Roxanne Makoff

Roxanne E. Makoff is an associate attorney at the San Francisco office of the Valle Makoff LLP law firm, which has two other offices in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, California. Serving clients across the state of California, she focuses her practice on business litigation and business/corporate law.Experienced in advisory work and litigation matters, Ms. Makoff is a diligent attorney who always keeps her clients’ best interests in mind and strives to get them the most favorable outcome against all odds. She has gained extensive experience working on several complex cases, including on two consolidated business matters as an appellate co-counsel, resulting in a summary judgment and an award of more than $318,000. Ms. Makoff also consults in the drafting and litigation of complex agreements between non-married co-habitants (Marvinagreements), premarital agreements, settlement agreements, property transfer agreements and business entity owner and manager agreements.Ms. Makoff is the Executive Editor (Updates) and contributed extensive research, writing, and editing to“Litigating and Judging California Business Entity Governance Disputes”(LexisNexis/Matthew Bender 2019), is the co-author of CEB’s Practice Guide on“Understanding Fiduciary Duties in Business Entities”on “Fiduciary Duties in Family Businesses and Transactions” and co-authored an article in the Daily Journal, “The Law and Practice of Litigating Marvin Claims in a Less-Married Millennium.”After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Hamilton College, Ms. Makoff began working as a case clerk at Clyde & Co. in the San Francisco Bay Area and as a national office fellow at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. She then decided to pursue her legal studies and attended Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. During law school, she served as the notes editor for the Cardozo Law Review. She also served as an extern at the New York County Supreme Court for the Honorable Arthur F. Engoron and interned in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.Earning her Juris Doctor in 2017, Ms. Makoff passed the bar and is licensed to practice in all the state courts of California. She is also admitted before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.