Overview
With more than three decades of experience, Craig represents individuals and business entities in matters involving structuring the tax aspects of acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, divisions, joint ventures and executive compensation. Craig also assists corporations with federal income taxation, forms corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, and appears before the IRS regarding matters such as applications for private letter rulings and technical advice memoranda.
Craig previously served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida, where he taught courses in corporate taxation and federal income tax practice and procedure. Craig was the coach of Stetson’s Tax Moot Court Team, which won the national championship in 2006 and 2007 and reached the finals in 2008.
Craig is a frequent speaker and writer and a contributing author to The Accountant’s Business Manual, published by the AICPA, with responsibility for the chapters on corporations, S corporations, limited liability companies and IRS practice and procedure. Craig is a past president of the New York University Alumni Club of Florida and received the New York University 2010 Alumni Meritorious Service Award.
Craig was previously an associate in the tax department at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City.
Honors
- Tampa Magazine, "Top Lawyers"
- Tax, 2020-21, 2023
- AV Rated as independently determined by Martindale-Hubbell
- Florida Super Lawyers, 2021-22
- The Best Lawyers in America®, 2018-25
- Florida Trend, "Legal Elite," 2019, 2022
Practices
Education
- New York University School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation, 1993
- New York University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1991
- Order of the Coif
- University of Pennsylvania, B.A., cum laude, 1988
Admissions
- New York, 1991
- Florida, 1992
- U.S. Tax Court, 1992
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1995
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1995