PROMINENT ASSIGNMENTS
Tax counsel to a Community Development Entity in connection with the allocation of $50,000,000 in the New Market Tax Credit ("NMTC") from the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund in the sixth round of the NMTC Program (June 2009).
Serves as corporate finance counsel in connection with structuring innovative financing structures, accomplishing cost savings and cash flow management.
Counseling clients in the gaming industry, including casinos and suppliers, concerning compliance with state and federal gaming laws and specific gaming-related taxes.
Tax planning and compliance counseling with respect to structuring mergers, acquisitions, disposition and business transactions to minimize taxes and comply with federal tax laws.
Tax counsel with respect to various federal and state tax credit transactions and economic development incentives such as federal New Market Tax Credits and Michigan Brownfield tax credits.
Federal partnership taxation, including tax planning and counseling in connection with the formation, capitalization, operations and terminations of entities taxed as partnerships.
Tax counsel for the issuance of tax-exempt bonds, including governmental bonds and Private Activity Bonds, ranging in size from $1,000,000 to over $475,000,000.
Tax counsel to non-profit entities with regard to formation, exempt status, UBIT and transactions with for-profit entities.
Counsel to clients in tax controversy matters before the United States Tax Court, Internal Revenue Service and state agencies.
EDUCATION
Michigan State University, B.A. 1997
Michigan State University College of Law, J.D. 2001 (summa cum laude)
- Law Review Note & Comment Editor, 2000-2001
- Law Review, 1999-2001
- Dean's List all semesters
New York University, LL.M (taxation) 2003