Sean H. Cook
- Partner
My admin
- Wendy Mullins
industries
practices
- Tax
- Tax Controversy Litigation
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Corporate
- Securities and Corporate Governance
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Business Startups and Early Round Financing
- Closely Held Businesses
- Trusts and Estates
- Estate Settlement and Trust Administration
- Family Business and Succession Planning
- Fiduciary Representation
- Fundamental Estate Planning
- Tax Planning
- Counsels many businesses on the buy and sell side of acquisitions.
- Assists businesses with tax issues in a variety of transaction, including choice of entity issues, issuance of incentive ownership to employees, capital formation and cross-border transactions.
- Assists clients in purchase or sale of businesses, from structuring the deal to handling due diligence, closing and post-closing matters.
- Lead attorney in successful sale of Mount Brighton Ski Resort to Vail Resorts in 2012.
- Lead attorney in successful sale of $40 million U.S. auto stamping plant to an international conglomerate.
- Lead attorney with restructuring U.S. entities as part of an international restructuring of a global auto supplier.
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- Counsels many businesses on the buy and sell side of acquisitions.
- Assists businesses with tax issues in a variety of transaction, including choice of entity issues, issuance of incentive ownership to employees, capital formation and cross-border transactions.
- Assists clients in purchase or sale of businesses, from structuring the deal to handling due diligence, closing and post-closing matters.
- Lead attorney in successful sale of Mount Brighton Ski Resort to Vail Resorts in 2012.
- Lead attorney in successful sale of $40 million U.S. auto stamping plant to an international conglomerate.
- Lead attorney with restructuring U.S. entities as part of an international restructuring of a global auto supplier.
- Assisted auto supplier in a joint venture arrangement with another supplier.
- Structured the post-bankruptcy legal organization for an auto supplier.
- Represented several business owners in negotiated separation agreements.
- Engages with individuals to address their estate planning needs.
- Assists in succession planning, through generation wealth transfers, traditional gifting, family partnerships, recapitalization and other methods.
- Represents private foundations, assisting with tax or corporate governance issues.
- Handled several applications for tax-exempt status for new organizations; helped organizations come into compliance and converted a for-profit organization to nonprofit status.
- Local counsel for national retailer in successful claim for refund of sales tax.
- “Remote Work,” Warner 2022 HR Seminar In-Person Event, May 4, 2022, Grand Rapids, Michigan
- “Considerations for Remote Employees,” Warner Webinar, November 17, 2020
- “New Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”),” Warner Webinar, April 1, 2020
- “Remote Work,” Warner 2022 HR Seminar In-Person Event, May 4, 2022, Grand Rapids, Michigan
- “Considerations for Remote Employees,” Warner Webinar, November 17, 2020
- “New Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”),” Warner Webinar, April 1, 2020
- Family Business Forum Radio Show, September 26, 2019 (works best if viewed/listened to using Internet Explorer)
- Family Business Forum Radio Show, June 27, 2018 (works best if viewed/listened to using Internet Explorer)
- Family Business Forum Radio Show, December 27, 2017 (works best if viewed/listened to using Internet Explorer)
- Family Business Forum Radio Show, May 31, 2017 (works best if viewed/listened to using Internet Explorer)
- “P/E Client Meet Reality and Let’s Get Ready to Sell,” MiCPA Mergers and Acquisitions Conference, May 23, 2017, Troy, Michigan
- Family Business Forum Radio Show, March 29, 2017 (works best if viewed/listened to using Internet Explorer)
- Featured speaker, Walsh Institute Leadership Center’s Business Transitions Annual Conference, Nov. 1, 2012, Troy
- Frequent speaker, Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants, 2001-Present
- Changes in Tax Law and the Impact on Business, Automation Alley, March 30, 2011, Troy
- New Michigan Law Should Create Federal Tax Savings for Pass-through Entity Owners
- New Michigan Law Should Create Federal Tax Savings for Pass-through Entity Owners
- “The Rich Poor: Planning for estates under $10,680,000 and Counting (or repurposing the current plan),” ICLE presentation, February 2014
- “Federal Income Tax Consequences of Same-Sex Couple Marital Status After U.S. v. Windsor and Rev. Rul. 2013-17,” Michigan Tax Lawyer, Fall 2013
- “Tax Provisions of Health Care Reform: Whether a Cure or a Catastrophe, It Is Here,” Bloomberg Law Reports – Health Law, July 2, 2010
- “Federal Tax Forum,” Michigan Tax Lawyer, Fall 2006
- “Are Intermediate Sanctions on Tax-Exempt Organizations a Slippery
- “The Rich Poor: Planning for estates under $10,680,000 and Counting (or repurposing the current plan),” ICLE presentation, February 2014
- “Federal Income Tax Consequences of Same-Sex Couple Marital Status After U.S. v. Windsor and Rev. Rul. 2013-17,” Michigan Tax Lawyer, Fall 2013
- “Tax Provisions of Health Care Reform: Whether a Cure or a Catastrophe, It Is Here,” Bloomberg Law Reports – Health Law, July 2, 2010
- “Federal Tax Forum,” Michigan Tax Lawyer, Fall 2006
- “Are Intermediate Sanctions on Tax-Exempt Organizations a Slippery Slope to Termination?,” The Michigan Business Law Journal, Spring 2006
- “New Like Kind Regulations Highlight Old Planning Opportunities,” Michigan Tax Lawyer, Fourth Quarter 1994
