William C. "Bill" Lentine
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- Advises private equity and strategic buyers on acquisitions including structures.
- Counsels many closely held businesses on the buy and sell side of acquisitions including structuring the deal to handling due diligence, closing and post-closing matters.
- Assists businesses with tax issues in a variety of transactions, including choice of entity issues, issuance of incentive ownership to employees, capital formation and cross-border transactions.
- Tax controversy and audit consultations for individuals and businesses.
- Provides counseling for software as a service contracts (SaaS).
- Lead attorney in a shareholder redemption transaction leading to a buyout of fellow shareholders for an industrial services company. <
- Advises private equity and strategic buyers on acquisitions including structures.
- Counsels many closely held businesses on the buy and sell side of acquisitions including structuring the deal to handling due diligence, closing and post-closing matters.
- Assists businesses with tax issues in a variety of transactions, including choice of entity issues, issuance of incentive ownership to employees, capital formation and cross-border transactions.
- Tax controversy and audit consultations for individuals and businesses.
- Provides counseling for software as a service contracts (SaaS).
- Lead attorney in a shareholder redemption transaction leading to a buyout of fellow shareholders for an industrial services company.
- Lead attorney with structuring Michigan corporation acquisition by foreign private equity group.
- Experience in Tax Incentive real estate transactions including for New Markets, Historic Tax Credit.
- Experience in advising on tax benefits for Opportunity Zone Funds and investments.
- Structured pooled investment funds in cannabis related ventures and other industries.
- Substantial partnership tax experience through LLCs or general and limited partnerships for acquisitions, real estate ventures and industrial joint ventures.
- “Organizing and Capitalizing Your Business,” Cannabis Law Seminar – Industry Insights and Trends From the Legal Perspective, September 30, 2021, Lansing, Michigan
- “COVID-19 One Year Later: Employment Issues,” Warner Webinar, April 27, 2021
- “IRC 754 Elections for Tax Counsel: Mastering Structuring Considerations of Basis Adjustments,” Strafford Live CLE/CPE Webinar, June 4, 2020
- “Qualified Opportunity Fund P
- “Organizing and Capitalizing Your Business,” Cannabis Law Seminar – Industry Insights and Trends From the Legal Perspective, September 30, 2021, Lansing, Michigan
- “COVID-19 One Year Later: Employment Issues,” Warner Webinar, April 27, 2021
- “IRC 754 Elections for Tax Counsel: Mastering Structuring Considerations of Basis Adjustments,” Strafford Live CLE/CPE Webinar, June 4, 2020
- “Qualified Opportunity Fund Partnership Investments Under 1400Z: Special Timing and Deferral Opportunities,” Strafford Webinar, August 29, 2019
- Presenting at Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants monthly meeting group, November 28, 2018
- “Understanding M&A Deal Documentation,” Tax Section: Annual Fundamentals of Taxation Bootcamp, State Bar of Michigan, Taxation Section Seminar, October 25, 2018, Detroit, Michigan
- Pre-Sale Planning, MICPA Anti-Fraud Issues, Litigation & Business Valuation, Mergers & Acquisitions Conference, May 30, 2018, Livonia, Michigan
- Taxation: Section 280E: Planning & Considerations, State Bar of Michigan, Taxation Section Seminar, April 30, 2018, Detroit, Michigan
- Chair of the Michigan Bar Tax Conference, 30th Anniversary, May 25, 2017
- Sales and Use Tax Update, Michigan Electric Co-Op, Accounting Association, May 2017
- Cannabis Law Seminar – Industry Insights and Trends From the Legal Perspective
- Webinar: COVID-19 One Year Later: Employment Issues
- Webinar: IRC 754 Elections for Tax Counsel: Mastering Structuring Considerations of Basis Adjustments
- The Opportunity in Opportunity Zones
- Roundtable – Chief Compliance Officer
- Warner Represented Shepler’s Mackinac Island Ferry in the Sale of a Majority of Its Stock to The Hoffmann Family of Companies
- 21 Warner Attorneys Rated 2022 Top Lawyer by DBusiness
- William C. Lentine Selected for Leadership Oakland
- 105 Warner Attorneys Rated Best Lawyers in America©
- Warner Opens Bloomfield Hills Office
- 21 Warner Attorneys Rated 2021 Top Lawyer by DBusiness
- Warner Represents American Holoptics in $42 Million Acquisition of Military Supplier
- Warner Leverages Public-Private Partnership Experience for Landmark Bay City Deal
- 17 Warner Attorneys Rated 2019 Top Lawyer by DBusiness
- 58 Warner Attorneys Recognized by Michigan Super Lawyers Magazine
- Experienced Tax and Estate Planning Attorney Joins Warner
- Treasury Issues Guidance on President‘s Executive Order on Deferring Payroll Tax Obligations due to COVID-19
- Payroll Tax Obligations Deferred in Light of COVID-19
- Michigan Department of Treasury Confirms Personal Protective and Safety Equipment Used in Industrial Processing is Exempt from Sales and Use Tax
- IRS Grants Relief for Qualified Opportunity Funds and Investors Affected by Ongoing 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
- Reminder – Michigan Department of Treasury Delayed Q2 Estimated Tax Payments Until July 15, 2020
- Michigan Department of Treasury Waives Penalties and Interest on Monthly Sales, Use and Withholding Tax Returns Previously Due on May 20, 2020
- IRS Provides Coronavirus Relief to Parties in IRC Sec. 1031 “Like-Kind Exchange” Transactions
- Michigan Dept. of Treasury Delays Filing Deadline and Waives Penalties and Interest on April’s Sales, Use and Withholding Tax Returns
- Federal Tax Update: COVID-19 Delay for Payment and Filing
- Federal Tax Update: COVID-19 Delay for Payment and Filing
- How to Report the Employee Retention Credit for March Wages
- Michigan Tax Update: COVID-19 Delay for Payment and Filing
- CARES Act Includes Many Tax Relief Provisions for 2020
- Federal Tax Update: COVID-19 Delay for Payment and Filing
- HR 6201 to Create Tax Credits to Help Employers Amid COVID-19 Crisis
- Can My Estate Plan Benefit from Opportunity Zone Investment?
- Attorney Spotlight – William Lentine
- “Personal Property Tax Reform” Co-author, Michigan Tax Lawyer, Fall 2013
- “The IRS’s Voluntary Classification Settlement Program May Help Michigan Businesses,” Co-author, Michigan Tax Lawyer, Spring 2012
- “Personal Property Tax Reform” Co-author, Michigan Tax Lawyer, Fall 2013
- “The IRS’s Voluntary Classification Settlement Program May Help Michigan Businesses,” Co-author, Michigan Tax Lawyer, Spring 2012
