Mitchell W. Goldberg
Partner
Mitchell W. Goldberg is a member of the firm’s Business, Finance & Tax Team and the Wealth Preservation and Tax Planning Group. He is a Board Certified Specialist in Tax Law by The Florida Bar and concentrates his practice in the areas of federal income, estate, gift, and generation skipping transfer taxation and related business transactional matters. Mitchell counsels businesses and individuals on choice of entity for both new business ventures and for restructuring ongoing businesses in order to achieve desired economic and tax results. Mitchell collaborates with members of the firm’s corporate, estate planning, real estate, and other practice groups in the analysis and drafting of sophisticated business transactions including asset purchase and sale agreements, stock purchase agreements, mergers, joint ventures, limited liability company operating agreements, partnership agreements and other contractual arrangements to provide tax efficient structures that maximize value.
Mitchell’s international tax practice includes counseling nonresident aliens investing in the United States (in-bound transactions) on different methods to minimize exposure to U.S. taxes, pre-immigration tax planning for nonresident aliens desiring to become U.S. tax resident or U.S. citizens, and counseling U.S. persons desiring to invest outside the United States (out-bound transactions) on the most effective structures to defer U.S. tax, minimize exposure to taxation in multiple jurisdictions, and other desired tax and economic results
In addition, Mitchell represents taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service in connection with audits, IRS Appeals, installment agreements, offers in compromise, penalty abatements, offshore voluntary disclosures, and other administrative matters.
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Awards & Honors 
- South Florida Business & Wealth Up and Comer award finalist
- Florida Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2017-2018
Community Activities / Associations
- Member, The Florida Bar
- Tax Section of The Florida Bar
- New Tax Lawyers Committee Co-Director, 2015-2016
- Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County
- Business and Professional Cabinet
- Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce
- Leadership Boca, Class of 2017
- South Palm Beach County Bar Association
- Young Lawyers Section President, 2014-2015
- Taxation Committee Co-Chair, 2013-2014
Prior Affiliations
Gutter Chaves Josepher Rubin Forman Fleisher Miller P.A.
Representative Matters
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Represented BBX Capital [a public company trading on the NYSE] in the three stage acquisition of the Altman Companies, a real estate development platform primarily operating in South Florida, which includes a construction company which has historically acted as the general contractor for the platform, and separate development company and management companies. The first stage of the purchase required the creation of a joint venture between BBX [the Buyer] and the owner of the Altman Companies [the platform] which was followed by the purchase by BBX [the Buyer] of a 50% interest in the Altman Companies [the platform companies] for $22.7 million, and then a contribution of all of the interests of each of BBX [the Buyer] and the owner of the platform companies to the joint venture. Subject to certain conditions the Buyer] BBX will purchase an additional 40% of the Altman Companies [the platform companies] through the joint venture on the 4th anniversary of the original acquisition, for an additional $9.4 million.
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Represented a 100+-store franchisee of a national quick-service restaurant chain in an investment bank-led sales process that generated aggregate sale proceeds of more than $200 million. The sales process encompassed multiple transactions with four unaffiliated sophisticated buyers, seven affiliated selling entities, a national franchisor with the power to block or influence the transaction, and assets located in multiple states, leading to a complex transaction negotiation and structure. Advised the client in connection with the marketing process, definitive agreements, and concurrent closings.
Publications
Doing Business in Florida, "The New Deduction for Pass-Through Entities and Sole Proprietorships"
January 22, 2018
January 16, 2018
December 26, 2017
South Florida Legal Guide - 2017 Edition, "The Tax Yin to the Immigration Yang"
January 5, 2017
Doing Business in Florida, "Death, Taxes, Insurance, Oh My!"
December 13, 2016
Doing Business in Florida "Beware of the Tax Traps of Employer-Owned Life Insurance Contracts"
September 7, 2016
August 8, 2016
Doing Business in Florida, "IRS and Treasury Department Clarify COD Income Exclusions"
June 16, 2016
Daily Business Review, "With Panama Papers Going Public, US Tax Penalties Come Into Play"
May 26, 2016
Doing Business in Florida, "New Proposed Regulations Require Disclosure of Foreign Ownership"
May 10, 2016
Doing Business in Florida, "Panama Papers Going Public"
April 29, 2016
The Florida Bar, "IRS Thinks Certain Profits Interests Are Too Good To Be True"
January 1, 2016
Events & Speaking Engagements
November 15, 2018
June 13, 2018
Mitchell Goldberg, Speaker, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act CLE
March 21, 2018
Mitchell Goldberg, Speaker, "Tax Topics for U.S. Persons," Greater Miami Tax Institute
March 14, 2018
June 14, 2017
March 7, 2017
May 20, 2016
In the News
Thirty-One Berger Singerman Attorneys Recognized in 2018 Edition of Florida Super Lawyers
June 18, 2018
January 26, 2018
Berger Singerman Elevates Gina Clausen Lozier, Mitchell W. Goldberg and Iryna Ivashchuk to Partner
January 2, 2018
August 31, 2017
Thirty-Two Berger Singerman Attorneys Recognized in the 2017 Super Lawyers Florida Edition
June 9, 2017
Berger Singerman Guides Cargo Airline From Bankruptcy to Sale
April 20, 2016
Practice Teams
Practice Areas
International & Cross Border Transactions
Medical Marijuana Advisory Group
Private Equity & Venture Capital
Wealth Preservation & Estate Planning
Education
J.D., cum laude, University of Florida
B.S. in Business Finance, cum laude, University of Florida
LL.M. in Taxation, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Bar Admissions
Florida
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
U.S. Tax Court