Frank Cureton Named 2025 Best Lawyers® ‘Lawyer of the Year’ for Tax Law in Columbia, South Carolina
April 23, 2025
The 2025 edition of Best Lawyers® has named Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A. shareholder Frank Cureton “Lawyer of the Year” for Tax Law in Columbia, South Carolina.
Frank has been ranked by Best Lawyers since 2005 in Tax Law and Trust and Estates Law since 2008. He was previously named “Lawyer of the Year” for Tax Law in 2017 and for Trusts and Estates Law in 2019.
Best Lawyers’ “Lawyer of the Year” award honors a single attorney in each practice area and region who demonstrates exceptional legal excellence. Best Lawyers employs a comprehensive peer-review process, allowing each jurisdiction to recognize its most outstanding legal talent. In 2025, approximately 5,000 attorneys nationwide received this honor through Best Lawyers’ rigorous peer-review process.
Frank is a certified specialist in Taxation Law and represents taxable entities and tax-exempt organizations in planning acquisitions, financing structures, mergers, spin-offs and dispositions. He represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service and state and local tax agencies in tax controversy matters and obtaining tax exemptions. Frank assists developers, government agencies and investors in structuring low-income housing credit, historic rehabilitation credit, and other state and federal tax credit projects. His practice also includes estate planning, individual tax planning for family business owners and professional practices for transitioning ownership.
Frank is the co-author of Bloomberg (BNA) Tax Management Portfolio No.4820-2nd Tax Issues of Educational Organizations.
HSB’s tax and estate planning practice guides clients through corporate tax, estate planning, nonprofit tax and trust and estate litigation. The corporate tax group advises corporations on federal, state and local income property tax matters and assists shareholders, directors and officers in implementing tax-efficient strategies for expansion, benefit packages, ownership succession, reorganizations and mergers and acquisitions.
Best Lawyers’ “Lawyer of the Year” award honors a single attorney in each practice area and region who demonstrates exceptional legal excellence. Best Lawyers employs a comprehensive peer-review process, allowing each jurisdiction to recognize its most outstanding legal talent. In 2025, approximately 5,000 attorneys nationwide received this honor through Best Lawyers’ rigorous peer-review process.
Frank is a certified specialist in Taxation Law and represents taxable entities and tax-exempt organizations in planning acquisitions, financing structures, mergers, spin-offs and dispositions. He represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service and state and local tax agencies in tax controversy matters and obtaining tax exemptions. Frank assists developers, government agencies and investors in structuring low-income housing credit, historic rehabilitation credit, and other state and federal tax credit projects. His practice also includes estate planning, individual tax planning for family business owners and professional practices for transitioning ownership.
Frank is the co-author of Bloomberg (BNA) Tax Management Portfolio No.4820-2nd Tax Issues of Educational Organizations.
HSB’s tax and estate planning practice guides clients through corporate tax, estate planning, nonprofit tax and trust and estate litigation. The corporate tax group advises corporations on federal, state and local income property tax matters and assists shareholders, directors and officers in implementing tax-efficient strategies for expansion, benefit packages, ownership succession, reorganizations and mergers and acquisitions.
