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Efficient and thorough, Jake approaches each situation with a teamwork-oriented mindset, working in tandem with the client to identify and achieve their long-term goals through sales, acquisitions, reorganizations, restructuring and other creative solutions.

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J.D., University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2015

B.S., Accounting, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, 2011

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<li>Represented clients in estate and gift tax and income controversy matters, including the estate of an ultra-high net worth individual in IRS dispute involving intra-family promissory notes, family limited partnership interests and grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs).</li>
<li>Advised real estate and private equity sponsors on freeze partnership structures and the Section 2701 special valuation rules, primarily involving gifting equity interests in limited liability companies with multiple classes of equity.</li>
<li>Advised clients on tax-efficient exit strategies, including sales and redemptions of partnership/LLC interests, sales and redemptions of S corporation stock and sales of C corporation stock (including Section 1202 stock).</li>
<li>Advised clients on tax-efficient merger, restructuring and consolidation strategies, including tax-free corporate reorganizations, partnership mergers and divisions and part gift/part contribution transactions involving rollover equity.</li>
<li>Advised real estate sponsors and investors on Opportunity Zones, including structuring and drafting organizational documents for qualified opportunity funds and qualified opportunity zone business entities; advised Opportunity Zone investors on gain deferral, timing rules and gain exclusion benefits associated with Opportunity Zones.</li>
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Jacob D. Millis

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