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Nick Jovanovich concentrates his practice in the areas of corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, estate planning, asset protection, bankruptcy tax and insolvency tax planning and tax controversies, including matters involving the IRS and the Florida Department of Revenue.

Representative Experience

  • Tax, estate planning and asset protection planning for high net worth individuals
  • Drafted complex employment agreements, shareholders’ agreements, partnership and operating agreements
  • Involved in the structuring and drafting documents for transactions involving asset sales, stock sales and tax-free reorganizations, including the sale of personal goodwill
  • Involved in the structuring and formation of charitable foundations and related tax-exempt matters
  • Served as special tax counsel to debtors involved in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganizations
  • Represented numerous companies in connection with sales and use tax disputes with the Florida Department of Revenue
  • Represented numerous companies and individuals in connection with disputes with the Internal Revenue Service regarding federal income tax, estate tax and gift tax matters
  • Represented the successful plan proponent in a series of reorganization transactions for the iconic, 700-room Pittsburgh Hilton hotel, that included our client’s acquisition of all the equity in the debtor.  These transactions included: (a) restructuring the hotel’s senior secured financing under BlackRock Capital’s $49.6 million  loan, (b) negotiating and implementing a new Franchise Agreement followed by a Hotel Management Agreement with Wyndham Hotels, (c) consummating $8 million of additional financing from Wyndham, secured by the Hotel’s equity, (d) placing up to $11 million in junior mortgage financing from our client as Plan Proponent, and (e) resolving other secured and unsecured claims

Professional & Community Involvement

  • Estate Planning Council of Broward County, 1984 - Present (Director, 1994-1996)
  • Greater Fort Lauderdale Tax Council, 1984 - Present (Director, 1991; Secretary, 1991-1992; Treasurer, 1992-1993; Vice President, 1993-1994; President 1994-1995; Advisory Committee Member, 1996 – Present)
  • Florida Advisory Council for the National Business Institute, Charter Member
  • Former Vice-Chair of the Partnership Tax Committee and the Bankruptcy Tax Committee of the Federal Tax Division of the Florida Bar Tax Section
  • Graduate of Leadership Broward, Class VII, and member of Leadership Broward Foundation, Inc.

Awards & Recognition

  • AV Rated by Martindale Hubbell
  • Florida Trend Magazine's “Legal Elite” (2006-2009)
  • The South Florida Legal Guide's "Top Lawyer” (2007-2012)
  • Florida's Super Lawyers (2006-2011)

Articles & Presentations

Articles

  • Co-Author of Chapter 37, “Reorganization and Sale of Business,” and Chapter 38, “Taxation of Rentals and Leases,” Sales and Use Tax, Florida Tax Service 2d, published by Matthew Bender
  • Chapter 7, “Capitalization and Issuance of Stock,” Florida Small Business Practice (4th Ed.) published by The Florida Bar
  • ”Family Limited Partnerships,” published in the Tax Section Bulletin of The Florida Bar, 1996
  • ”Analysis of Asset Protection Plans for Physician Practice Groups,” published by The Florida Bar Journal in March, 2004

Presentations

  • Speaker, "Advanced LLC Issues," National Business Institute (May 2011)
  • Speaker, Financial Planning Association of Broward 2010 Conference , “Tax Planning/Corporate Ownership” (April 2010)
  • Speaker, National Business Institute seminar in West Palm Beach, Florida (February, 2009) on “Understanding Complex Tax Issues for LLCs”
  • Speaker at Greater Fort Lauderdale Tax Council in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (February, 2009) on “Creative Uses of LLCs”
  • Speaker, National Business Institute seminar in West Palm Beach, Florida (September, 2008) on “Advantageous Uses of LLCs” and “Advanced Tax Issues for LLCs”
  • Speaker,Asset Protection Seminar sponsored by Ellis, Ged and Bodden in Boca Raton, Florida (March, 2008) on “Certain Exemptions and Asset Protection Planning Opportunities”
  • Speaker, National Business Institute seminar in West Palm Beach Florida (July, 2007) on “Accounting Compliance Issues”
  • Speaker, National Business Institute seminar in West Palm Beach, Florida (June, 2007) on “Uses of LLCs”
  • Speaker, National Business Institute seminar in West Palm Beach and Miami, Florida (December, 2006) on “Is an LLC Right for You?”
  • Speaker, National Business Institute seminar in West Palm Beach, Florida (April, 2005) on “Asset Protection Techniques in Florida”