Attorneys

Mr. Egerton is a tax and corporate attorney whose practice emphasizes tax planning for real estate transactions including tax free exchanges, planning to preserve long term capital gains in dispositions of real estate, tax planning for debt restructuring and workouts and tax structuring of joint ventures for the acquisition and development of real properties; negotiating and drafting partnership and limited liability company agreements; mergers, sales and acquisitions of businesses; and the handling of federal tax controversies at the audit, trial and appeals levels. Mr. Egerton is the current chair of the American Bar Association's Section of Taxation, the nation's largest organization of tax lawyers.

Areas of Practice:
Federal Taxation: Tax Planning for Real Estate Transactions
Federal Taxation: Tax Free Exchanges of Real Estate
Federal Taxation: Partnership Taxation
Federal Taxation: Tax Controversies
Corporations
Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies
Mergers and Acquisitions

Bar Admissions:
Florida, 1969
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
U.S. Tax Court
U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida

Education:
New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1971
LL.M. in Taxation

University of Florida College of Law, Gainesville, Florida, 1969
J.D.
Law Review: University of Florida Law Review

Emory University, 1966
B.B.A.
Honors: Sigma Nu Fraternity Commander
Honors: Inter-Fraternity Council President
Honors: Student Senate

Representative Clients:
Jacksonville Jaguars, Ltd.
Alico, Inc.
Atlantic Blue Trust, Inc.
Maury L. Carter & Associates, Inc.
First American Exchange Company, LLC

Honors and Awards:
Named an Outstanding Tax Attorney in The Best Lawyers in America for over 25 years
Named an Outstanding Tax Attorney in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2003-2009
Named an Outstanding Business/Corporate Attorney in Florida Super Lawyers Magazine, 2008
Named an Outstanding Tax Attorney in Florida Super Lawyers Magazine, 2007-2009
Named an Outstanding Tax Attorney in Florida Trend Magazine's, Legal Elite, 2005-2009
Named an Outstanding Corporate Tax Attorney in The International Who's Who of Corporate Tax Lawyers, 2006 - 2009
Recipient of the Gerald T. Hart Award as the Outstanding Tax Attorney in the State of Florida by The Florida Bar Tax Section, 1998
Martindale-Hubbell Rating: AV

Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association - Tax Section
            Chair (2010-2011)
            Former Vice-Chair (Committee Operations)
            Council Member
            Former Liaison for ABA Tax Section to AICPA
            Former Chair of the Committee on Partnerships and LLCs
            Former Liaison to SB/SE Division of the IRS
The Florida Bar - Tax Section
            Former Chair
            Former Chair of Tax Certification Committee
American College of Tax Counsel
            Fellow and Former Regent for 11th Circuit
Southern Federal Tax Institute
            Trustee and former Chairman
American Bar Foundation 
            Fellow
The Florida Bar Foundation, Inc.
            Fellow
Community Foundation of Central Florida
            Former Chairman and Member of Board of Directors
Downtown YMCA 
            Former Member of Board of Directors and Former Chairman

Fraternities/Sororities:
Phi Kappa Phi
Omicron Delta Kappa