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GENERAL. Jason Stone is a tax and business lawyer at the Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors & Roberts, P.C. law firm.  His practice concentrates on the formation, acquisition, disposition, operation, and liquidation of business entities of all types and sizes and he has served clients in the fields of real estate, advanced technologies, health care, agriculture, manufacturing and finance.. PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION. • Chambers USA, Corporate/M&A, Iowa Ranked Up and Coming 2010• The Best Lawyers in America­ 2010 and 2011, Tax Law; 2011, Corporate Law.. REPRESENTATIVE ENGAGEMENTS. • Advising one of the nation's largest federated cooperatives on tax-free reorganizations, liquidations and joint ventures; • Advising a publicly traded diversified financial services company on tax-free reorganizations, debt offerings and compensation matters; • Advising a publicly traded manufacturing company on critical federal income tax issues; • Advising a publicly traded media company on tax-free exchanges of personal property;  • Advising leading real estate companies on various corporate and tax matters including, but not limited to, state and federal income and property tax matters, with a special emphasis on state and federal income tax credits; • Advising buyers and sellers on acquisitions and dispositions in transactions of various sizes; • Advising numerous non-profit corporations on compliance matters including federal income tax exemption, intermediate sanctions, and joint-ventures;  • Advising producers, film and motion picture companies on Iowa and Film Tax Credits.• Advising various business entities on state income, sales and use tax disputes; and  • Advising a community development entity on matters related to the deployment of its initial $45,000,000 and subsequent $50,000,000 New Market Tax Credit Allocation.

David practices primarily in the area of taxation. He provides a broad range of tax counsel to small businesses on topics including federal and state income tax planning, taxation of employee benefits, equity structure and mergers, and succession planning. He also counsels and advises clients with respect to the management of their wealth to minimize estate and inheritance taxes through the use of asset protection trusts, grantor trusts, powers of appointment, lifetime gifts, QTIP trusts and generation skipping trusts. As part owner of a family farm operation, David provides income tax, FICA tax and succession planning counsel to many farm clients.