Mike Petrik is chair of the firm’s State & Local Tax Group. He concentrates his practice on sophisticated, multistate tax planning and disputes for businesses, including income tax, franchise tax, sales/use tax and other state and local taxes. Mr. Petrik has extensive experience in developing and implementing new corporate structures designed to achieve multistate tax efficiencies. He also maintains an active administrative tax dispute and negotiation practice, including audit appeals, the negotiation of special filing or apportionment methods and voluntary disclosure “amnesty” applications.
Mr. Petrik is a frequent lecturer before professional groups and has authored or contributed articles appearing in various national tax journals. He is a member of the editorial advisory boards of several tax publications and has also been the Georgia correspondent for State Tax Notes. Mr. Petrik is listed in Georgia Trend’s "Legal Elite," The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and Super Lawyers magazine. Prior to teaching a course on state and local taxation at Georgia State University, he was an instructor at the Atlanta Law School, where he taught courses on constitutional law.
- Represented a Fortune 50 multinational corporation in negotiating a creative filing agreement with a state revenue department resulting in tax savings in excess of $100 million.
- Represented a Fortune 50 retailer in structuring a private REIT in order to achieve multistate tax savings in excess of $100 million.
- Represented a multinational auto manufacturer in connection with a constitutionality of dividends received deduction. The Maryland Department of Revenue conceded after the filing of initial pleadings.
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April 30, 2012
In The Press
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September 12, 2011
In The Press
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July 5, 2011
In The Press
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August 30, 2010
In The Press
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June 11, 2010
In The Press
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March 29, 2010
Community Service
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June 12, 2009
In The Press
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January 21, 2009
In The Press
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July 11, 2008
In The Press
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Feb 21, 2008
In The Press
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17 September 2007
In The Press
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15 June 2007
In The Press
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23 February 2007
In The Press
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December 2011
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December 2006
Publications
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“Multistate Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings,” Practising Law Institute, January 2006.
2006
Past Events
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June 26-29, 2011
Seminar
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March 12, 2009
Seminar
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October 28, 2008
Seminar
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April 3, 2008
Seminar
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May 2006
Seminar
- Member of the Taxation Sections of the State Bar of Georgia and Atlanta Bar Association.
- Currently serves as a trustee on the following boards: Salvation Army, the Vasser Woolley Foundation (vice chair), Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta (emeritus advisory), St. Pius Catholic High School (chair), Brother Rice Catholic High School (Chicago), and United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta.
- Serves on the St. Joseph’s Mercy Foundation Advisory Council for Compassionate Care and the Tax Committee of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
- Past chair of Leadership Atlanta.