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Janathan L. Allen

An Integrated Approach

Janathan Allen is an experienced tax attorney and business lawyer who integrates business, legal, tax and accounting strategies to provide her clients with better answers to their questions and more informed strategies to leverage their opportunities.

Most businesses have separate tax attorneys, business attorneys, CPAs and accountants, tax preparers and financial advisors. If you take the same problem to each professional, they will provide what they genuinely believe is the right and best answer. However, it will only be based upon their unique (and somewhat limited) perspective.

The business attorney will have no idea how the solution they are recommending impacts business operations or your accounting systems. The financial planner has no idea how their recommendation may be impacted by interstate or international tax implications.

This is the genuine value of the integrated approach Janathan Allen and Allen Barron take when they work with you as a client on any challenge or opportunity.

Background

A Montana native, Janathan Allen brings domestic and international tax, accounting, finance knowledge to Allen Barron, Inc. and legal experience to Janathan L Allen, APC. Allen has worked with a diverse group of businesses, advising clients in legal, financial and tax arenas.

Beginning her career in the public accounting arena, she moved into the private sector as tax director for a biotech firm, Hybritech, Inc. She progressed to controller and CFO/Legal Counsel positions for a number of San Diego companies before becoming a partner in Allen Barron, Inc. and founding Janathan L. Allen, APC.

Why Do I Practice as an Attorney and an Accountant?

I enjoy helping business professionals and individuals with assets to solve complex problems and develop strategies which help to accomplish their goals. Clients often underestimate how hard I will work and how far I will go to solve their problems. There are only so many hours in a day, and I work to select clients with an opportunity I can help them to realize or a problem I can help them to solve.

In this fast paced and global economy it is not sufficient to answer most business questions from a single perspective of tax, legal, accounting or the impact on the operations of the business itself. Issues are integrated.

The problem is, most genuine business questions and challenges are actually a symptom of a deeper issue. A business attorney really doesn’t fully know or understand the implications of many decisions upon your company’s tax exposure. You may need to change your strategies surrounding entity structure, organization and tax strategies, but the accounting system must be able to capture crucial data to inform business and tax decisions.

If all you need is a quick opinion from a single tax, legal, accounting or business perspective Janathan L. Allen and Allen Barron can quickly and cost-effectively deliver it.

However, in many cases what appears to be a simple fire or challenge within your company actually encompasses many of the above disciplines. In these cases, a business attorney may provide a recommendation based upon their unique perspective. Yet their recommendation is not in the company’s best interest from a tax, accounting or operational business perspective.

Janathan Allen and Allen Barron integrate these disciplines to approach your business challenges from a higher and broader perspective. We understand how the pieces of the overall strategy fit together, and how one seemingly isolated decision or challenge may affect a much broader segment of the overall picture. We provide a complete perspective saving you the time and expense of attempting to work with 5 separate professionals without ever really getting to the solution which reflects all aspects of the challenge at hand.

Author, Speaker, CLE Trainer

JD Supra Readers Choice Top Author 2024
JD Supra Readers Choice Top Author 2024

Janathan Allen and Allen Barron, Inc. have been recognized by JD Supra as a recipient of the 2023:

JD Supra’s Readers Choice Awards

Awarded March 4, 2024 This Readers’ Choice Awards recognize top authors and firms who were read by C-suite executives, in-house counsel, media, and other professionals across the JD Supra platform during 2023.

This year, the awards recognize:

  • authors for their visibility and thought leadership covering 31 key, cross-industry topics (10 authors per category).  This award recognizes 303 authors out of more than 77,000 author/contributors.
  • firms for their visibility and engagement in the 31 topics covered by the awards (one firm per category).

Janathan Allen is a highly sought after author, speaker and Continuing Legal Education (CLE) trainer. She has authored scores of business articles which have been picked up across the US and internationally. Jan is a featured author in each issue of “The American” – an international publication for US Expatriates. The firm has created many focused white papers, which provide insight into specific challenges and opportunities.

Jan is often asked to speak on panels in local, regional, national and international forums.

She has led seminars throughout California on Transactional Planning and Strategies for New US Tax Laws, Tax-Advantaged Corporate Structures and Tax Minimization, and appeared as a panelist for Tech Coast Venture Network in a round table discussion for venture capital and angel financing.

Jan has participated in scores of CLE programs which help to educate other attorneys while increasing their knowledge and skill in complex legal areas such as taxation and international business.

Janathan Allen presently serves on the Board of the North San Diego Business Chamber.

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Practice Areas

Domestic & International Tax Law

Business & Commercial Law

Transactional Planning

Corporate & Securities Law

Intellectual Property Law

Trust & Estates

Education

Latin Legum Magister (L.L.M.)
Master of Laws
University of San Diego School of Law

Juris Doctor (J.D.)
Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, Ca.

Masters of Business Administration
International Finance
University of San Diego

Bachelor of Science, Accounting
University of Montana

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Contact Us To Learn More About Allen Barron's Services

For more information or to discuss your business needs contact Allen Barron or call 866-631-3470 for a free and confidential initial consultation. Learn about the importance of integrated business strategy and coordination across legal, tax and accounting systems.

Offices of Allen Barron, Inc.

Main Office

16745 West Bernardo Drive, Suite 260
San Diego, CA 92127
Phone: 858-304-0947
Phone: 866-631-3470
Fax: 858-376-1410

San Diego Office

5720 Oberlin Drive
San Diego, CA 92121
Phone: 866-631-3470
Fax: 760-741-1410

Las Vegas Office

333 South Sixth Street, Suite 230
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Phone: 702-749-4430
Fax: 702-933-1748

San Diego Office

750 B Street, Suite 2610
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: 619-702-8356
Fax: 619-923-8356

San Francisco Office

300 Montgomery Street, Suite 410
San Francisco, CA 94101
Phone: 415-481-0475
Fax: 415-762-1539

Phoenix Office

40 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Phone: 602-903-7018
Fax: 602-357-1655