Alex M. Denault is a Partner and member of the firm’s Business, Finance & Tax Team, resident in its Miami office. He advises clients on a broad range of domestic and international transactional tax matters including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures, internal restructurings, and other tax matters.
His practice centers on advising multinational organizations, private equity funds, real estate developers, closely held businesses, entrepreneurs, and high-net-worth individuals. He assists his cross-border clients with inbound and outbound tax structuring, real estate investments, FIRPTA, acquisition financing, transfer pricing and tax treaty concerns.
Alex has extensive experience concerning estate planning and trust preparation, expatriation and pre-immigration tax planning, wealth transfer tax, and U.S. income tax compliance for high-net-worth families and family offices. His experience includes establishing charitable organizations, such as Section 501(c)(3) charities and private foundations, and counseling domestic and foreign charitable organizations on tax-exempt status and other U.S. income tax matters.
Alex is a leader on Corporate Transparency Act compliance.
He is a frequent speaker and author on a variety of tax topics.
- Led $1 billion M&A deal for a non-US publicly traded energy company acquiring a US based operating business, managing cross-border tax structuring and purchase and sale agreement negotiation.
- Advised Fortune 500 company on internal tax-free reorganizations of multiple subsidiaries and business lines.
- Represented Native American Tribe on $400 million acquisition of a US-based gaming investment.
- Assisted business owners on the sale of an S corporation via a tax-free reorganization which included structuring acquisition debt, transaction expenses, earn outs, and tax-deferred rollover equity.
- Advised non-US real property development company on $100 million US real property acquisition, advising on inbound tax structuring, FIRPTA tax planning, income tax treaties and other international tax matters.
- Obtained an IRS Private Letter Ruling (PLR) for a Type-III Private Foundation concerning exemption from the Section 4943 excess business holdings excise tax.
- Created cross-border Private Trust Company (PTC) structure for a non-US based billion dollar family office.
- Opportunity Zone Magazine, Recognized as a “Top 25 Opportunity Zone Influencer”
- The Greater Miami Tax Institute, Inc. (Past President, 2016)
- Miami-Dade County Bar Association
- Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce
- Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce
- Association for Corporate Growth of South Florida
- Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
- Florida Bar Tax Section
- American Bar Association (Vice Chair of Young Lawyers Division of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Committee, 2013)
2018
“Opportunity Zones: Pending IRS Regulations Poised to Facilitate Investments," Co-Author
July 8, 2019
"Why PE Funds Should Consider Qualified Opportunity Zones,” Co-Author
April 9, 2019
June 15, 2017
October 2023
June 3, 2020
January 29, 2020
“Qualified Opportunity Zones Roundtable,” Panelist
January 30, 2019
Opportunity Zone Expo, “What’s Going On: Understanding the Potential of Your Investment,” Panelist
January 25, 2019
“Navigating Opportunity Zone Opportunities,” Panelist
January 16, 2019
April 27, 2018
December 15, 2017
June 17, 2017
Martin County Estate Planning Council, “International Tax and Estate Planning,” Speaker
January 21, 2016
October 21, 2010
- KPMG (US) LLP, Managing Director, Mergers & Acquisitions Tax
- Akerman LLP, Partner, Tax Practice Group