Mark Tizabgar, Of Counsel to Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, has broad tax, business, and accounting experience spanning over twenty-eight years of planning, structuring, and modeling acquisitions, internal restructuring, reorganizations, and partnership structures in domestic and cross-border transactions by private equity groups, private companies, public corporations, and family offices. Mark specializes in planning and structuring taxable and tax-free acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, spin-offs, joint ventures, and consolidated groups. A significant part of Mark’s tenure has been with the national tax offices of large firms, advising clients across a variety of industries.
Mark’s practice focuses on tax aspects of domestic and cross-border transactions and restructuring, including preparation of tax opinions and ruling requests for private and public companies. Mark has been involved in many strategic acquisitions for U.S. and foreign public and private corporations as well as roll-up transactions and recapitalizations by private equity groups. Mark frequently advises clients on sell-side strategies targeted at optimizing tax efficiencies of transactions for the sellers. Mark’s practice also includes advising clients in connection with the tax aspects of debt restructurings and bankruptcies.
Mark is the co-author of the Bloomberg BNA Portfolios 564 T.M., Related Party Transactions; 782 T.M., Boot Distributions and Assumption of Liabilities; and 768 T.M., Stock Sales Subject to Section 304. Mark has served as adjunct professor with Golden Gate University’s Masters of Taxation program, where he taught such topics as Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders, Corporate Reorganizations, and Taxation of Consolidated Groups of Corporations. Mark has frequently presented and spoken on a broad range of tax topics related to mergers and acquisitions at national tax conferences, including the USC Gould School of Law Tax Institute and the Tax Executives Institute.