Leigh Griffith

Leigh Griffith has helped clients grow their business from the startup stage to multimillion-dollar business entities. His practice focuses on tax and business law, including tax structuring for transaction-oriented businesses, healthcare companies, private equity firms, Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) and partnerships. Clients and colleagues regularly turn to him for his deep knowledge of tax at the state and national levels to structure transactions, business organizations and family office investment structures and to evaluate tax positions.

With the advantage of being based in Nashville, he also focuses on the intersection of nonprofit tax law, for-profit tax law and healthcare regulatory law. He created the first LLC in the state of Tennessee and was the principal draftsman for the Tennessee LLC Act.

Mr. Griffith is also a sought-after seminar leader for continuing professional education programs and has a featured column, "The Passthrough Partner," in Taxes Magazine, published bimonthly by CCH Tax and Accounting. His background as a certified public accountant has contributed to groundbreaking legal work, including:

• creation of the first LLC in Tennessee
• development of the Double Holdco LLC structure for the home healthcare industry
• principal draftsman of the Tennessee LLC Act
• participating in the first life insurance/annuity combination securitization, recognized by the rating agencies as a new security and a new asset class
• American Bar Association Tax Section Advisor to National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws - Series of Unincorporated Business Entities Drafting Committee

Excited by the intellectual challenges presented by the ever-changing landscape of tax laws, Mr. Griffith provides advice that "looks around the corner" and he "looks out the windshield rather than just in the rear-view mirror."