Nationally-recognized tax attorney and real estate transaction strategist Lou Weller and Boutin Jones have a formal strategic alliance to give our clients who undertake complex business transactions—especially those involving the exchange of property—sophisticated tax planning advice. Among the clients who most benefit from this alliance are real estate developers, business clients and partnerships throughout the Western United States. The alliance also gives Weller’s clients immediate access to our top-notch legal services covering a multitude of practice areas.

About Lou Weller

Lou Weller, Managing Partner of Marin County-based Weller Partners LLP, has served as National Director of Real Estate Transaction Planning and National Director, Like Kind Exchange Services at Deloitte Tax LLP and practiced law with the national law firm Bryan Cave LLP. He has extensive experience designing and implementing strategies for real estate and business asset acquisitions, transfers, exchanges, leases, financing work-outs, business start-ups, limited liability companies, partnership and joint venture formations, transactions involving REITS and capital-raising through placement of partnership interests and stock.

He has written extensively about cutting-edge tax issues in a number of nationally-acclaimed journals and been invited to speak at every major national tax institute. He serves as the Real Estate Department editor of the Journal of Taxation and is the past Chair of the Real Estate Committee of the American Bar Association Tax Section and of that committee’s Subcommittee on Like-Kind Realty Exchanges. He is a Founder and the Co-Chair of the annual Jeremiah Long Advanced Seminar on Internal Revenue Code Section 1031 and a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel.