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Charles H. Egerton 
Orlando, Florida
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phone 407-428-5112
fax (407) 423-1831
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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-elect 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-Elect: August 2009 - July 2010


American Bar Association - Tax Section
Former Vice-Chair (Committee Operations)


American Bar Association - Tax Section
Council Member


American Bar Association - Tax Section
Liaison for ABA Tax Section to AICPA


American Bar Association - Tax Section
Former Chair of the Committee on Partnerships and LLCs


American Bar Association - Tax Section
Former Liaison to SB/SE Division of the IRS


The Florida Bar - Tax Section
Former Chair


The Florida Bar - Tax Section
Former Chair of Tax Certification Committee


The Florida Bar - Tax Section
Primary Author of the Initial Standards for Tax Attorney Certification


The Florida Bar Foundation, Inc.
Fellow


American College of Tax Counsel
Fellow and Former Regent for 11th Circuit


Southern Federal Tax Institute
Trustee and Former Chairman


American Bar Foundation
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


All Saints Episcopal Church
Lay Eucharistic Minister and Adult Class Teacher


Fraternities/Sororities:
Phi Kappa Phi
Omicron Delta Kappa
Locations

Orlando: 407-841-1200
Fort Pierce: 772-464-7700
Viera: 321-259-8900
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