Anthony F. Newton handles various general corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity placement matters. Anthony also advises clients as to the federal income tax aspects of corporate, partnership and individual tax matters; tax controversies and tax litigation at the state and federal levels; and state and local tax matters, including sales tax, franchise tax, margin tax and ad valorem tax.

Anthony recently represented: the borrower in a $26,000,000 project financing related to a biofuel tank farm, the seller in a $13,000,000 sale of the assets of a precision manufacturing company to a portfolio holding company, the seller in an $8,000,000 sale of the assets of an oil and gas services company to a publicly-held limited partnership, as well as a private equity firm in the $15,000,000 acquisition of a polymer production portfolio company. He also represented the buyer and structured a $10,000,000 two-step asset acquisition and tax deferred stock exchange, and advised the U.S. subsidiary of a foreign, publicly held company on the tax aspects of disposing of its U.S. real property holdings. In addition, Anthony successfully litigated and settled a $500,000 personal assessment of Texas sales taxes against the officers and directors of a privately held corporation for $10,000, and compromised a $475,000 income tax and employment tax assessment against a privately held oilfield services company with the IRS for $240,000.

Anthony F. Newton

Born May 25, 1968, Admitted to Bar, Texas, 2001.

Contact

713-425-3210
anewton@fcj.com

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center, 2000 (LL.M. in Taxation, with distinction)
• University of Houston Law Center, 1999 (J.D., cum laude)
• Texas A&M University, 1992

Honors & Distinctions

• Rising Stars Edition, Texas Super Lawyers, 2004
• Tax Executives Institute Scholarship, 1999
• Order of the Barons, 1998
• O'Quinn Foundation Award - Outstanding Student Writing in Constitutional Law, 1998

Publications

• The "Stat" Notice in the New Millennium - Shouldn't the Notice Be User Friendly?, 91 TAX NOTES 1139 (2001)
• Robert Kinney & Anthony Newton, Electronic Commerce, in THE LAW OF THE INTERNET IN TEXAS (NBI 2001)
• Note, Lessons Unlearned: The Supreme Court Expands the Definition of Public Employee in Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr, 35 HOUSTON LAW REV. 921 (1998)

Professional Affiliations

• State Bar of Texas (Business Law, Tax)
• Houston Bar Association (Business Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tax)
• Federal District Court, Southern District of Texas
• United States Tax Court