Bonner J. Gonzalez

Representative Experience

Business and Tax Incentives

• Serve as lead counsel to an Oklahoma-based community development entity (CDE) with New Markets Tax Credit authority.
• Structuring transactions to quality for tax incentives, including the New Market Tax Credits and various state tax credits.
• Advise public and private companies on the Oklahoma Quality Jobs program and other state and local incentives.
• Negotiated and documented a TIF economic development agreement and other incentive agreements for a $170 million office tower, hotel, underground parking garage, public realm area and innovation hall building to be located in the Innovation District of downtown Oklahoma City.
• Represented owner/developer group in redevelopment of iconic one million square foot First National Center in downtown Oklahoma City (over $250 million redevelopment project with boutique luxury hotel and premium residential units, restaurants, retail, business incubator space, and a 14-floor parking garage), including title and survey matters, condominium documents, environmental matters (including Brownfield loans for remediation of asbestos and lead paint), leasing, operation and service agreements, and project financing (including construction loans, tax increment financing through the City of Oklahoma City, new markets tax credit financing, state and federal historic rehabilitation tax credit financing, tourism tax credits, and HUD Section 108 financing).
• Negotiated and documented a TIF economic development agreement for an office building, parking garage, and hotel project located in Tulsa, OK.
• Negotiated and documented a TIF economic development agreement and other incentive agreements for a multi-phase residential apartments complex that included low-income housing tax credits and federal and state historic tax credits.
• Negotiated and documented a TIF economic development agreement for the relocation of Griffin Communications’ broadcasting company (OKC Channel 9) to the Century Center Building in downtown Oklahoma City.

Tax and Family Wealth

• Representation of businesses and individuals in asset sales and purchases, stock sales and purchases, and other merger and acquisition transactions.
• Counsel to buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions, including tax-free reorganizations.
• Income tax planning.
• Tax-deferred exchanges.
• Multi-generational wealth transfer and business succession planning.
• Company reorganizations and restructurings, including spin-offs, split-offs and split-ups.
• Representation of businesses and individuals in state and federal tax controversies, including working with the Oklahoma Tax Commission and the Internal Revenue Service.