Tiffany is a trusted legal advisor who is driven by helping transform her clients’ ideas into reality. With over 20 years of experience, her practice focuses on corporate law. Her experience enables her to conceive and develop commercial transactions with tax structures that are both commercially viable and efficient. Her broad experience includes handling corporate advisory work and a wide variety of transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, initial offerings for both publicly and privately traded equity funds and purchase agreements for real property. She has represented individuals and companies – both foreign and domestic – on inbound and outbound transactions. She also advises individuals on a variety of tax matters ranging from compliance to structuring.
As an advisor, Tiffany takes pride in providing guidance in a holistic manner and through a commercial lens. She understands that each relationship and transaction involves give and take and her objective is to shepherd her clients through risks worth taking to achieve their goals. Tiffany has advised all types of businesses and industries, including in the retail, hospitality, creative, digital and consulting industries. For most of her clients, Tiffany serves as external general counsel who guides her clients on a wide range of issues, including strategic alliances, internal company management and operations and transactions.
Prior to Heah Bar-Nissim, Tiffany worked at boutique international transaction and tax law firm in Los Angeles. Prior to that, she worked as a corporate attorney in Malaysia for eight years – three of which were spent at a Baker & McKenzie affiliate. Tiffany went to law school at King’s College London and obtained her LL.B.. She worked for several years as a corporate attorney before moving to the United States and pursuing her LL.M. at the University of Southern California.
+ Advised shareholders, board of directors, business owners and key management on various legal matters ranging from drafting, reviewing and negotiating agreements, advising on legal compliance issues and how to minimize risks through operations.
+ Advised client on how to pivot its business model from a live event organizer to a software company due to governmental restrictions during the pandemic.
+ Drafted, reviewed and negotiated all forms of agreements, such as independent contractors agreements, talent agreements, license agreements, management agreements, commercial leases and employment agreements.
+ Represented various individuals interested in setting up businesses by advising them on how to structure the investment or business entity to minimize risk and tax exposure, including drafting partnership agreements, shareholders agreements, operating agreements to document the relationship between the business owners.
+ Represented various private companies in handling compliance matters to ensure that the business entity remains in good standing.
+ Represented various businesses to raise funds, whether internally, through third party lenders or private equity investors.
+ Represented clients in the sale and acquisition of various businesses ranging from a wineries, restaurants, animal daycare and pet grooming to wealth management brokerage.
+ Represented clients in restructuring business entities to streamline operations and improve tax efficiency.
+ Represented various businesses to raise funds, whether internally, through third party lenders or private equity investors.
+ Represented clients in the sale and acquisition of various businesses ranging from a wineries, restaurants, animal daycare and pet grooming to wealth management brokerage.
+ Represented clients in restructuring business entities to streamline operations and improve tax efficiency.
+ American Bar Association
(2023 to present)
+ Managing Editor of the ILS NEWS
(2020 to 2023)
+ California Lawyers Association – International Law and Immigration Section
Chair (2021 to 2022)
Vice-Chair (2019 to 2021)
Secretary (2017 to 2019)
+ Antelope Valley Chamber of Commerce – Director
(2020 to 2023)
+ Palmdale Chamber of Commerce – Director
(2018 to 2020)
+ State Bar of California – International Law Section: Executive Committee
(2016 – 2017)
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