Tom Bird Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Serving as outside general counsel for businesses of all sizes, to address their legal needs without incurring the expense of a full-time, in-house attorney. • Working with clients in structuring entities and transactions to achieve their objectives.• Representing businesses and shareholders in resolving family disputes. • Representing closely held businesses in the purchase or sale of their business.• Negotiating and drafting merger and acquisition documents.• Advising privately held corporations on succession planning for the transfer of their business to successive generations of owners and managers.• Working with teams of advisors to facilitate the orderly transfer of family businesses in a tax-efficient manner. • Representing family businesses in the negotiation and implementation of buy-sell agreements.• Drafting formation documents for corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies.• Representing clients selling their business to an ESOP, providing for business succession and employee ownership.• Advising individuals and their companies in complex tax planning strategies.• Designing estate plans for business owners and coordinating implementation with their business planning.

Eden Prairie, Mn

An attorney for over 30 years, Tom Bird’s practice has focused on commercial and tax law, including business law, business succession planning for family owned businesses, estate planning, and income tax planning for corporations, partnerships, individuals, trusts and estates. A graduate of the University of South Dakota Law School and Boston University School of Law, Tom is a member of the American Bar Association, the Minnesota Bar Association, and the Hennepin County Bar Association. Tom has been serving SUPERVALU retailers since 1997 at Thomas L. Bird & Associates, P.A. Tom provides extensive knowledge and expertise to a wide variety of supermarket retailers. Tom is regular speaker before a variety of groups, including the National Grocer’s Association and SUPERVALU seminars for supermarket retailers, retail accounting managers, area marketing directors, and retail business consultants. Prior to 1997, Tom served as Director of Business Succession and Estate Planning at SUPERVALU and provided business, income and estate taxation as well as business succession planning services to retailers.

Tom served as Director of Business Succession and Estate Planning at SUPERVALU and provided business, income and estate taxation as well as business succession planning services to retailers.

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