Lawyer Bio : Jeffrey T. Lawyer

Jeff Lawyer is a Member of the firm, concentrating his practice in the areas of tax and general business. He is listed in the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Tax Law and has also been named to Business North Carolina’s 2005 Legal Elite. Jeff is a certified public accountant who spent six years with a Big 5 accounting firm before attending law school. Jeff has been practicing law for more than 18 years, during which time he has focused exclusively on tax issues. Jeff has handled significant tax matters for national clients, as well as North Carolina-based private companies. He represents clients in all aspects of federal and state tax planning for business transactions and operations, including tax planning and strategies for real estate transactions, joint venture formations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and S corporation; tax planning for mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions of business enterprises; tax planning for choice of entity and raising capital; and tax planning for health care and other exempt organizations, including planning business transactions and joint ventures appropriate for tax-exempt organizations.

Representative Clients and Matters

• Tax planning for corporate restructurings associated with public offerings and spin-off transactions.
• Tax planning of corporate merger and acquisition transactions structured as tax-free reorganizations.
• Represented target companies in structuring leveraged buyout transactions.
• Advised clients regarding tax planning for the acquisition, development and disposition of real estate, including structuring joint ventures and planning for tax-free, like-kind exchange transactions.
• Advised clients regarding tax planning for ownership and use of company-owned aircraft.
• Represented hospitals, exempt affiliates of hospitals, retirement homes private foundations, private operating foundations, research organizations, colleges and universities, and other tax-exempt organizations, including the filing of exemption applications and rulings.
• Regularly counsels tax exempt organizations on relationships with for-profit parties, including joint ventures between exempt organizations and for-profit parties.