Justin Mills counsels business owners, entities and creditors on prospective corporate and business tax planning matters. In addition, Mr. Mills assists clients with a host of tax issues related to estate planning, pension and retirement plans, ESOPs and executive compensation plans, intellectual property, joint-ventures with tax-exempt entities and ancillary healthcare investments.
Areas of Practice
- Income tax planning for individuals, S corporations, partnerships, professional corporations, LLCs, and family businesses
- Choice of entity, capitalization and business formation planning
- Mergers and tax-free reorganizations
- Recapitalizations
- Spin-offs and split-ups
- Liquidations
- Debt Restructuring
- Partnership and LLC operating agreement drafting for tax matters
- Sales
- Acquisitions
- Real estate planning
- Exit strategies for closely-held businesses
- Estate Planning
- Corporate law planning and compliance
- Pension and Profit Sharing design and administration
- Plan design, adoption, maintenance and termination
- Department of Labor and Internal Revenue Service audit representation
- Business start-ups with retirement plan assets
- Business start-ups planning with retirement plan assets
- Executive and equity compensation planning
- Nonqualified deferred compensation
- Synthetic equity
- Phantom stock plans
- Stock appreciation rights
- ESOP formation and administration
- Income and estate tax planning for family businesses
- Tax-exempt joint-venture tax planning
- Healthcare, ancillary physician investments and physician-hospital joint-ventures
- Employee fringe benefits
- Acquisition, sale and reorganization of businesses
- Professional service corporation employment matters
- Shareholder dispute resolutions and reorganizations
- Tax planning for intellectual property
Bar Admissions
- Colorado
- Illinois
- U.S. District Court District of Colorado
- United States Tax Court
Education
- Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri – 2004
J.D. - University of Denver Graduate Tax Program – 2005
LL.M - Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin – 2000
B.A. – History
Select Publications
- “Finalized IRC Section 1411 Regulations Provide Practitioners with Timely Guidance on the Intricacies of the Net Investment Income Tax,” The Colorado Lawyer, Spring, 2014
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Bar Association, Taxation sections
- Colorado Bar Association, Business Law and Taxation Law sections
- Denver Bar Association