Paul Michael Spizzirri, Esq., is a distinguished attorney and trusted legal advisor with more than 35 years of experience delivering sophisticated, results-driven counsel to domestic and international businesses and individual clients across a broad spectrum of legal, financial, and transactional matters. Renowned for strategic insight and an unwavering record of success, Paul brings exceptional depth of expertise spanning general counsel services, complex commercial and tax litigation, expert testimony, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, and post-acquisition integration for a diverse portfolio of global enterprises. His distinguished career includes partnerships at nationally recognized firms, senior M&A roles within Big Four public accounting, and high-stakes litigation across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. This multidisciplinary background in law, taxation, accounting, finance, and academia positions Paul as a uniquely credentialed advisor capable of delivering integrated, enterprise-level counsel at the intersection of legal strategy and business performance.
Corporate and Tax Matters including mergers and acquisitions; federal, state, and local due diligence; transaction and organizational structural consulting to corporate, financial services, and private equity clientele; structured finance; and major corporate and tax planning. Managed complex business litigation matters for more than a thousand clients throughout the world over the past 35 years.
Practice Leader for the Corporate/Transactional Group and Taxation Group. Georgia Registered Lobbyist (2011–2012). U.S. Law Executive Leadership, Banking and Finance Committee (2012). Served as General Counsel to numerous business clients.
- International Transaction Advisory Services across Europe and Asia.
- Major Federal, State, and Local Tax Planning for partnerships, S corporations, and C corporations.
- Commercial Transaction Support including drafting and reviewing transaction agreements, corporate records maintenance, employment and labor matters, health law, contracts, UCC consulting, and banking law guidance.
- Personally secured two large restructuring engagements with Fortune 500 companies involving the bankruptcy restructuring of large, consolidated return groups.
- Originated cash collections of two million dollars within 18 months from new firm clients.
- Delegated ,000 worth of new engagements to 45 Partners within the first 12 months with the firm.
Transaction Advisory Services including deal structuring, due diligence, post-deal integration, tax attribute management, opinions, and ruling requests. Supervised a staff of ten consultants.
- Led a team that performed several Fortune 100 consolidated Section 382 studies and consolidated stock basis studies for multibillion-dollar international public companies.
- Directed complicated engagements requiring detailed application of consolidated return regulations including computation of consolidated tax attribute carry backs and carry forwards, tiering rules, and intercompany transactions analysis.
Mergers and acquisitions including federal, state, and local tax due diligence, transaction and organizational structuring and tax consulting to corporate and private equity clientele.
- Each due diligence engagement required review of federal, state, and local tax returns including returns for income, franchise, gross receipts, sales, use, personal property, real property, IFTA, and prorate.
- Managed a team that deployed tax products concerning Research and Development, Transaction Costs, and Uniform Capitalization Analysis (Inventory Accounting).
Transactional and organizational restructuring involving federal, state, and local income taxation, sales and use taxation, property taxation, and realty transfer taxation (SALT M&A).
Department representative in every aspect of administrative, civil, and appellate state and federal court litigation.
- Drafter of a majority of 1995 state tax legislation for Sales and Use Tax amendments, Cigarette Tax, Property Tax, and Contractor’s Excise Tax. Registered Lobbyist for the Governor’s Office, 1995.
- Property tax administrative law judge, 1995.
General practice of law including civil and criminal litigation, personal and corporate tax return preparation, business and estate planning, corporate law, and state securities law.
Practiced civil and criminal litigation, business and estate planning, corporate law and state securities law.
- Prepared personal and corporate tax returns.
- Co-defended capital murder case.
Additional Professional Experience
Investment Banking.
Taught more than 100 graduate business courses to M.B.A. and M.A.F.M. candidates including: Advanced Studies in Federal Taxes and Management Decisions (AC560); Federal Taxation (AC553); Advanced Financial Accounting and Reporting Issues (AC559); Forensic and Investigative Accounting (AC574); Legal, Political, and Ethical Dimensions of Business (GM520); and Business Law (GM597).