Douglas Turner Coats, Counsel

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  • I believe in explaining complex tax issues in a way that clients can understand them.

    Doug ensures that his clients take full advantage of tax saving opportunities.

Contact

dcoats@gfrlaw.com
410-576-4002

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Doug is Chair of the firm's Tax practice group and has significant experience in the planning and structuring of sophisticated business and tax transactions for companies involving corporations and flow-through entities (including LLPs, LLCs and S corporations). He has advised and represented clients in connection with the sale of their companies, in the form of both asset and equity transactions, and has also represented clients in business acquisitions. Doug also provides third-party opinion letters.

He advises clients of all sizes with respect to various types of tax matters. Doug has also represented individual and business taxpayers in matters before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and state taxing authorities.

Doug is an integral part of the firm's Energy & Environmental practice group where his work includes:

  • Drafting, reviewing and negotiating solar power purchase agreements (PPAs), including issues related to appropriation of funds by governmental entities;
  • Drafting, reviewing and negotiating payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreements with respect to Maryland property taxes; and
  • Analyzing tax issues, including issues related to the transfer of property by electricity generators to public utilities under IRS Notice 2016-36.

Doug joined Gordon Feinblatt in November 2015. Prior to joining the firm, Doug was Counsel with Rosenberg Martin Greenberg in Baltimore and an Associate with Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP in Wilmington, DE, and Venable, LLP in Baltimore. Prior to practicing law, Doug was a senior tax consultant with Deloitte & Touche, LLP in Baltimore.

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Contact

dcoats@gfrlaw.com
410-576-4002

Teams

Business
EMERGE
Energy & Environmental
Financial Services
Health Care
Mergers & Acquisitions
Real Estate
Tax

Education

J.D., magna cum laude, University of Baltimore School of Law, 1999
B.A., Loyola College, 1989

Court Admissions

U.S. Tax Court

Bar Admissions

Maryland, 1999
Delaware, 2009