Tom Falkner, JD

With over 14 years of state and local tax experience, Tom leads HBK’s SALT Center of Excellence, focusing on direct and indirect tax consulting and compliance for businesses across manufacturing, construction, consumer products, real estate, hospitality, professional services, software, and healthcare. He is sought out by sophisticated investors and strategically acquisitive organizations for his experience with state and local tax mergers & acquisitions issues.

Tom understands the complex SALT challenges facing diverse clients:

• Time-sensitive transactional due diligence processes identifying state and local tax risks and opportunities
• Remediation of pre and post-acquisition income and non-income tax matters while maximizing enterprise value
• Optimizing business structures and transactions based on varying state and local tax rules
• Minimizing state and local tax assessments and efficiently resolving controversy matters
• Adapting and complying with multistate reporting requirements for complex corporate and pass-through entity groups

Through Tom’s leadership of the SALT Center of Excellence, clients receive holistic, current and relevant advice in the ever-evolving state and local tax landscape.