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Practice Areas
The work we do, and why it matters.
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Core RelationshipGeneral Counsel
Senior legal judgment without the overhead.
Companies at the growth stage need senior legal judgment — but not always a full-time in-house team. Gravitas offers outside general counsel arrangements that give you a dedicated partner-level attorney embedded in your business, available when it matters.
We serve as the primary legal contact for all matters, coordinating specialists as needed and maintaining continuity across your legal risk profile. One relationship. One team. One standard.
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Monthly retainer general counsel engagements
Legal risk assessment and mitigation planning
Board and executive advisory
Vendor and partner contract oversight
Employment and HR legal support
IP portfolio management
Litigation management and oversight
02
Core RelationshipBusiness Law
Legal architecture for operators who move fast.
Business law at Gravitas is not document review. It is deal structure, risk architecture, and governance design for companies and operators who cannot afford to stop and wait for legal to catch up.
We work with founders, investors, and established businesses on everything from initial entity formation to complex multi-party transactions. If the deal requires outside general counsel who can hold a position at the table, we are built for that.
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Entity formation and corporate structure
Operating agreements and shareholder arrangements
M&A transactions and due diligence
Contract drafting and negotiation
Outside general counsel retainers
Regulatory compliance and licensing
Alternative Business Structure (ABS) formation
Practice Area
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Practice AreaReal Estate Law
From acquisition to exit — the full transaction.
Real estate is where legal precision and financial consequence meet most directly. Gravitas handles commercial acquisitions, development agreements, investment structures, and disposition transactions for operators who understand that the deal is only as clean as the documents behind it.
Our real estate practice integrates with our business and immigration capabilities — particularly for foreign investors navigating U.S. property ownership, EB-5 regional center structures, and cross-border real estate holding entities.
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Commercial purchase and sale agreements
Lease negotiation and landlord-tenant matters
1031 exchange structuring
Real estate joint ventures and LLCs
Title and closing representation
Foreign investment in U.S. real property (FIRPTA)
EB-5 real estate and regional center structures
04
Practice AreaEmployment Law
Protect the business. Protect the people in it.
Employment matters surface in every growing company — executive agreements, workforce compliance, non-compete disputes, wage and hour exposure. Most businesses handle employment law reactively. Gravitas clients handle it architecturally.
We counsel employers on workforce structure, draft agreements that hold up, and defend matters when they arise. Our employment practice works in lockstep with general counsel retainers so your exposure is known before it becomes a problem.
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Executive employment and compensation agreements
Non-compete, non-solicitation, and NDA enforcement
FLSA and wage and hour compliance
Employee handbooks and workplace policies
Wrongful termination and discrimination defense
Workforce restructuring and RIF guidance
Independent contractor classification analysis
05
Practice AreaImmigration
Cross-border movement for people who create value.
Immigration law at Gravitas centers on business mobility — investors, executives, founders, and the skilled professionals companies need to compete globally. We do not process paperwork. We build pathways.
Our immigration practice intersects directly with our business and real estate capabilities, giving clients a unified legal team for the full range of cross-border challenges a growing enterprise faces.
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EB-5 investor visas
E-1 and E-2 treaty investor and trader visas
L-1 intracompany transferee petitions
O-1 extraordinary ability visas
Employment-based preference categories (EB-1, EB-2, EB-3)
Business visitor and B-1 in lieu of H-1B
Consular processing and entry strategy
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Practice AreaEstate Planning & Wealth Transfer
What you build should outlast the moment you built it.
Business owners and investors encounter estate planning as a business problem long before it becomes a personal one. Succession, ownership transfer, cross-border asset protection, and trust structures that accommodate non-citizen spouses and foreign-held assets require counsel who understands the full picture.
Gravitas estate planning is not a product — it is a coordinated strategy across your business structure, immigration status, real estate holdings, and family objectives. We build it once. We build it to last.
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Revocable and irrevocable trust structures
Business succession planning
QTIP and QDOT trusts for non-citizen spouses
Foreign asset reporting (FBAR, FATCA compliance)
Powers of attorney and advance directives
Charitable giving and foundation structures
Cross-border estate and inheritance planning
Specialist Practice
07
Specialist PracticeTariff & Trade Recovery
The government collected it. We recover it.
Importers operating during the Section 301 and Section 232 tariff regimes paid billions in duties that were either improperly assessed, eligible for exclusion, or recoverable through administrative action. The statute of limitations is real. The window is closing.
Gravitas conducts forensic duty reviews across your import history, identifies recoverable amounts, and prosecutes claims before U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Court of International Trade. We work on a contingency structure for qualified matters — you pay when we recover.
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Section 301 exclusion refund claims
Tariff classification disputes and protests
First sale valuation adjustments
Antidumping and countervailing duty defense
CBP ruling requests and binding guidance
Trade agreement preference optimization
Customs compliance audits
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Specialist PracticeFederal Regulatory & Administrative Law
Navigate the agency. Control the outcome.
Federal agencies regulate commerce, imports, exports, sanctions, and professional licensing with authority that reaches every business operating across U.S. borders. Most companies discover this exposure after it becomes a problem. Gravitas clients know their regulatory posture before enforcement does.
With active standing before the U.S. Court of International Trade and federal district courts, we handle the full range of agency matters — from CBP and OFAC through administrative appeals and federal court review when agencies get it wrong.
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CBP penalty mitigation and prior disclosure
OFAC sanctions compliance and licensing
Export control (EAR and ITAR) compliance
Federal agency investigation response
Administrative appeals and agency adjudication
Federal court review of agency action
Professional and business licensing matters
Your matter is not standard.
Neither is our approach to it.