CONCENTRATION
Jason Stone is a shareholder of the Davis Brown Law Firm in the Business Law Division. His practice concentrates on the formation, acquisition, disposition, operation, and liquidation of business entities of all types and sizes and he has served clients in the fields of real estate, advanced technologies, health care, agriculture, manufacturing and finance.
REPRESENTATIVE ENGAGEMENTS
• Advising one of the nation's largest federated cooperatives on tax-free reorganizations, liquidations and joint ventures;
• Advising a publicly traded diversified financial services company on tax-free reorganizations, debt offerings and compensation matters;
• Advising a publicly traded manufacturing company on critical federal income tax issues;
• Advising a publicly traded media company on tax-free exchanges of personal property;
• Advising leading real estate companies on various corporate and tax matters including, but not limited to, state and federal income and property tax matters, with a special emphasis on state and federal income tax credits;
• Advising buyers and sellers on acquisitions and dispositions in transactions of various sizes;
• Advising numerous non-profit corporations on compliance matters including federal income tax exemption, intermediate sanctions, and joint-ventures;
• Advising various business entities on state income, sales and use tax disputes; and
• Advising a community development entity on matters related to the deployment of its $45,000,000 new market tax credit allocation.
SPEAKING, PUBLICATIONS AND SEMINARS
Jason is an active speaker and has given presentations on advanced like-kind exchange techniques, distributions from partnerships and limited liability companies, structuring and drafting partnership, LLP, LLLP and LLC agreements, and international taxation.
Jason served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Drake University, where he taught business entity taxation.
MEMBERSHIPS
Jason is active in the American Bar Association, Section of Taxation, where he is a member of the Partnership and Real Estate Committees and the Young Lawyer's Forum. He is also active in the Iowa Bar Association, Section of Taxation, and is a member of the Tax Section Council. Jason has served as a member of the Planning Committee for the December Tax School and Spring Tax Institute and as the Chair of the 2005 Spring Tax Institute Planning Committee.
COMMUNITY
Jason currently serves as a director for the Iowa Wellness Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of health and wellness in the workplace.
PERSONAL
Outside of work, Jason enjoys spending time with his family and playing golf.
Resources
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Business Organizations and Transactions
Mergers & Acquisitions
Tax
Tax Credit Finance and Economic Development
Iowa State Bar Association, Tax Section Council