Whether a client focuses on real estate deals or corporate transactions, the tax considerations are critical yet ever-changing from a regulatory and legal standpoint. Unique among firms of our size and value, Platt Richmond provides national quality tax planning and structuring counsel for business transactions of all types.
Platt Richmond’s representative tax experience includes:
- Business structure and succession planning, including choice of entity (partnership, limited liability companies, S corporations, and C corporations), joint venture ownership and waterfall structuring, and reorganizations with an eye to tax optimization
- Transaction tax planning and structuring, including sale of assets or equity, tax deferred like-kind exchanges, rollover equity, and the availability of special tax regimes or benefits such as Section 1202
- Section 1031 transactions
- Executive compensation and employee incentive equity benefit plans and related issues, including applicability of Sections 280G and 409A, options, profits interests, phantom equity, and deferred compensation plans
- Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund organization and transaction structuring
- Cross-border, state, and local tax planning and restructuring
- Cryptocurrency and DeFi taxation
- Federal and state tax controversy matters, including examinations and appeals
