P. Prestin Weidner

Honors

• The Best Lawyers in America^® (2021-2025)
• Chambers USA: Key Contact, Tax (2022-2024)
• TAMPA Magazine's Top Lawyers (2023)
  • Tax Law

Education

Florida State University, B.S., 2001, magna cum laude

• Beta Gamma Sigma
• Golden Key
• Phi Kappa Phi

Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 2004

• Order of the Coif
• Vanderbilt Law Review: Articles Editor
• Moot Court Board

Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., 2005, Distinction: Graduate Tax Scholar

Bar Admissions

American Bar Association

The Florida Bar

Hillsborough County Bar Association

Experience

• Representing a Tampa-based private equity fund in connection with the formation of its fund and the structuring of its portfolio investments.
• Representing Baldwin Risk Partners, one of the fastest growing independent insurance brokerage firms in the country, as corporate counsel, in connection with the corporate reorganization completed to facilitate its initial public offering (NASDAQ: BRP).
• Representing TowerCom, a Jacksonville, Florida-based communications tower developer, as it received an equity investment from M/C Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm. This investment will allow TowerCom to continue to execute on its robust tower build plan on behalf of national and regional wireless
• Serving as transaction tax counsel to Atchafalaya Measurement, Inc., a Louisiana-based portfolio company of KLH Capital, a Tampa-based private equity fund, in its sale to Southern Petroleum Laboratories, Inc.
• Serving as transaction tax counsel to a portfolio company of a Tampa-based venture capital fund in connection with its recapitalization and investment by another private equity fund.
• Serving as transaction tax counsel to the shareholder of Freedom Boat Club in connection with its sale to Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC).
• Serving as transaction tax counsel to Argus Dental & Vision, Inc. and its owner in its sale to Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL).
• Serving as transaction tax counsel to HireQuest Holdings, LLC in its merger with Command Center, Inc., creating HireQuest Inc. (NASDAQ: HQI).
• Serving as transaction tax counsel to Chris Craft Corporation, a recreational boatbuilder headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, in its sale to Winnebago Industries, Inc. (NYSE: WGO).
• Representing a NYSE-listed public company in connection with the long-term and equity incentive compensation programs.
• Serving as outside tax counsel to a financial services firm in connection with its broker reporting and tax compliance requirements.

Community & Professional

• Epilepsy Services of West Central Florida, Inc.
  • Past President (2018-2019)
  • Board President (2017-2018)
  • Former Director
• Hyde Park United Methodist Church
  • Scholarship Committee (2016-2018, 2021)
  • Permanent Endowment Fund Committee (2012-2014): Chair (2014)
• High Risk Hope, Inc.: Advisory Board, Former Member

• American Bar Association: Tax Section
• The Florida Bar: Tax Section, Former Chair, Annual moot court competition
• Hillsborough County Bar Association: Tax Section