Partner
CurrentI counsel my clients with respect to the many business and tax issues they face. I have deep expertise related to closely-held business organizations (S and C corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies) and their owners. I routinely advise clients regarding entity selection and reorganization decisions, purchases and sales of businesses and a wide variety of other business and investment transactions, structuring and forming private equity and other investment funds, succession planning, and many other issues that affect these organizations and their businesses and owners.I have been an active member of the S Corporations Committee of the ABA Tax Section for more than 25 years, and have served the Committee in a number of capacities, including Vice-Chair from 2008 through 2012 and Chair from July, 2012 through June, 2014. I have been a member of the Executive Committee of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Business Law Section since 2009, and presently serve as the Section's Chair. I also serve as co-chair the Section's Partnerships, Limited Partnerships, and Limited Liability Companies Committee, having served as either chair or co-chair since July, 2005. This committee played an integral role in studying, drafting, and pressing for adoption of the new Revised Uniform Limited Liability Act in Minnesota, which will go into effect on August 1, 2015. I previously served on the governing council of the Minnesota State Bar Association's Tax Section from 2000 to 2006 and as the Section's Chair during its 2002-03 year.
