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ReadDavid M. Knutson
Partner
- Location:
- Spokane
- Phone:
- 509.755.2068
- Fax:
- 509.282.8373
- Email:
- dknutson@hawleytroxell.com
Biography
Dave Knutson’s practice incorporates a wide range of business and personal law, most of which involves some aspect of tax planning.
Dave counsels clients on business formation and operations, reorganizations, mergers, acquisition and sales of professional service entities, and estate tax planning. As one of the few attorneys in the Spokane area specializing in probate law, Dave assists clients with the administration of probates and trusts, draws up TEDRA agreements and handles complex 1031 exchanges. He also advises clients in the creation and qualification of nonprofit corporations and counsels corporate boards on governance and operational issues. Dave has been recognized by Martindale-Hubbell with their highest peer review rating of AV Preeminent.
SIGNIFICANT REPRESENTATION
- $10 million stock sale of manufacturing company
- $8 million sale via reverse triangular merger of telecommunications company
- $27 million stock sale of manufacturing company
- $3 million acquisition of agricultural concern
- $10 million leasehold improvement exchange
- $39 million acquisition of commercial office building
PROFESSIONAL/COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS
The Rypien Foundation, General Counsel
Spokane Area Business Foundation, General Counsel
Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County, Board and Executive Committee Member
St. Joseph’s Parish, Pastoral Counsel
Catholic Foundation, Finance Committee
Catholic Charities Housing Board
Gonzaga University School of Law, Adjunct Professor
EDUCATION
Law School:
Georgetown University, LL.M. Taxation with distinction, 1996
Gonzaga University, J.D. cum laude, 1994
Undergraduate:
University of Washington, B.A., 1990
BAR ADMISSIONS
Washington
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