Fred F. Harris

Tallahassee D +1 850.222.6891 T +1 850.222.6891

Fred F. Harris focuses his practice on structuring and documenting complex business transactions, including those for renewable energy projects, public-private partnerships, taxation, corporate and dispute resolution.

Fred has a .580 lifetime Batting Average.

Concentrations

Structuring complex corporate and business transactions
Drafting and reviewing transactional documents
P3 transactions
Renewable energy projects
Tax litigation
Municipal finance
Dispute resolution
Blockchain/cryptocurrency

Kompetencje

Tax Corporate Public Finance & Infrastructure Mergers & Acquisitions Education Trade Secrets

Doświadczenie

Representative Transactions

Represented the Florida Residential Property and Casualty Joint Underwriting Association (now Citizens Property Insurance Corporation) establishing, through federal litigation, that it is an entity classified as an integral part of the State of Florida, and not subject to federal income tax and obtained a $250,000,000 refund of previously paid federal income tax.
Represented the Florida Windstorm Underwriting Association establishing it as an entity not subject to federal income tax and obtained a $250,000,000 refund of previously paid federal income tax.
Represented the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association obtained an IRS private letter ruling holding it to be an entity not subject to federal income tax.

Non-Profit Structuring

Represented the Florida Association of Court Clerks (“FACC”) and its wholly owned interstate services company, CiviTek National, Inc., assisted in the structuring of the companies, advised on unrelated business income aspects of software licensing to non-Florida clerks associations, assisted in PPP loan application.

Sukcesy i wyróżnienia

Nagrody i wyróżnienia

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law; Securities / Capital Markets Law; Tax Law; Public Finance law, 2010-2024
- "Lawyer of the Year," Corporate Law, Tallahassee, 2014 and 2022
Member, Winning Team, "North American Transport Deal of the Year," IJ Global Americas Awards, for the Interstate I-4 expansion in Orlando, 2014
Team Member, Corporate Board Member magazine and FTI Consulting Inc., one of "America’s Best Corporate Law Firms," 13th Annual Legal Industry Study, 2013
Listed, Florida Super Lawyers, 2006, 2009
Recognized, Bond Buyer Red Book, "Bond Counsel"
Rated, AV Preeminent^® 5.0 out of 5.0

°AV^®, AV Preeminent^®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished^SM and Martindale-Hubbell Notable^SM are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell^® certification procedures, standards and policies.

Członkostwo w organizacjach zawodowych

Chairman, Tallahassee Friends of the Library Endowment Trust
Former Board Member, Community Foundation of North Florida
Member of the Board of Munroe School, Quincy, Florida
President, Mind, Body & Spirit, Inc.
Vice President and Co-Founder of Truthseekers, Inc.
Former Chair, Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Cancer Center Ride for Hope
Former Commissioner, Winthrop Park Little League Association
Former President, Tallahassee Habitat for Humanity

Kwalifikacje

Wykształcenie

LL.M., Taxation, University of Florida Levin College of Law
J.D., Stetson University College of Law
- Member, Stetson Law Review and author of an article entitled: "State Taxation of Income Earned Beyond Its Borders: Allocation and Apportionment of Unitary Business Income in Florida."
B.A., Auburn University

Posiadane uprawnienia

Florida
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
U.S. Tax Court