Geoff Schultz represents clients in a wide variety of tax and general corporate matters in both domestic and international contexts. He has represented a diverse range of public and private clients, including companies in the oil and gas, real estate, construction, private equity, financial, chemical, and software industries.
Honors & Recognitions
Super Lawyers, Tax
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Credentials
Education
J.D., University of Texas School of Law, 1999
B.B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1996
Admissions
Texas
Experience
Geoff’s representations have included the following:
- Business Start-ups: Choice of entity tax and business considerations.
- Mergers and Acquisitions: Tax planning and compliance with respect to a wide variety of business combinations, both domestic and international.
- Debt and Equity Financings: Including mezzanine lending and private equity investments.
- Key employee admissions: Structuring admissions of key employees ongoing businesses.
- Company Agreements: drafting limited liability company and partnership agreements, including tailoring complex tax allocation provisions to achieve desired economic results and crafting “tax partnership” provisions for oil and gas ventures.
- Compensation Matters: Planning optimal compensation methods from both employer and employee perspectives, as well as designing plans and awards of restricted stock and membership interests, “profits” interests, incentive stock options, non-statutory stock options, phantom stock plans, and other compensation arrangements.
- Transaction Exit Strategies: Planning through the use of devices such as public offerings, recapitalization transactions, buy-sell agreements, and redemption agreements.
- International Transactions: Structuring and implementing both U.S. inbound and outbound investments and other transactions, as well as advising with respect to international tax compliance issues.
- Alternative Energy: Planning and compliance in connection with maximizing tax credits under Internal Revenue Code sections 45, 45Y, 48 and 48E regarding various alternative energy sources, including wind energy, solar, landfill gas, and biomass, as well as qualifying for the associated credit enhancements via the “prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements” and the “domestic content bonus”, and effecting transfers of available credits via “partnership flip” and “sale-leaseback” structures and the Internal Revenue Code section 6418 transferability provisions.
- Like-kind Exchanges: Planning and implementing tax deferred like-kind exchanges under Internal Revenue Code section 1031.
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Affiliations
State Bar of Texas, Member
American Bar Association, Member
Houston Bar Association, Member
