FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Sean H. Cook was a featured speaker during a June 10, 2009 seminar in Novi titled, "2009 Tax Professionals & the IRS: Successfully Working Together."
Mr. Cook co-presented a program on "Debt Forgiveness/Foreclosure Issues" along with Robert Heitmeyer, Office of Chief Counsel, Detroit and Charles Dumas, Office of Chief Counsel, Detroit.
The seminar was presented by the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants, State Bar of Michigan, Taxation Section; Independent Accountants Association of Michigan; Michigan Society of Enrolled Agents, National Association of Tax Professionals – Michigan chapter; American Payroll Association and the American Association of Attorney Certified Public Accountants.
Based in Butzel Long's Bloomfield Hills office, Mr. Cook's diverse practice includes federal and state tax planning and controversy; general corporate law which covers shareholder and owner issues, choice of entity analysis and formation and dissolution transactions; commercial law covering contract review and UCC issues; merger and acquisitions; succession planning; estate administration; non-profit entities, and general tax planning and consultation.
Mr. Cook has helped clients buy and sell their businesses from structuring the transaction and handling the due diligence through closing and post-closing transactions. In the succession planning area, he has handled generation wealth transfers through a variety of mechanisms from traditional gifting to recapitalizations and family partnerships. In addition, Mr. Cook is a CPA with more than eight years experience with a national firm and a metro Detroit firm. This CPA background adds an extra dimension when representing clients because of his "practical experience" with complex tax rules and his experience with financial and accounting issues.
Mr. Cook has published a number of legal articles, including "Are Intermediate Sanctions on Tax-Exempt Organizations a Slippery Slope to Termination?" The Michigan Business Law Journal, (Spring 2006). Mr. Cook is a member of the State Bar of Michigan Taxation Section, the American Bar Association, and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the immediate past chair of the Federal Tax Task Force of the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants. He is a former adjunct professor at Walsh College, and served on the board of the Walsh College Alumni Association and as its President in 2000. He is currently a member of the Walsh College President's Advisory Council.
Mr. Cook graduated from Wayne State University Law School (J.D., 1995), Walsh College (M.S., Taxation, 1989) and University of Michigan (B.A., 1987).
About Butzel Long
Butzel Long is one of America's leading law firms, with 240 attorneys and offices in Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, Lansing and Ann Arbor, Michigan, New York City, Washington, D.C., Boca Raton and Palm Beach, Florida, as well as Alliance offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Mexico City and Monterrey. The firm is also a member of the Washington, D.C. law firm Butzel Long Tighe Patton. Butzel Long represents clients from diverse industries on a regional, national and multi-national level and is a member of Lex Mundi, a global association of 160 independent law firms. Visit the Butzel Long website at www.butzel.com.
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