Francisca Gonzalez Baxa has been providing quality affordable legal services to small businesses, real estate developers and nonprofits for over 25 years.
She received a BA in political science from USC in 1982 and obtained her law degree (JD) from UC Davis in 1985.
She has been a licensed attorney since 1985 and has practiced in the Eastern and Central District Courts as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Her legal services to small business includes assisting them to protect their assets, grow their business and comply with legal requirements. Her business work includes drafting articles of incorporation, bylaws, statement of partnership authority for general partnerships (GP-1), partnership agreements, certificate of limited partnership (LP-1), limited partnerships, articles of organization (LLC-1), operating agreements, buy-sell agreements, and federal and state tax exemption applications, drafting commercial leases, drafting and negotiating contracts, review and negotiation of loan documents and compliance trainings.
Her real estate transactional work includes drafting, reviewing and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, commercial leases, options, architect’s contracts, development agreements, financial consultant agreements, general contractor’s contracts, construction supervisors contracts, management company contracts, loan and grant agreements from private and public financing sources, partnership agreements, board resolutions, legal opinions, and assisting clients with all due diligence and closings.
Throughout her legal career she has worked with hundreds of nonprofits assisting them with among other things incorporation, bylaws, federal and state tax exemption applications, strategic planning, board development, fundraising, starting businesses and maintaining their nonprofit tax exempt status.
She works with businesses both for profit and nonprofits to build capacity. The leadership development trainings include board’s role and responsibilities, strategic planning, fundraising basics and beyond, how to recruit and motivate your stakeholders.
She testified before the U.S. House of Representatives, subcommittee on Housing and Community Development and the State Assembly’s Committee on Housing and Community Development on the need for affordable housing development and housing preservation.
She has published the following articles “How to Fund your Community Economic Development Work”, “Creating, Preserving and Improving Housing through Community Economic Development”, and “Helping Low Income People Get Decent Jobs.”