Balancing Risk
Paying taxes isn’t much fun. So it should come as no real surprise that smaller companies, including small hooch companies, regularly try to minimize their tax burdens. In fact, to do…
The Secret Ingredient
This past week, I had the opportunity to travel with the Bainbridge Island 14U boys’ water polo team (GO RAY!) to the 2016 Junior Olympics – held in and around…
Gotta Catch ’em All
I live with three minors – currently aged 7, 10 and 13. They are teetotalers. I am pleased with this arrangement. Their mother is equally pleased. And while I anticipate that…
Proof Positive
This past Saturday, I had the good pleasure to attend Proof, the annual tasting event sponsored by the Washington Distillers Guild. The event featured over forty distilleries – primarily from…
Planning your Exit
Recently, I spent some time preparing materials for a presentation at an upcoming Brewery & Distillery Law conference, where I’ll be speaking on formation and entity selection issues. The great…
Referendum
Unless you found yourself in a drunken stupor all of last week, you likely spent much of the week hearing, reading and wondering about Brexit – or the referendum put…
Enigma
As I write this, a large community of single-malt aficionados in the UK is sampling The Glenlivet Cipher, billed as the “world’s most mysterious whisky.” I know that they’re sampling…
Muddled
Since the repeal of prohibition, the regulation of alcohol in the United States has been a bit of a mess. In large part, that mess stems from one sentence: The…
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