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 regarding maximizing cash grants under Section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and tax credits under Internal Revenue Code sections 45 and 45J regarding various alternative energy sources, including wind energy, landfill gas, biomass, and nuclear facilities.
- 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