William B. Bill Sherman

William B. Bill Sherman

Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida
20+ years experience
Holland & Knight LLP
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515 East Las Olas Boulevard, Suite 1200, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
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Bio

William B. Sherman is a partner in Holland & Knight's Fort Lauderdale office. Mr. Sherman serves as chair of the firm's Tax Team and concentrates his practice in the area of domestic and international taxation. He has provided sophisticated tax planning for mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures and investments for clients in diverse industries, such as hospitality, petrochemicals, aluminum, tobacco, real estate, transportation, telecommunications, retailing, investment management, pharmaceuticals and numerous others. In addition, Mr. Sherman has experience in a broad range of transactions involving United States investment overseas, foreign investment in the U.S., as well as international, federal, state and local taxation issues involving structuring investment management funds, corporate reorganizations, partnerships, equipment leasing, Subchapter S, executive compensation, stock options, and trusts and estates. Mr. Sherman is a well known lecturer and chairs the New York University's Summer Institute in Taxation's Introductory and Advanced International Tax Seminars, and its Institute on Federal Taxation International Tax Program. Mr. Sherman is also an adjunct professor of Tax Law at the University of Miami, Graduate Tax Program. He is admitted to practice in New York and Florida and has served on numerous panels with The Florida Bar and the American Bar Association, where he is the immediate past chair of the American Bar Association's Tax Section Committee on U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties. William B. Sherman is a partner in Holland & Knight's Fort Lauderdale office. In addition, Mr. Sherman has experience in a broad range of transactions involving United States investment overseas, foreign investment in the U.S., as well as international, federal, state and local taxation issues involving structuring investment management funds, corporate reorganizations, partnerships, equipment leasing, Subchapter S, executive compensation, stock options, and trusts and estates. Mr. Sherman is a well known lecturer and chairs the New York University's Summer Institute in Taxation's Introductory and Advanced International Tax Seminars, and its Institute on Federal Taxation International Tax Program. Mr. Sherman is also an adjunct professor of Tax Law at the University of Miami, Graduate Tax Program. He is admitted to practice in New York and Florida and has served on numerous panels with The Florida Bar and the American Bar Association, where he is the immediate past chair of the American Bar Association's Tax Section Committee on U.S. Activities of Foreigners and Tax Treaties.

Practice Areas

Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law

Awards & Recognition

  • Lawyer of the Year: Litigation and Controversy - Tax, Fort Lauderdale (2020)
  • Recognized: Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
  • Recognized: Litigation and Controversy - Tax
  • Recognized: Tax Law
  • Special Focus: Tax
  • Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated
  • Chambers USA – America's Leading Business Lawyers guide, Tax, 2009-2016
  • Florida Super Lawyers magazine, 2015, 2016

Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2005

Education

  • Brooklyn Law School, J.D.

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