International & Cross Border Transactions
Wealth Preservation & Estate Planning
Bryan S. Appel
Partner
Bryan S. Appel is a Florida Bar Board Certified Tax attorney who strategically applies his accounting roots as both a corporate and a transactional tax attorney. He concentrates his practice in domestic and international tax and wealth planning while assisting the firm’s corporate and real estate practice groups in analyzing, structuring, negotiating, and drafting business transaction documents in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint venture, private equity and financing transactions to achieve tax efficiency.
As a key member of the firm's Corporate Transparency Act Task Force and innovation team, Bryan adds value by prioritizing technology to ensure each client matter is handled in an efficient and effective manner. Outside the office, Bryan is an avid golfer as well as South Florida and college sports fan.
Awards & Honors 
- The Best Lawyers in America®, "Ones to Watch" 2022-2026
- Florida Super Lawyers "Rising Star", 2023-2025
Community Activities / Associations
- Florida Bar
- Tax Section
- Business Law Section
- 6 Degrees Golf
- Broward County Bar Association
- Penn State – Greater Fort Lauderdale PSU Alumni Chapter
- Jewish Federation of Broward County
- Greater Fort Lauderdale Tax Council
- Nova Southeastern University Ambassadors Board
- NSU Law Leadership Council
- Leadership Fort Lauderdale, Class XXVI
In the News
Twenty-Three Berger Singerman Attorneys Recognized in 2025 Edition of Florida Super Lawyers
June 26, 2025
Bryan Appel Achieves Board Certification in Tax Law by The Florida Bar
June 1, 2025
March 21, 2025
Berger Singerman Announces 2025 Elevations
January 1, 2025
Fifty-Six Berger Singerman Attorneys Recognized in the 2025 Edition of Best Lawyers In America
August 15, 2024
March 12, 2024
Forty-Three Berger Singerman Attorneys Recognized in the 2023 Edition of Best Lawyers In America
August 18, 2022
June 15, 2022
Thirty-Nine Berger Singerman Attorneys Recognized in the 2022 Edition of Best Lawyers In America
August 19, 2021
Berger Singerman Expands Business, Finance and Tax to Support Growth of Corporate Practice
July 31, 2018
Publications
January 4, 2024
November 29, 2023
Client Alert - COVID-19: Key Tax Components of Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
December 29, 2020
Daily Business Review, "Before Taking a PPP Loan, First Consider the Employee Retention Credit"
April 16, 2020
Client Alert - COVID-19: CARES Act: Important Tax Code Changes
March 29, 2020
South Florida Business & Wealth, "How to Get Employer Tax Credits for Paid Sick Leave, Family Leave"
March 26, 2020
Daily Business Review, "Tax Extenders: Limited Benefits and Limited Certainty for Limited Taxpayers"
January 6, 2020
Law360, "Sometimes GILTI Is A Pleasure"
January 30, 2019
Events & Speaking Engagements
November 11, 2020
November 5, 2019
Bryan Appel, Panelist, "NSU's Tax Law Panel," for The Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Society
April 9, 2019
December 13, 2018
November 14, 2018
Doing Business in Florida Blog
March 6, 2024
November 30, 2023
October 18, 2023
Don’t Ignore Those IRS Notices!
January 20, 2020
Sometimes It’s Good to be GILTI
January 17, 2019
Tax Breaks for Investment in Opportunity Zones – Proposed Treasury Regulations
October 29, 2018
Tax Aspects of Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds – A Prequel
August 28, 2018