Stephen L. "Steve" Phillips
Phillips Golden LLP
Recognized since 2013
Austin, Texas
Tax Law
REAL | RELIABLE | CREATIVE | PRACTICAL
Steve is a tax and business attorney in Austin, Texas, USA, and a founding member of Phillips Golden LLP. He has been continuously Board Certified in Tax Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1994.
He collaborates with domestic and international entrepreneurs and investors to help them identify, grow, enjoy, and monetize their real and intangible assets, ideas, and resources, both here and abroad.
Past and current clients include cutting-edge high technology leaders, ranching and oil and gas magnates, inventors and purveyors of "low-tech" consumer products and services, prominent investors, celebrities, thought-leaders, and philanthropists.
His ideal client understands the need for a seasoned tax and business legal counsel with experience in sophisticated investment and entrepreneurial matters, a worldwide perspective, and a keen eye for the ever-present business and personal tax implications of an investment or business endeavor.
His firm's legal services are delivered in a comfortable and creative setting, without pretense, and free of artificial (and expensive) delivery methods, and with the most advanced technological tools available.
Typical representations include: Private investment and closely-held business analysis and structure; family holding company organization and reorganization; real estate investment and development; cross-border transactions (inbound and outbound) involving real estate, services, and goods; angel and other private equity and debt funding; business operations, dissolution, M&A, and other exits; individual and partnership taxation; executive and equity compensation issues, including deferred; liquidity event pre- and post-planning; repatriation of foreign assets from entities and trusts; worker classification planning and controversy; business & individual migration relocation to and from the U.S., and interstate; complex estate and asset planning.
Contact & Links
- Lawyer Page: https://www.phillipsgolden.com
- E-mail: sphillips@phillipsgolden.com
Location
- Building Three, Suite 400
1250 South Capital of Texas Highway
Austin, TX 78746
Languages
- English
Demographics
- Sex: Male
Education
- The University of Texas, J.D., graduated 1985
- The University of Texas, BBA, graduated 1982
Bar Admissions
- Texas, State Bar of Texas
Affiliations
- United State Fifth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals - Member
- American Bar Association - Member (Taxation and Business Law Sections)
- Austin Bar Association - Member
- State Bar of Texas - Member (Taxation Section)
- Texas Board of Legal Specialization - Board Certified (Tax Law)
- United States District Court, Western District of Texas - Member
- United States Tax Court - Member
Court Admissions
- Western District of Texas Federal District Court
- United States Tax Court
- Federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Recognized in The Best Lawyers® in America 2023 for work in:
- Tax Law
Awards:
- Named Best Austin Tax Lawyer in the Austin Business Journal (2005)
- Recognized as “Outstanding Rotary Member” - North Austin Rotary Club (1995)
Tell us a little bit about your practice and what makes it unique.
What common questions are you asked by clients, and what are your answers?
What is most challenging about your area(s) of expertise?
Studying and digesting the tax law, gleaning the important and key features of that law, and then clearly communicating its application to my client and their investment or business transactions makes for long hours.
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