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Areas of Practice:
Corporate Law and Business Organizations
Corporate Governance
Health Care Law
Limited Liability Companies / Partnerships
Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures
Securities Law
Taxation Law
Real Estate Transactions
Development and Finance
Like-kind Exchanges
Mr. Gardner is a partner in the firm and his practice primarily focuses on corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, asset dispositions, taxation, real estate transactions, financings and health care transactions and related matters since joining the firm in 1989. He also serves as head of the firm's Health Care practice group. He has extensive experience in representation of parties in corporate and pass through entity formations, operations, reorganizations and disputes; merger and asset purchase and sale transactions; the formation and syndication of health care entities such as practice groups, surgery centers and hospitals; real estate and like-kind Section 1031 exchange transactions; and debt and equity financings.
Certification/Specialties:
Certified Public Accountant (inactive), Arkansas, 1987
Bar Admissions:
Arkansas, 1988
U.S. Tax Court, 1989
Education:
University of Florida College of Law, Gainesville, FL , 1989
LL.M. Tax, Master of Laws in Taxation
University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, Little Rock, AR , 1988
J.D.
Law Review: University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, Managing Editor, 1986 - 1988
Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, 1984
B.S.Acct., Bachelor of Science in Accounting
Honors and Awards:
Listed in The Best Lawyer in America under Corporate Law and Tax Law Categories, 2001 - Present
Recommended in Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions in Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2005 - Present)
Listed in Who's Who Legal USA - Corporate Governance 2006 -
Listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers Business / Corporate 2006 -
Professional Associations and Memberships:
Arkansas Bar Association, 1988 - Present
Tax Section (President 1999-2000)
Arkansas Bar Foundation
Fellow
American Bar Association, 1988 - Present
Tax Section
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 1987 - Present Member
Arkansas Society of Public Accountants, 1987 - Present Member
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Pulaski County (former Big Brother and Board Member)
American Heart Association, Arkansas Affiliate (former Board Member)
Birth Information:
August 16, 1962.
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