Legal strategy
designed to fit.
Built to last.
Gofer Law PLLC is a boutique firm devoted to strategic legal planning for business owners, real estate investors, and families with complex interests — frameworks grounded in foresight, careful structure, and long-term protection.
I. Strategy
Every matter begins with the whole picture — your business, your properties, your family — before a single document is drafted.
II. Structure
Entities, trusts, and agreements engineered to reduce risk, preserve control, and hold up under real-world pressure.
III. Freedom
When your legal foundation is sound, you can focus on what's next instead of what could go wrong.
Strategic counsel across every dimension of your life and business.
Most firms handle matters in isolation. We practice at the intersections — where your real estate touches your entities, your entities touch your estate plan, and your plan touches the next generation.
Commercial & Residential Real Estate
Purchases, sales, and refinances from contract through closing — including investment acquisitions, development, leasing, financing, and 1031 exchanges.
Asset Protection & Trust Planning
Layered protection built before you need it — LLC structuring, domestic trusts, and creditor-aware planning under New York law.
Business Law
Entity formation, operating agreements, acquisitions, joint ventures, contracts, and the governance that keeps partners aligned.
Foreign Investor Representation
End-to-end guidance for international clients in U.S. real estate — ownership structuring, FIRPTA, estate-tax exposure, and treaty considerations.
Institutional and Hard-Money Lender Representation
Loan documentation, security instruments, and risk-aware structures that protect lenders from term sheet through payoff — or workout.
Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning
Wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney, and health care directives — coordinated with your business and real estate holdings, not drafted around them.
Business Succession Planning
Buy-sell agreements, ownership transition structures, and exit planning that move a business to the next generation — or the next owner — without disruption or dispute.
Special Situations & Solutions
When the matter doesn't fit a category — multi-party disputes, complex workouts, unconventional structures — we design the path that does.
Beyond legal advice. Strategic structures. Stronger outcomes.
Business decisions, real estate ownership, and family arrangements are deeply intertwined — so we address them as a whole, never as separate parts. Every framework we design anticipates risk, preserves control, and supports continuity as businesses grow, assets evolve, and circumstances change.
Build it. Grow it. Protect it. Formation, agreements, and deal structures that anticipate growth, partners, and exit.
Structure it. Shield it. Preserve it. Ownership engineered so a problem in one place doesn't become a problem everywhere.
Provide today. Protect tomorrow. Plan for generations. Estate plans that carry your intentions — and your values — forward.
A deliberate process, from first call to closed file.
Understand
A focused consultation to map your goals, your holdings, and where the real risks live — before we recommend anything.
Strategize
We design the structure: the entities, trusts, contracts, or deal terms that fit your situation, with the trade-offs explained plainly.
Implement
Drafting, negotiation, due diligence, and closing — handled with the precision of a firm that does this every day.
Adapt
Laws change, families grow, deals evolve. Your plan is reviewed and adjusted so it keeps working as life moves.
Gofer Law PLLC
Boutique Counsel — New YorkWe see the big picture so you can move forward with confidence.
Gofer Law PLLC is a boutique New York firm built around a simple observation: the clients who need counsel most are the ones whose business, real estate, and family interests are deeply intertwined — and most firms only see one piece at a time.
The practice spans residential and commercial real estate transactions, entity formation and business counsel, asset protection, and trusts & estates. The firm regularly serves as settlement counsel at the closing table and advises international investors navigating U.S. real estate ownership, tax exposure, and cross-border structuring.
The firm's approach is deliberate and comprehensive — addressing both immediate needs and the challenges that arise as businesses grow, assets evolve, and family circumstances change.
Work With the FirmWhat clients ask before they call.
Straight answers to the questions we hear most. If yours isn't here, the consultation is the place to ask it.
The responses below are general information, not legal advice for your situation. Every matter turns on its own facts — which is exactly why we start with a conversation.
Q.1Do I really need an attorney for a real estate closing in New York?
In New York, attorneys customarily handle residential and commercial closings — and for good reason. The contract of sale, title review, financing documents, and closing adjustments each contain terms that can cost or save you significantly. Having counsel who reviews the deal before you sign, not after a problem surfaces, is the least expensive insurance in the transaction.
Q.2When is the right time to think about asset protection?
Before you need it. Structures put in place after a claim arises can be challenged or unwound. The right time is when things are going well — when you acquire property, start a business, take on partners, or your net worth begins to concentrate in assets a creditor could reach.
Q.3Should each investment property have its own LLC?
Often, yes — isolating each property limits how far a liability can spread. But the right answer depends on the value of each asset, financing requirements, management practicality, and cost. We design holding structures that balance protection against complexity, rather than defaulting to one-size-fits-all.
Q.4I'm a foreign investor. What should I know before buying U.S. real estate?
How you take title matters enormously. Direct ownership can expose a non-U.S. person to U.S. estate tax and FIRPTA withholding on sale, while the right entity or trust structure — chosen with your home-country tax treatment and any applicable treaty in mind — can dramatically change the result. Structure first; buy second.
Q.5What happens at the first consultation?
We listen first. You'll walk through your situation, your goals, and any deadlines; we'll identify the legal issues, outline the options, and give you a candid view of the path forward. You leave knowing exactly what we'd recommend and why — whether or not you engage us.
Q.6What does "integrated planning" actually mean in practice?
It means we never look at one document in isolation. When you buy a property, we ask how it should be owned in light of your business, your other assets, and your estate plan. When you form an entity, we ask who inherits control of it. The pieces are designed to reinforce each other — so a decision made today doesn't quietly undermine a plan made last year.
Q.7Do you work with clients outside New York?
Yes. While the practice is grounded in New York law, we regularly represent out-of-state and international clients — including foreign investors acquiring U.S. real estate — and coordinate with local counsel, accountants, and advisors in other jurisdictions when a matter requires it.
The best structures are built before they're tested.
Whether you're closing a deal next month or planning for the next generation, the first step is the same: a focused conversation about where you are and where you're going.
Reach the firm.
Based in Airmont, New York — serving Rockland County, the Hudson Valley, the New York metropolitan area, and clients abroad.
Airmont, NY 10952By appointment