Stanley
H.
Hackett
Partner
Atlanta
Business Phone:
404.885.3154
Business Fax:
404.962.6579
stanley.hackett@troutmansanders.com
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Stanley is a partner at Troutman Sanders and works in a variety of matters relating to state and federal taxation, and matters involving employee benefit plans. His work includes planning, compliance, transactions, and civil and criminal tax and employee benefits controversies.
Representative Experience
Generally, transactions and controversies in federal tax and ERISA areas.
Counsel to various plan sponsors and employee benefit trusts in matters relating to plan assets and asset management, tax, fiduciary, and contract matters; extensive work in reviewing and negotiating investment structures for alternative equity and real estate; tax and fiduciary issues involving company stock; issues involving trust and corporate owned life insurance.
Counsel to various individual and corporate clients in a number of IRS or DOL (ERISA) civil examinations or criminal investigations.
Counsel to an accident and health insurance company for over 25 years in connection with tax and employee benefit matters, including deferred compensation, employee/independent contractor issues, taxation of various insurance products.
Counsel to a publicly-traded bakery in connection with an IRS examination of the employment tax status of several thousand product distributors.
Counsel to a chain of physician-owned physical therapy centers; structured, reorganized and ultimately sold; primary issues were federal taxation and anti-fraud and abuse laws.
Counsel to a group of nursing homes in DOL investigation of a multiple employer health insurance arrangement; primary issues involved ERISA, federal taxation and Medicaid.
Counsel to various group self-insurance trust funds (worker’s compensation) in connection with issues of federal and state taxation
Other Distinctions
Selected as a Super Lawyer by Law & Politics and Atlanta Magazine for Tax Law excellence (2004-2010
Named to Georgia Trend magazine’s Legal Elite in taxes, estates, and trusts (2004-2009)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America in Tax Law in the 2007-2011 editions
Work Experience
Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP, 1985-present
Private Practice of Law, 1974-1985
Chief Legislative Assistant to Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC), 1973-1974
Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, 1971-1972