Robert T. Bowsher Partner—Baton Rouge Phone: 225.381.8028 Fax: 225.387.5397 Email: 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, mergers and acquisitions, securities transactions and federal income tax and estate matters.  Mr. Bowsher 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

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

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.

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.

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 a Delaware corporation in the acquisition of five (5) shipbuilding facilities located in Texas for over $45 million.

Representation of a tax-exempt corporation in connection with the bond financing and the construction of community college facilities for over $55 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 various companies in obtaining venture capital funds in transactions totaling over $20 million.