Richard L. Kintz

Richard L. Kintz (“Dick”) is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the Del Mar Heights office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP, an international law firm with over 580 lawyers. He currently serves as chair of the firm's Family and Closely Held Business Team as well as the Sheppard Mullin's Private Wealth Services Group. Mr. Kintz is a transactional attorney with a broad base of transactional experience.

Mr. Kintz acts as a Trusted Advisor to his clients in providing them with strategic advice as to business, successorship, and estate planning issues. He has served as Managing Partner at one time in the office of each law firm in which he has been a partner for the last thirty-five years.  

Experience

Corporate

• Venture Capital
• Start Up Company Formation and Funding
• Representation of Middle Market Companies
• Mergers, Acquisitions, and Dispositions
• Advice on alternative liquidity events, including Initial Public Offerings
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan Planning
• Private Placement Memorandums
• Entity Selection
• Strategic Planning
• Shareholder Agreements

Partnership and Limited Liability Companies (“LLC”)

• Formation – over 1,000 partnerships and LLCs
• Carried Interests
• Creative structuring for exchanging partnership or LLC interests
• Sales of partnership and LLC interests
• Complex structuring

Real Estate

• Purchase and Sales
• Complex IRC 1031 Exchanges

Executive Compensation

• Stock Plans
• Equity Structuring
• Phantom Equity Plans

Estate Planning for Real Estate Clients

• Most clients are real estate owners or holders of minority partnership or LLC interests
• Strategic Planning done for individuals and their businesses

Tax (previously a certified tax attorney in California)

• Perform most of the tax structuring for all my own real estate and corporate transactions

Honors

Listed in every edition of Best Lawyers in America from 1989 to 2012 in the areas of real estate, tax and corporate law

Selected as a San Diego Super Lawyer, 2011 and 2012