Mittel Law is a Chattanooga, Tennessee boutique focused on tax and corporate work for closely held businesses. The practice operates without the overhead of a large firm: every matter is handled by a senior attorney, from the initial engagement through closing or resolution. No handoffs, no surprise billing, no layer of associates between the client and the person responsible for the outcome.
We take a deliberately small number of matters at a time. That keeps the work careful and the client list short enough that the principal knows every file by name and remembers the facts without re-reading them. It also means our advice is grounded in your particular situation rather than a template pulled from the last engagement. When a matter needs a capability we do not hold in-house — a local litigator, a business appraiser, out-of-state tax counsel — we bring in the right specialist and coordinate the work rather than pretend a single office can do everything well.
Two things guide nearly every engagement. The first is to plan before the fact: the tax and corporate consequences of a deal, a transfer, or an entity choice are far cheaper to shape in advance than to fix after a notice arrives. The second is to be plain about it. Tax law is dense by nature, and a client who cannot follow the structure cannot make a sound decision about it. We explain the options in ordinary language, name the trade-offs honestly, and let you choose with the costs and the risks visible.
Mittel Law is a boutique tax and corporate law practice. Before founding the firm he spent roughly fifteen years advising businesses on the tax side of their most consequential transactions, including a long stretch as the sole tax attorney inside a busy transactional practice — the person every deal team came to when a structure had to actually work under the code. The firm's attorneys hold advanced tax law credentials and are admitted in Tennessee. Every engagement is approached with the instinct to ask the tax question first, to write agreements that survive a dispute, and to keep matters at the level where they can be resolved efficiently.