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Admitted:
1971, Texas; 1972, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; 1974, U.S. Tax Court; 1977, U.S. Supreme Court; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1981 U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
Law School:
University of Houston, J.D.
Member:
Houston and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; Houston Chapter of Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants; American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; College of the State Bar of Texas; Houston Estate and Financial Forum; Texas A&M University Development Foundation Planned Giving Counsel; MIT Enterprise Forum of Texas.
Biography:
Recipient: Outstanding Service Award, Houston Bar Association, 1977-1978; University of Houston Law Alumni Association President's Award, 1980-1981. Co-Recipient of Dean's Award, 1984-1985. Member, Board of Directors, 1979-1982 and President, 1983-1984, University of Houston Law Alumni Association. Fellow: Houston Bar Foundation.
Transactions: Sale of Hal Oilfield Pump and Equipment Co. Ltd. Partnership Assets to National Oilwell, LP; Sale Assets of Seismic Systems, Inc. to Sercel, Inc.; Private Company Acquisitions from Moeller Electric, Inc. and Moeller GmbH; Sale of CopperLogic, Inc to Eaton Corp.; and Sale of Chemical Market Associates, Inc. to IHS Corp.
Born:
Hanover, Pennsylvania
MilitaryService:
1Lt., TANG, USAR, 1965-1971
ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR at LAW:
1989 - present, sole practitioner.
1971 - 1989, employee and partner in multi-city and local Houston law firms.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Estate, tax and business planning partner in multi-city and local Houston firms. Served on firms' budget and/or management committees.
Supervised Houston area business collection litigation for public concrete company and handled numerous other business litigation and mediation matters.
One of the founding shareholders, directors, officers and management committee members of a Houston publishing company that created Houston Home & Garden and Dallas/Fort Worth Home & Garden magazines. Helped grow the organization over a ten year period, then sold to a New York publisher.
Assisted clients in successful mergers, acquisitions, sales and liquidations of ongoing businesses and real estate properties.
Tracked down stolen funds, in the millions, through several countries, for an oil trading client, and worked as part of an international team of lawyers who eventually seized the funds in Switzerland.
CPA and CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER:
1968 -1971: CFO, in-house CPA and tax advisor for Texas millionaire entrepreneur involved in multi-state wholesale and retail operations within the banking, environmental, music, plumbing and related industries. Responsible for cash flow, financial controls, tax matters and planning entry/exit strategies.
1962 - 1968: Accounting employee on the audit and tax staff of Deloitte, Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte & Touche) and local Houston CPA firms. Responsible for audits of public and private companies, tax planning and preparation of individual, estate, trust, partnership and corporate tax returns.
EDUCATION:
University of Houston, College of Law, Houston, Texas 1971, Juris Doctorate degree.
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 1962, B.B.A., Accounting.
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