Experienced Lawyer for Your Legal Needs
John Ransom Law Ready to Help You
Taxes can be confusing and costly for private companies and their owners, particularly for major events such as start-up, ownership changes and financings. John’s passion is providing practical and understandable income tax solutions to business owners based on his extensive experience as lead tax counsel in a wide variety of transactions ranging in size from five million to five billion dollars, often opposite the largest law firms in America.
John works seamlessly with the client’s legal and financial advisors on the tax aspects of matters such as:
- Business formation and expansion including choice of entity and capitalization such as different classes of equity involving priority return of capital, carried interests as well as convertible debt, warrants and employee stock options.
- Sale of business interests including the tax treatment of different payments such as rollover equity, earnouts, seller notes and escrows.
- S election issues and restructuring including F reorgs.
- Divorce and other related divisions of complex businesses and assets.
- Real estate development including maximizing long term capital gains.
- Oil and gas transactions including complex development agreements and dispositions of varying mineral interests including reverse and forward like kind exchanges.
- Bankruptcy and insolvency of businesses including the collateral consequences to the owners.
- Dispute settlements.
