Jeff Lawyer

Practice Areas

Corporate; Corporate Tax; Multistate & Local Tax; Entity Structures; Commercial; Regulatory And Corporate Insurance; Impact Business Group; Equipment Finance; Opportunity Zones; Equity Capital Markets; Joint Ventures And Collaborations; Private Equity

Career

Jeff Lawyer is a veteran tax attorney focusing on transactional tax planning since 1986. Prior to attending law school, Jeff spent six years as a certified public accountant with a Big 4 accounting firm, which gives him a strong financial and accounting background to bring to bear on solving clients’ tax planning and structuring problems.

Jeff regularly works with Womble Bond Dickinson’s clients and transactional lawyers in planning and structuring mergers and acquisitions in the most tax efficient manner, including taxable asset and equity acquisitions, tax free mergers and reorganizations, and acquisitions with tax deferred equity rollovers.

Jeff regularly counsels clients on the use of pass-through entities in joint ventures and investment transactions, including structuring distribution and allocation provisions of partnership and limited liability company agreements for real estate and private equity transactions. Jeff has extensive experience in planning and structuring tax deferred like-kind exchange transactions involving real estate.

A significant portion of Jeff’s practice relates to counseling tax-exempt organizations. He has represented hospitals, exempt affiliates of hospitals, retirement communities, private foundations, research organizations, and colleges and universities in filing exemption applications and rulings, mergers and acquisitions, and reorganizations. Jeff regularly counsels tax-exempt organizations on relationships with for-profit parties, including joint ventures between exempt organizations and for-profit parties.

Jeff has helped clients to successfully resolve federal tax audits and controversies in the administrative appeals process and in the US Tax Court.

Professional Memberships

North Carolina Bar Association, Past Chairman, Tax Section