STEPHENSON FOURNIER - Key Persons
Alison Bloom brings a deep-seated work ethic to representing clients and working with them to achieve their goals. Alison's post-graduate master of laws degree in taxation along with her background in tax accounting enable her to provide strategic advice and to identify issues and opportunities for clients. She excels at working with clients from the ground floor up, taking the time to get to know their businesses and developing creative solutions to help them achieve their objectives. Alison invests time and energy into forging close relationships with clients and finding ways to help their businesses thrive and achieve their goals.
Alison Bloom is an experienced attorney whose practice focuses on business transactions, estate planning & probate, and optimization of business structures for tax and business law. She is board certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law in Texas and is dedicated to assisting clients to achieve their estate planning goals. Alison assists clients with tax and succession planning, using her experience and knowledge gained from a post-graduate master of laws degree in taxation. Many of her clients are international businesses seeking tax and entity advice as they expand into the US market. Additionally, Alison is an experienced business lawyer who assists clients with corporate and entity matters from choice of entity and organization, acquisitions and divestitures, business contracts, and equity transactions up and down the cap table.
Education
University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas
As an emerging attorney in the field of commercial real estate, Amy Henson brings a fresh perspective and unwavering dedication to providing exceptional legal services to clients in Houston and beyond. With a focus on commercial real estate and trademark law, Amy offers comprehensive legal assistance to tenants, landlords, developers, entrepreneurs and investors.
Benjamin Kapilivsky, an associate at the firm, practices a broad range of general corporate matters, business transactions, and commercial real estate transactions. He advises clients on entity formation, corporate governance, contract drafting and negotiation, leasing, purchase and sale agreements, and mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Hanno handles a wide range of real estate and business transactions, including acquisitions, development, financing, and the disposition of retail, multi-family and office properties. He represents commercial landlords and tenants in all areas of retail and office leasing. Chris also advises clients with regard to the formation and structure of business entities, equipment financing, the purchase and sale of businesses, financing, borrowing and commercial lending, mergers and reorganizations, and other contractual agreements.
Founder James F. Stephenson Jr. is a highly experienced business and commercial transaction attorney and real estate lawyer whose advice to clients is enhanced by his depth of experience in tax planning.
Juli Fournier, our managing partner, represents clients in a broad range of corporate and general business law and finance matters. Her experience includes mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of operating businesses, private offerings of securities, financings and loan transactions, and structuring and re-structuring of various businesses including corporations, limited liability companies and general and limited partnerships. She advises clients regarding partnerships and joint ventures, loan agreements, non-competition covenants, employment relationships, pledge agreements, shareholder agreements, security, escrow, guaranty and complex merger agreements, settlement agreements, promissory notes, secured financings including equipment finance, and many other types of business contracts. Ms. Fournier also represents a variety of non-profit organizations.
Michael Cohodes is a Houston native who prides himself on dependability, communication and trust, which makes him an asset to a broad range of clients. His background in real estate combined with his experience working with large and small companies give him a unique perspective that translates into success, regardless of the size of a transaction. Michael has a rare ability to develop strong relationships with people from all backgrounds and to provide understanding for many legal unique issues. As an approachable young practitioner, Michael is a passionate advocate providing sound legal advice and dedicated to achieving the best results in each transaction.