Joseph  R. Gomez

Partner

Joseph R. Gomez is a partner residing in our Coral Gables office, where he focuses his practice in the areas of corporate, securities, and tax law, and commercial transactions. Throughout his career, Mr. Gomez has enjoyed representing a wide range of individuals, entrepreneurs, and companies, large and small, in their important legal matters, including representations involving entity formations and restructurings, purchases and sales of businesses, contract negotiations, partnership, LLC, and joint venture transactions, private equity and private placement transactions, domestic and international tax planning, IRS tax disputes, estate planning, financing and real estate transactions.

Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Gomez was a Partner in the Miami office of the AM Law 100 law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, where he was a member of the firm's Corporate & Tax Group. Prior to joining Boies, Schiller, he was a Partner in the Miami firm of Zack, Kosnitzky, P.A. He began his legal career with the Chicago firm of Karon, Morrison and Savikas, LLP.

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Notable Client Work

The following are select transactions and representations in which Mr. Gomez has had a leading or otherwise significant role:

  • Represented a privately held company in corporate aspects of its sale of 2 buildings on Times Square for $102 million
  • Represented a privately held media company in a joint venture with the world’s leading rental car company for the supply of content loaded hand held video devices
  • Represented large private equity firms in a variety of tax matters, including pre-IPO tax planning, investment restructurings in cross border transactions, and portfolio investments in CFCs and PFICs
  • Represented the seller in the sale of a furniture manufacturing company for $14 million to a private equity firm
  • Represented an automobile dealer in a $20 million reverse 1031 tax-free exchange
  • Represented a professional baseball player in an IRS Tax Court dispute obtaining a substantial reduction of taxes and penalties owned to the IRS
  • Provided tax planning advice to the purchaser of a cooperative housing corporation in connection with its stock purchase of the cooperative for $510 million
  • Represented a major real estate developer in capital gains tax and state documentary stamp tax planning
  • Represented a group of developers in a private placement offering of limited partnership interests in connection with the development of a $48 million retail and office condominium project
  • Represented an automobile products manufacturer in a sale of all its assets for $30 million to a privately held Japanese company
  • Represented a privately held automobile parts manufacturer in a cross border joint venture with a publicly held South Korean metals manufacturer
  • Represented a privately held medical device company in various rounds of preferred stock investments by a venture capital firm
  • Represented a newly formed private equity fund in a $10 million private placement offering
  • Representing one of the nation’s largest home builders in a state documentary stamp tax dispute with the Florida Department of Revenue arising from inter-company real estate transfers
  • Represented a retail complex in a $26 million refinancing of real estate debt

Selected Published Works and Lectures

  • Speaker, Structuring the Business Venture: Balancing the Competing Interests (a CLE Presentation of The Florida Bar)
  • Speaker, Mastering Mergers and Acquisitions in Florida (National Business Institute)
  • Article, “Understanding the Sections 338 and 338(h)(10) Elections” published in The Tax Advisor, a national publication
  • Speaker, Choosing the Right Entity for Conducting Business (The Greater Miami Tax Institute)
  • Article, “Tax Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions for the Corporate Lawyer” published in the Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law; Profiled in Bowne Digest for Corporate and Securities Lawyers, Abstracts of Insightful Current Articles from Legal Periodicals

Professional/Civic Activities

  • Chair, Corporations, Securities, & Financial Services Committee of The Business Law Section of the Florida Bar (June 2008-June 2009; Co-Vice Chair June 2006-June 2008)
  • Executive Council Member, Business Law Section of the Florida Bar
  • Task Force Member, RE-RULPA Review, Tax Section of the Florida Bar (Article 5 Subcommittee)
  • Committee Member, Third Party Legal Opinions Standards, Business Law Section of the Florida Bar
  • Florida LLC Chapter 608 Drafting Committee Member, NCCSL and ABA LLC Acts Review
  • Member, Cuban American Bar Association

Bar Admissions

  • Florida

Education

  • L.L.M. (Taxation) University of Miami (2001)
  • J.D., University of Miami (1987) (Associate Editor, Law Review)
  • B.B.A. (Finance) University of Miami (1984) (cum laude)

Foreign Languages

  • Fluent in Spanish
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