Trends and Updates in Qualified Opportunity Zones: Critical Tax Considerations for QOF Investments

Lorenzo is Senior Counsel in Rosenberg Martin Greenberg’s Business Planning and Transactions and Tax and Wealth Planning groups, focusing particularly on the structural and other tax aspects of business transactions. Lorenzo focuses particularly on equity and asset sales and acquisitions and joint ventures, and the formation and restructuring of business entities. Lorenzo advises and focuses on equity compensation and real estate issues, as well as renewable energy, qualified opportunity zone, and other tax credit and tax benefit opportunities. Lorenzo’s practice encompasses many aspects of federal and state tax law. He is a member of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation and the Maryland State Bar Association. Lorenzo graduated from Princeton University and received his J.D. from Rutgers School of Law.

Derek Kershaw is counsel in Shearman & Sterling’s Tax practice. He advises clients on a range of areas of tax law. His practice includes domestic and international transactional work, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and hedge fund investments and structuring, REITs and other pass-through entities, and real estate.

Gene Crick is a partner in Nelson Mullins Broad and Cassel's Orlando location. Gene handles income tax issues and transactional legal work with respect to the buying and selling of entities or assets for various business clients. His transaction and tax experience includes affordable housing, historic buildings, and commercial buildings qualifying for federal income tax credits. Gene also has experience setting up qualified opportunity funds and qualified opportunity zone businesses and tax planning and documentation for forward and reverse deferred Section 1031 exchanges.

Gene is AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is a member of the tax sections of both the American Bar Association and the Florida Bar.