- Represented two large New Hampshire hospitals in constitutional litigation challenging the New Hampshire Medicaid Enhancement Tax resulting in a ruling that the enabling statute was unconstitutional and leading to a landmark settlement with the State of New Hampshire.
- Represented three New Hampshire hospitals in Medicaid Enhancement Tax administrative refund claims resulting in millions in dollars of refunds for each hospital.
- Reached favorable settlements with the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration on behalf of taxpayers challenging the constitutionality of a New Hampshire law requiring certain pass-through and disregarded entities to increase New Hampshire gross business profits in connection with transfers of beneficial interests that result in increases in basis for federal tax purposes.
- Provided tax planning and tax due diligence for both strategic and financial buyers and sellers with a wide range of market caps.
- Provided guidance for non-profit education/healthcare organization issuing tax-exempt bonds to fund program facilities in multiple states.
- Successfully negotiated no-change settlement agreement with New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration resulting in multimillion dollar state-tax savings for multinational corporation with federal transfer-pricing adjustment.
Peter has been engaged in providing tax advice exclusively since 1984. He began his career as a tax associate at Miller & Chevalier in Washington, DC and joined Sheehan Phinney in 1996. In 2001, Peter moved to the West Coast as a partner in Ernst & Young’s National Office West, specializing in the taxation of mergers and acquisitions. He returned to Sheehan Phinney in 2004.