Robert T. Bowsher Partner—Baton Rouge Phone: 225.381.8028 Fax: 225.387.5397 robert.bowsher@bswllp.com

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Mr. Bob Bowsher is a partner in the Baton Rouge office of Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, L.L.P. His principal areas of practice are business and corporate law, federal income tax matters, mergers and acquisitions, and securities transactions.

Mr. Bowsher has experience with the various economic incentives of including tax credits, offered by the State of Louisiana and the United States to promote new and expanded business and with the negotiation of cooperative endeavor agreements with the Louisiana Department of Economic Development and between the Louisiana Community and Technical College Systems and various non -and for-profit parties. He has extensive experience in sales, acquisitions, mergers and reorganizations of businesses in the form of corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships, as well as, the structuring and implementation of venture capital transactions and joint ventures between various types of business entities. He is counsel to a number of local and regional businesses with regard to day-to-day business matters, such as reviewing, negotiating and drafting contracts and other business agreements, providing tax advice on structuring financial arrangements, qualification of tax-exempt organizations and various other business planning matters.

Education

Board Certified Tax Specialist, Louisiana State Bar Association Specialization Board (since 1985).

Georgetown University, L.L.M. in Taxation, 1977.

University of Pennsylvania, J.D., 1973.

Yale University, B.A., 1970, cum laude.

Admissions

Admitted to Bar, 1973: Pennsylvania; 1978: Louisiana; Louisiana State and Federal Courts, United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; United States Tax Court.

Employment

Attorney-Advisor  (law clerk) to the Honorable William H. Quealy of the United States Tax Court (1976-1977).

Professional Associations

Baton Rouge Bar Association, Member

Louisiana State Bar Association, Member; Chairman, Section of Taxation, Louisiana State Bar Association (1994-1995).

American Bar Association, Sections on Taxation and Corporate and Business Law.

Awards and Honors

Listed in the 2012 edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions

Publications

Presenter and author of many articles and seminar materials on various topics in the areas of limited liability companies, tax aspects of various types of business entities, and various estate tax issues of family entities.

Representative Matters

Representation of tax-exempt corporations in connection with cooperative endeavor agreements with the State of Louisiana, bond financing and the construction of community college facilities for over $230 million and the legal problems of the corporation’s business operation.

Representation of a number of venture capital corporations in Louisiana, such as CAPCO’s and BIDCO’s in their investment in various Louisiana based businesses with transactions totaling over $15 million.

Representation of a Delaware corporation in the acquisition of five shipbuilding facilities located in Texas for over $45 million.

Representation of various companies in obtaining venture capital funds in transactions totaling over $20 million.