Steven L. Brinker

Steve is a partner with the firm and Chair of the Business Law Group. He focuses on corporate and business law and assists clients with the formation, financing and development of business entities, including corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships.  He also represents businesses and their owners in transactions including mergers, stock sales and asset sales as well as local, state, and federal governments, housing authorities, and special purpose authorities. 

As part of his transactional practice, Steve advises medical practices and health care providers on transactional and operational issues unique to the health care field.

Steve’s experience as a tax attorney allows him to advise business clients in tax law matters, including the tax consequences of mergers, acquisitions and other business transactions, and help develop a plan to address and mitigate negative tax consequences.  His practice also includes advising tax-exempt entities in all aspects of corporate and federal tax law, including obtaining and retaining federal tax-exempt status.


Education
Georgetown University Law Center LL.M., Taxation, Graduate with Distinction, Dean’s List, 2005
Washington & Lee University, J.D., Thomas Smith Purdie Scholarship, 2002
University of Virginia, B.A., 1999
Bar/Court Admissions
Virginia
Delaware (Inactive)
District of Columbia
Community Involvement
Washington & Lee University Alumni Association—Tidewater Chapter (President)
Representative Experience
Articles and Presentations
  • Represent businesses in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions and entity formations.
  • Assist business owners with business succession planning, including drafting buy-sell agreements, shareholder agreements, operating agreements, trusts and other relevant documents.
  • Form and structure joint ventures, including preparation of relevant documents.
  • Assist alternative energy producers with project acquisitions and dispositions, and power and gas sales.
  • Represent physicians and dentists in practice sales and acquisitions.
  • Represent senior living facility operators in facility acquisitions and dispositions.
  • Prepare applications for federal tax-exemption and reinstatement of federal tax-exemption following revocation.
  • Represent franchisees in business and franchise matters.
  • Serve as loan counsel to banks.
  • Represent entities in the acquisition, financing, development and disposition of real estate.
  • A Stock Purchase for Tax Purchases and an Asset Purchase for Nontax Purposes—How to Use an F Reorganization to Get There (April 2010)
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Virginia Business Announces 24th Edition “Legal Elite”
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CWM Attorneys Recognized by Virginia Super Lawyers®
Posted on May 6, 2022
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Virginia Business Announces 22nd Anniversary “Legal Elite”
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CWM Attorneys Recognized by Virginia Super Lawyers®
Posted on May 11, 2021
Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, P.L.C. is pleased to announce that eight of its lawyers have been selected for inclusion in the 2021 list of Virginia Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars. …...
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Virginia Business Announces 21st Anniversary “Legal Elite”
Posted on December 30, 2020
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Virginia Business Announces 20th Anniversary “Legal Elite”
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Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, P.L.C. Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s 2017 “Legal Elite”
Posted on November 13, 2017
Crenshaw, Ware & Martin is proud to announce that four of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized by Virginia Business Magazine among Virginia’s “Legal Elite” for 2017.  Each year in…...
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CWM Attorneys Recognized by Virginia Super Lawyers®
Posted on April 17, 2017
Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, P.L.C. is pleased to announce that nine of its lawyers have been selected for inclusion in the 2017 list of Virginia Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars. …...
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Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, P.L.C. Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s 2016 “Legal Elite”
Posted on November 30, 2016
Crenshaw, Ware & Martin is proud to announce that five of the firm’s attorneys have been recognized by Virginia Business Magazine among Virginia’s “Legal Elite” for 2016. Steven L. Brinker…...
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