January Meeting - ESOPS
Todd Denison is an attorney with Phelps Dunbar in Mobile, Alabama. He represents individuals and business entities in the areas of business transactions and operations, partnership and corporate taxation, real and personal property transactions, trust and estates (including sophisticated estate planning), charitable organizations (formation and operations), employee stock ownership plans and other qualified retirement plans, captive insurance, international transactions and taxation, tax controversies with the IRS and elder law. Mr. Denison’s clients include a regional engineering firm, national advertising agency, regional construction firm, regional stone and interior design firm and numerous family-owned businesses operating locally, regionally and internationally.
Mr. Denison was with Lyons, Pipes & Cook in Mobile before the firm joined Phelps Dunbar. Mr. Denison served in the U.S. Army from 1986-1990, attaining the rank of Captain, and was posted in the Federal Republic of Germany.
- Serves as corporate counsel for several area businesses with regional, national and international operations.
- Formed and counseled numerous closely held businesses.
- Assisted in the formation of offshore entities for U.S.-based businesses.
- Counseled a business client in the acquisition of a Caribbean resort interest.
- Counseled a regional business with 1,000 employees in the formation of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
- Represented an ESOP in selling its stock in a corporate stock sale.
- Represented a large corporate client in a joint committee tax deficiency case.
- Counseled high net worth individuals with sophisticated estate plans.
- Counseled numerous health care-provider clients with regard to business and regulatory issues.
- Formed and counseled numerous tax exempt entities.