Overview
Robert M. Ritchey is a member of the firm’s Taxation and Business Organizations & Transactions practice groups.
Areas of Practice:
Business Organizations & Transactions
Taxation
Admissions:
Alabama State Bar
Member, Alabama Board of Bar Examiners, 1996-present
Member:
Montgomery County Bar Association
American Bar Association
Member, Sections on Taxation, Real Property,
Probate and Trust Law
Biography
B.S., University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1982
J.D. (magna cum laude), Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, 1985
LL.M. in Taxation, New York University, 1986
Other:
Member and Associate Editor, Cumberland Law Review, 1984-85
Experience
Robert M. Ritchey is a member of the firm’s Taxation and Business Organizations & Transactions practice groups.
During his twenty years of practice Robert Ritchey has assisted a wide variety of closely-held business organizations with all aspects of their operations, including formation issues, merger and acquisition transactions, and business succession and family planning matters.
Robert Ritchey’s educational background in accounting and tax allows him to advise clients on a broad range of complex business and legal planning matters, and to understand and work, on a team approach, with his client’s other professional advisors.
In addition to his business organization and commercial transaction work, Robert Ritchey works extensively with all types of tax-exempt and non-profit organizations, including community foundations and private family foundations. This work includes both entity formation matters and the process of applying for and obtaining tax-exempt status.
Recent Speeches and Presentations:
“Change Alabama with Giving Alternatives,” Alabama Giving, a charitable gifting network, 2004