(September 5, 2006. Manchester, NH.) - Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green Attorney Peter T. Beach of Mill Valley, CA, a shareholder with the firm, has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America by Woodward/White, a national research firm. Beach is one of 23 SPB+G attorneys to be honored for their outstanding work and distinguished reputations. Beach, who was named to the list for both his mergers and acquisitions and tax law practices. Nearly half of the firm's 49 attorneys in New Hampshire made the 2007 list.
Beach's practice covers a broad range of tax matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs, tax-free reorganizations, workouts, partnerships, S corporations, limited liability companies, international taxation, state and local taxation, and tax-exempt organizations. He has represented clients in many industries, including: software, telecommunications, healthcare, real estate, natural resources, private equity and venture capital, logistics and education. He has assisted both small private and large public companies in connection with tax planning and controversy matters throughout his career. Beach is also a frequent contributor to professional journals and presenter at tax seminars.
Beach is a 1978 graduate from Maharishi University and graduated Cornell University Law School in 1984.
Of the 23 attorneys named to the list, 22 are shareholders with the firm (with one being "of counsel"), eight are on the list for the first time, seven have been on the list at least 10 years, and three have been on the list for at least 20 years.
Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definite guide to legal excellence in the United States. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which 16,000 leading attorneys throughout the country cast more than a half million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."
Sheehan Phinney is a regional business law firm with offices in Boston, MA, Manchester, Concord and Lebanon, NH. The firm provides a broad range of sophisticated legal services to businesses and institutions in traditional and emerging areas of the law. Its diverse client base includes local and regional organizations, as well as national and international businesses with interests in the Northeast.
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