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Sirote is pleased to congratulate one of our firm's outstanding attorneys, Brad Sklar, for being named Best Lawyers® 2021 Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) "Lawyer of the Year" in Birmingham.  

This is a great honor for Brad because only a single lawyer in each practice specialty and metropolitan area is honored as the "Lawyer of the Year," making this accolade particularly significant. "Lawyers of the Year" selections are based upon particularly impressive voting averages received during the peer review assessments. Unsurprisingly, this isn't the first time Brad has been named "Lawyer of the Year" in Birmingham: He also earned this recognition in 2018 and 2020 in Tax Law; in 2017 for Corporate Law; and in 2016 for Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships).

In addition to the "Lawyer of the Year" award, Brad was listed in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America© for Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), an honor for which he has been recognized every year since 2015; for Corporate Law (every year since 2014); for Real Estate Law (every year since 2016); and for Tax Law (every year since 2003). Brad has garnered an impressive number of awards throughout his career, including being ranked in Chambers U.S.A. (Corporate/Commercial) every year since 2012. He has been recognized by Mid-South Super Lawyers® and holds an AV-Preeminent Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™.

Brad Sklar is a current executive board member and shareholder of Sirote & Permutt, P.C., previously serving as co-chair of the firm's Corporate and Tax Practice Group. Brad focuses on complex tax, entity, and business planning transactions, including mergers and acquisitions; sales of businesses; sale and purchase structuring and funding of large real estate transactions; raising capital; and navigation of state and local tax incentives. He counsels clients in tax and business planning and entity structuring for development and business structuring. He also coordinates the planning of transactions to maximize tax benefits, reduce risk, and comply with tax law at local, state, and federal levels, including incentive and economic development opportunities. Brad is incredibly active outside the office, serving in various capacities for numerous local and civic organizations, including serving on the boards of Progress Bank, the Mountain Brook Board of Education, and the University of Alabama Law School Foundation, in addition to his other national and community positions.