TAX LAW

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Tax considerations are an integral part of doing business. Accordingly, our tax law attorneys are an integral part of our service to clients.

We offer clear, concrete guidance to help businesses structure their operations – and transactions – for tax efficiency, and to mitigate the risk of tax issues in the future.

Businesses at all stages of growth have turned to us for counsel on tax planning and related decisions. This includes work with entrepreneurs on entity formation and consultation on early-stage compensation agreements, including stock options, phantom stock, stock appreciation rights, and profit interests.

Our team advises established businesses on a wide array of tax matters, including tax-efficient structuring of transactions, such as private placements of equity and debt, acquisitions, dispositions, reorganizations, recapitalizations, and real estate leases.

When tax-related conflicts arise, our tax and litigation attorneys work to resolve issues as favorably as possible, whether via audit, administrative appeals, or in federal and state trial and appellate courts.

Our attorneys also advise on nonprofit corporation law and the taxation of exempt organizations, including unrelated business income, private inurnment and other issues.

Attorneys in our estates and trusts team advise individuals, families and fiduciaries for guidance on estate tax, inheritance tax, gift tax and estate income tax.

Areas of Service – Tax Law

• Choice of entity and tax aspects of entity formation
• Executive compensation, including qualified and non-qualified options, phantom equity, appreciation rights, and deferred compensation
• Partnership, S corporation, and C corporation taxation
• Real and personal property taxation
• Recordation and transfer taxes
• Sales and use taxation
• Tax controversies and disputes
• Tax implications and structures of partnership and operating agreements
• Tax structures of acquisitions, sales, mergers, and reorganizations, including asset and equity transactions
• Tax-free corporate reorganizations
• Tax-free section 1031 exchanges
• Estate Tax and Estate Income Tax
• Inheritance Tax
• Gift Tax

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