Erik P. Doerring

Experience

Corporate/International

• Represents and advises dental/dental practice clients in business structure and growth, operational legal matters, associate compensation/employment agreements, private equity investment, and M&A legal matters
• Served as counsel in multiple organizations and partnerships involving property acquisitions, financing, and syndicated investment of low income tax housing tax credits
• Served as counsel for alternative energy clients, including solar farms
• Served as counsel for United States affiliate of German multinational heavy truck component manufacturer, with multiple foreign subsidiaries in Brazil, Germany and the Caribbean
• Advised client in planning and establishment of foreign-based payroll and employment affiliate for United States multinational corporation
• Represented foreign-financed high-tech companies in private placement investments
• Served as counsel in $46 million venture capital investment in logistics and supply business
• Served as counsel in sale of $250 million portfolio of residential real estate/rental properties

Economic Development

• $130 million automotive systems and industrial components supplier expansion
• $500 million/$350 million co-generation power plants
• $50 million automotive steel processing facility
• $100 million expansion of steel manufacturing component facility
• $200 million expansion of polymers manufacturing facility
• Multiple expansions involving over $120 million in combined investment for fiber-optic cable development and manufacturing plants
• $200 million expansions of automotive bearing manufacturer
• $50 million expansion of aerosol system manufacturing facility and relocation of North American headquarters
• $500 million in expansions of pulp paper mill facilities.
• $100 million adhesives manufacturing facility
• $60 million truck engine component manufacturer facility
• $250 million in expansions of diversified photographic component manufacturer campus facility
• $50 million port distribution facility and related expansions
• $15 million milk processing facility
• $10 million expansion of biofuel processing facility
• $5 million automotive component scrap processing facility
• $20 million food distribution facility and related expansions
• Multiple expansions of cement production facility involving over $50 million in investment
• $10 million carbon black distribution facility
• $50 million heavy truck component manufacturing facility and related expansions
• $10 million employment call center
• $30 million semi-conductor manufacturing and research and development facility and related expansions

Tax Controversy

• Represents clients in IRS income tax audits, administrative appeals, and United States Tax Court and United States District Court tax litigation
• Represents clients in IRS estate and gift tax audits, appeals and litigation
• Represents clients in bankruptcy tax litigation involving IRS and state tax claims
• Represents clients in IRS and state department of revenue audits, appeals and litigation involving the defense of conservation, facade and historical preservation easements
• Represents and advises clients in micro-captive insurance arrangements and related IRS audits
• Represents clients in state sales and use and income tax audits, appeals, and litigation
• Represents clients before the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce and administrative hearing officers in disputed South Carolina Unemployment Insurance tax cases
• Represented hundreds of individuals and businesses in IRS and state tax collection matters, including offers in compromise, installment agreements, tax liens releases/discharges, trust fund investigations, innocent spouse, bankruptcy/tax advice, collection due processing proceedings, and civil tax enforcement litigation
• Represents clients in IRS and state department of revenue criminal tax investigations, grand jury proceedings, and related criminal defense litigation
• Represents and advises clients in Internal Revenue Service Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Programs involving unreported foreign bank accounts
• Represented client in successful settlement of contested IRS Tax Court proceedings involving client's assertion of bona fide residency in the United Stated Virgins Islands and resisting IRS efforts to tax the client's income in the United States.
• Represented clients in resolution of United States Tax litigation involving for low income housing tax credit
• Represented client in South Carolina administrative law court proceeding involving biofuel energy credit
• Represented client in South Carolina Circuit Court proceedings involving county transportation impact fee refund
• Represented client in IRS income tax audit and appeal of sand mines and related mining operations
• Represented municipal client in South Carolina Circuit Court proceedings involving property tax refunds
• Represented county client in county board of assessment appeals commercial building valuation case
• Represented municipal client in county board of assessment appeals valuation/exemption case involving marina property
• Represented client in South Carolina administrative law court proceeding involving valuation of smelting facility
• Represented multiple related clients in IRS transferee liability investigation and resulting United States Tax Court litigation and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals defense. The Tax Court victory for the clients and subsequent successful Court of Appeals defense became national precedent for the issues presented in the cases
• Represented national certified public accounting firm tax professionals in successfully defending efforts by the South Carolina Department of Revenue to revoke administrative licenses to practice (including South Carolina administrative law and circuit court proceedings)
• Represented non-profit client in South Carolina administrative law court proceeding involving educational tax credit
• Served as counsel in IRS audit, appeal and resulting United States Tax Court litigation involving $50 million income tax deficiency asserted against a United States multinational corporation and foreign affiliates, with over 250 separate adjustments and issues, including transfer-pricing, treaty-based competent authority proceedings, inventory valuation, and officer compensation
• Qualified expert witness and related testimony in South Carolina administrative law court case involving South Carolina administrative tax procedures
• United States District Court mediator in federal tax cases

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