Attorney Profiles

EXPERIENCE:

26 years experience in the practice of law. Areas of emphasis in practice are in the fields of tax law (planning, business transactions, dispute resolution and tax litigation), securities law, bankruptcy law (with emphasis on representation of creditors, creditor committees, trustees and Chapter 11 work), corporate law, commercial and business litigation, corporate takeovers, business organizations, personal injury law, professional malpractice, mergers and acquisitions, employment law, ERISA litigation, life/accident and health insurance law, wills, trust, estate planning, successions and estate administration. Trial experience in all federal district courts in Louisiana, many of the Louisiana state district courts, and the U.S. Tax Court.

Also serves as owner and manager of Nationwide 1031 Exchange Professionals, L.L.C. and Nationwide E.A.T., L.L.C., which provide services as an like-kind exchange intermediary and exchange accommodation title holder, respectively, for IRC §1031 like-kind exchange transactions.

REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS:

Represented either the seller or the buyer in the following transactions which ranged in value from $60 million to $1 million:

Guaranty Corporation “Going Private” Transaction cashing out over 4,000 public stockholders (1985);
Sale of WAFB-TV, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (1986);
Merger of Intracostal Oilfields Fluids with Sanifill Inc. (1990)];
Acquisition of KATD-(FM) of San Jose, California(1990);
Acquisition of KJIN/KCIL AM/FM, Houma, Louisiana (1990);
Acquisition of WBEX(AM)WKKJ-(FM), Chillicothe, Ohio (1990);
Acquisition of WZRH(FM), Slidell, Louisiana (1997);
Acquisition of WFPR(AM)/WHMD(FM), Hammond, Louisiana (1997);
Acquisition of WBBU(FM), Baton Rouge, Louisiana (1998);
Acquisition of WTGE(FM), Baton Rouge, Louisiana (1996);
Liquidation of Baton Rouge Bancshares, Inc.;
Acquisition of KXOR(FM), Thibodeaux, Louisiana (1998)];
Sale of Ancro Industries, Inc. Fort Payne, AL (1998);
Sale of Convent Marine Co., Inc. (1998];
Acquisition of KMRC(AM)/KFXY(FM), Morgan City, Louisiana (1999);
Sale of TLC Mobile Medical (Mobile X-Ray Business in LA., MS, and AL) (1999);
Sale of WBEX(AM)/WKKJ(FM), Chillicothe, Ohio (1999);
Corporate Reorganization of Builders Center, Inc. into Builders Center Holding Company, Inc., Builders Center Real Estate Co., LLC and Builders Center Supply Co., LLC;
Sale of Martin Terminal, Inc., Baton Rouge, La (2000).
Sale of WHMD(FM)/WFPR(AM) (2003);
Sale of Aquafilm, LLC (2004) [$11 Million Asset Sale of manufacturing plant in Tampa, Fl.]
Sale of Cast Films Europe, Ltd. (2004) [$14.6 Million Stock Sale of manufacturing facility in Birmingham, England]
Sale of Cycle World of Louisiana, Inc. (2004)
Sale of WKSY (FM), Picayune, MS (2005)
Sale of KCIL (FM), KJIN (AM), KBZZ (FM), KXOR (FM), Houma, LA
Served as Exchange Accommodation Title Holder for $11 million Reverse/Build to Suit §1031 Exchange of oil & gas production properties
Served as Tax Counsel to Exchange Accommodation Title Holder in Reverse Exchange for acquisition of Premier Tower in Baton Rouge - $35 million transaction