhai & Wang, LLP’s seminar will concentrate on small business or start-up business owner.

> Individual tax reporting tips

> Avoid double taxation: S Corporation & LLC

> The Pros and Cons of S Corporation

> Can Business deduct my out of pocket expenses?

> Legally construct “Less than arms length” transaction by the same business owner

> How to report sales of home that is used for business.

> Convert you asset into business tax free

> Fringe benefit, qualified plan, executive pay structure design

> Avoid tax audit: compliance and record keeping

Zhai & Wang, LLP (http://www.zwllp.com) is a Silicon Valley based tax, accounting and financial advisory related professional service firm. It specializes in small and mid-size company’s accounting, tax return preparation, tax planning, and financial statement compilation, review and auditing. No matter it is for helping start-ups acquire venture funding, bank loan or rendering continuous controllership advisory service, Zhai & Wang, LLP has extensive experience in the areas. With strong knowledge in tax planning and systematic approaches in financial planning, Zhai & Wang, LLP enhances its clients’ high net worth through well design practices like wealth accumulation, assets protection, tax avoidance and financial advisory.

Bin Zhai, CPA, CFP^TM, MBA, Partner: A ten-year practitioner helping dozens of small companies from startup to growth. Mr. Zhai specializes in tax planning and preparation; accounting financial statement preparation, review and auditing. He also provides fee-only financial planning services to the needing clients. He starts his career in public accounting firms in California , including working with Mohler, Nixon and Williams, ranking as the fifth largest accounting firm in the Silicon Valley . Bin Zhai received his bachelor's degree in Accounting in 1989 from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in China , and earned his MBA degree concentration on Accountancy from California State University , Fullerton in 1993.

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