Kenneth Clay Courville

Formation (and selection) of business entities, partnership and shareholder agreements, buy-sell and non-compete agreements, private securities offerings, commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions (reorganizations), workouts, dissolution of entities, collections related issues, human resources issues and regulatory issues.

Commercial and real estate litigation in Texas and US courts, tax litigation, securities arbitrations, commercial arbitrations and administrative proceedings

Probate, heirship proceedings, estate administration, guardianship administration, trust administration, preparation of wills, estate plans, trusts (including living trusts, irrevocable life insurance (ILIT) trusts, qualified terminal interest in property (Q-TIP) trusts, special needs (Miller) trusts and charitable trusts), estate tax and generation skipping tax planning, non-probate transfer planning, will contests, and estate and guardianship claims litigation

Tax planning for business entities, trusts and the families that control them. Additionally, collections and audit defense for US income, US estate, US gift, US excise, Texas franchise, Texas property and Texas sales taxes. Represents clients in proceedings before the US Internal Revenue Service, US Tax Court, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas Office of Administrative Hearings and Texas District Court.