Meet Ravi Dhaddey

Ravi Dhaddey's mission to bring the highest quality legal services to clients at a fair cost led him to form GoldPoint Law Group. His practice focuses on the legal, business and tax issues for clients who require a service provider who is accessible, proactive and pragmatic. He sees himself as a partner to his clients, keenly listening to their goals in order to provide expert legal council and sound steps of action. His low-key nature immediately relaxes those who come in to seek his advice.

Before Ravi was a partner at GoldPoint, he worked at Deloitte in the Private Equity Mergers and Acquisitions department.  He performed tax due diligence, structuring for mergers and strategic acquisitions.  He also advised clients on modeling forecasts, tax-free and taxable dispositions of assets or stock, highly leveraged buyouts, management buyouts and recapitalizations, initial public offering, divestitures and spinoffs and executive compensation issues. For his major private equity client, he drafted an international tax operations manual, which spanned 11 countries with all their various and differing laws.

Prior to Deloitte, Ravi worked at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in their Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Tax department. At PWC, he reviewed tax provisions under FAS 109, advised his clients on the validity of their internal tax controls under Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404. He also reviewed federal and state tax returns for corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and individuals. He was in charge of performing tax due diligence for strategic clients, reviewing merger agreements as well as reviewing partnership and joint venture agreements.

Furthermore, Ravi has drafted and reviewed Research & Development Credit Studies as well as Transfer Pricing Studies.

Ravi also worked in the tax department at MyCFO. There, he structured efficient tax strategies for high-net worth individuals and their entities. He also prepared and evaluated individual, partnership, private foundation, gift tax and corporation tax returns. Furthermore, he analyzed the prepared financial statements, developed income, investment and estate planning strategies for high net worth individuals.

For close to twenty years, Ravi has been been providing tax and legal services in Silicon Valley and the larger Bay Area. He has represented start-up companies, numerous founders, foreign corporations, family-owned businesses and high net worth individuals on legal and tax issues relating to formation, founder issues, capital structuring, estate planning and mergers and acquisitions. 

Ravi has a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry for University of California, Riverside. He did graduate studies in accounting at San Jose State. He earned a Juris Doctrine from University of San Diego followed by a Master of Laws in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. Ravi is licensed to practice in California and is an active member of both the California Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is a frequent lecturer at conferences.

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