Peter represents entrepreneurs and privately held companies at the intersection of their business and personal lives.
Peter Marmo, Marmo Law PLLC
Areas of Expertise
Tax
Peter maintains a broad tax practice, with an emphasis on partnership, S corporation, and international taxation. He regularly serves as outside tax counsel to other law firms on M&A and other business transactions.
Business Transactions
Peter assists privately held, entrepreneurial, and family businesses in day-to day corporate matters, transition planning, and M&A transactions.
Estate Planning
Peter’s estate planning practice is a natural outgrowth of his work advising privately-held businesses on tax and business matters. He assists entrepreneurs and family business in business transition planning, often combining his knowledge of income tax, corporate law, and estate and gift tax.
Experience
Peter began his career as a tax lawyer, and maintains a broad tax practice, including transactional and international tax. In his transactional practice, he has helped his clients start businesses, draft operating and shareholders' agreements, and buy and sell businesses with values ranging from $100,000 to $100,000,000.
He also serves as outside general counsel to a number of clients. Peter has extensive experience in helping clients transition businesses and assets to the next generation of family and employees. This planning work often combines estate planning, income tax, and business considerations. Peter speaks Spanish and is conversant in Portuguese and advises international families in their international estate and tax planning.
Prior to founding his own firm, Peter was a partner in a well-respected boutique firm focused on tax and transactional matters, and an associate in the tax practice of an international law firm. Peter is a frequent speaker on tax and corporate law matters.
Bio
When he's not practicing law, Peter enjoys exploring America's National Parks with his family, listening to and playing jazz, and discovering food from across the world in Houston's restaurant scene.
Harvard Law School, J.D. 2002
Rice University, B.A. 1998
Alexandra “Sasha” Vaikhman
Sasha Vaikhman assists in employment legal matters including drafting and reviewing employment agreements, severance and release agreements, and non-competition agreements. Sasha counsels clients on employment laws and best practices.
Experience
Sasha has been practicing law for over 20 years in Houston both at a major Texas law firm and at various corporations in their in-house legal departments. Motivated by her career-long interest in labor and employment, Sasha left the corporate world and started her own practice as a mediator and workplace investigator and refers to herself as the Mediation Maven. Sasha occasionally misses telling people what to do and is able to scratch that itch by assisting a limited number of clients with employment questions and contract preparation and review.
Bio
When not assisting others, Sasha enjoys running, pilates, and a sport called padel (the fastest growing sport everywhere but the US!). Sasha loves to travel and eat well everywhere she goes.
University of Texas School of Law, J.D. 2002
Rice University, B.A., 1999