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AREAS OF PRACTICECorporate Transactions Real Estate Taxation Energy Buddy specializes in the area of commercial transactions with a special emphasis on start-ups and small to medium-sized businesses and their owners. His practice includes a wide array of commercial transactions and contracts in areas such as the purchase and sale of real estate, business formations and operations, joint ventures and partnerships, limited liability companies, corporate, non-profit corporations and associations, professional corporations and associations, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and collections. A tax refund litigation attorney in Washington, D.C. with the Office of Chief Counsel, IRS and tax counsel for Fortune 100 international energy corporation, Buddy brings the benefit of almost two decades of specialized experience to his clients in partnership tax law, energy, corporate, reorganizations, liquidations, as well as his expertise in estate planning, probate, and asset preservation for business entities and their owners. REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE Purchase of multi-family apartment complex. Purchase of multi-unit storage complex. Like-kind exchange of real estate interests through tenants-in-common structure. Work-out and restructuring of business debt. Prosecution of trade names and service marks. Formations of limited liability companies, limited partnership, professional associations, family limited partnerships and corporations. Preparation of entity governance documents. Representation of individuals and their business entities before the IRS in the audit process. Negotiation and preparation of numerous business contracts for professional services, joint ventures, promotional products, marketing services and the like. Asset purchase of office furniture business. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES / MEMBERSHIPS / AFFILIATIONS State Bar of Missouri. State Bar of Texas. Dallas Bar Association. U.S. District Court,(Northern District of Texas). U.S. Tax Court; U. S. Court of Federal Claims. U.S. District Court,(Western District of Missouri). U. S. Supreme Court. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 1969 - B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder 1972 - J.D., University of Missouri-Columbia 1973 - L.L.M., Southern Methodist University. | 