E. Sterling Moose Busbee
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Meet Sterling
Sterling Busbee is a tax attorney and focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, economic development and corporate law.
Sterling's experience includes:
- • Tax planning for domestic and international companies
- • Mergers and acquisitions
- • Negotiating and drafting fee in lieu of tax (FILOT) agreements and other incentives including job development credits and job tax credits
- • Business formation and entity structure planning, including drafting articles, bylaws and operating agreements
- • Drafting and reviewing conservation easements
- • Trust and estate planning
- • Formation and governance of charitable and nonprofit entities
Education
- New York University, LL.M., Taxation, 2017
- University of South Carolina, J.D., cum laude, 2016
- Clemson University, B.S., Accounting, cum laude, 2013
Admissions
- South Carolina, 2016
- North Carolina, 2017
Honors and Awards
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch Corporate Law (2023-2024), Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2023-2024) and Tax Law (2023-2024)
- Order of the Coif
Professional and Civic Activities
- University of South Carolina School of Law Young Alumni Council, Member (2020-2023)
- South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division, Co-Chair of Professional Development Committee (2024-Present), Co-Chair of Membership Committee (2020-2023)
- Association for Corporate Growth
- Leadership Charleston, Class of 2022
- Richland County Bar Association, Advisory Committee, Young Lawyers Chair (2020-2021)
- Junior League of Charleston
Presentations and Publications
- “The Corporate Transparency Act – New Federal Requirements Effective January 1, 2024,” HSB Blog, January 3, 2024
- “Corporate Transparency Act,” Charleston Tax Council, November 16, 2023
- “Estate Planning in the COVID-19 Era,” HSB Blog, May 14, 2020
- “Re-Emergence of the C-Corp,” SCRA Launch & Learn Webinar, March 4, 2020
- “The Re-Emergence of the C-Corporation,” HSB 2019 Corporate Law for Accountants Seminar Series
- “Planning Under the 2017 Tax Act” (Panelist), Charlotte City Club, Charlotte, NC, April 24, 2018
- “Hot Topics for Nonprofits” (Panelist), North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, November 6, 2018
