Habeeb Gnaim > Chamberlain Hrdlicka > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Chamberlain Hrdlicka Offices
1200 Smith Street
Suite 1400
Houston, Texas 77002
TEXAS
United States
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Habeeb Gnaim
Work Department
- Tax
- Tax Planning & Business Transactions
- Tax Controversy & Litigation
- Corporate, Securities & Finance
- Qualified Opportunity Zones
Position
Shareholder
Career
Habeeb “Hobbs” Gnaim is a Shareholder in the Firm and serves as the head of the Firm’s Tax Planning & Business Transactions Group. Mr. Gnaim also serves as a member of the Firm’s Board of Directors. Mr. Gnaim focuses his practice on tax and corporate matters, including the formation, governance, reorganization and internal restructuring of corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies to achieve tax and corporate objectives.
Mr. Gnaim has significant experience in all aspects of structuring, negotiating and implementing business acquisitions and dispositions, corporate reorganizations, mergers, conversions, recapitalizations, corporate finance transactions, deferred recognition transactions, admissions of and providing equity incentives for management and key employees, as well as choice of entity considerations, and state tax planning. Mr. Gnaim also has significant experience in working with family owned or closely held businesses on the design and implementation of business succession plans or business divorce/separation matters. He also advises individuals in personal divorce matters, along with their primary divorce counsel, on tax and corporate issues that arise with the division of complex marital estates involving substantial assets and entities.
Mr. Gnaim works with individuals, business owners, executives, chief financial officers, tax directors, outside accountants, bankers, and other advisors to provide efficient solutions to tax and corporate issues that arise in the normal day to day business setting.
Mr. Gnaim is also engaged in a tax controversy practice and represents both individuals and companies in disputes with the Internal Revenue Service and state and local taxing authorities.
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M. in Taxation, with Distinction, 2004
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D., 2003
University of St. Thomas, B.B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude, 2000