About

Stephen L Phillips is a tax and commercial enterprise attorney in Austin, Texas, USA, with a passion for assisting entrepreneurs and buyers develop and monetize their assets both locally and internationally.

A founding member of Phillips Golden LLP, Steve is a tax and business legal professional in Austin, Texas, USA. He has been constantly Board Certified in Tax Law by using the Texas Board of Legal Specialization on the grounds that 1994.

His and his corporation's ardour is to engage and collaborate with home and global marketers and traders to assist them pick out, develop, enjoy, and monetize their actual and intangible property, thoughts, and resources right here and overseas.

Prior engagements and clients have ranged from contemporary era leaders, to ranching and oil and gas magnates, to inventors and purveyors of low-tech patron services and products, to prominent traders, celebrities, idea-leaders, and philanthropists.

Our customer appreciates seasoned tax and enterprise legal suggest with experience in sophisticated investment and entrepreneurial topics, a worldwide angle, and a keen and sharp eye for the ever-present tax implications of an undertaking or transaction.

Our project is to provide prison services in a snug and innovative placing, freed from pretense and synthetic shipping hierarchies, and with the maximum advanced technological tools to be had.

Typical representations consist of: Private funding and intently-held business evaluation and structure; own family funding and retaining organization company and reorganization; real property investment and development; cross-border transactions (inbound and outbound) involving actual property, offerings, and goods; angel and other private equity and debt funding; commercial enterprise operations, dissolution, M&A, and other exits; person and partnership taxation; government and equity reimbursement, including deferred; liquidity occasion pre- and put up-making plans; repatriation of foreign belongings from entities and trusts; worker category planning and controversy; family workplace enterprise and operations; inbound and outbound business/character migration around the U.S. and abroad.

Legal Issues

Tax Law

Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning

Real Estate Law

Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law

Business Law

Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes

Certificates

Board Certified Tax Law
Texas Board Of Legal Specialization

Languages

Accepted Jurisdictions

Experience

• Founding & Senior Partner / CFO
  Phillips Golden LLP
  2017
• Lawyer / Partner
  Giordani, Swanger, Ripp & Phillips LLP
  2007
• Lawyer / Partner
  Cantey & Hanger LLP
  2000
• Lawyer / Shareholder
  Roan & Autrey PC
  1995
• Tax Counsel
  Electronic Data Systems
  1990
• Associate Lawyer
  Johnson & Gibbs
  1983

Education

Associations

Costs

• Payment With Credit Card
  Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express
• Retaines and Rates
  Predominantly hourly billing, but can devise creative fee schemes as warranted with the right clients.

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