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Resume of
Layton L. Pace, Esq.
Layton L. Pace has headed his own law practice for over five years
in Manhattan Beach, California. Prior to opening his own practice, he practiced law for over twenty years at the law
firms of Baker, Burton & Lundy, A Professional Corporation, in Hermosa Beach, California, Ervin, Cohen & Jessup, LLP
in Beverly Hills, California and Stoel Rives LLP in Portland, Oregon. Layton worked 16 of those
years as a partner and associate at ECJ, where he was the working head of its income tax and state and local tax practices.
Mr. Pace’s practice focuses on federal
and California income, franchise, sales and use and property taxation of foreign and domestic partnerships, limited
liability companies, C corporations, S corporations and individuals engaged in a wide spectrum of business and real estate-related
activities. His practice involves designing, evaluating and implementing business structures and tax strategies
and handling tax controversies with federal and state governmental authorities. Specific examples of Mr.
Pace’s practice areas include structuring Section 1031 exchanges, forming and converting partnerships, limited liability
companies and corporations, advising and implementing divisive and acquisitive tax-free reorganizations, drafting and implementing
shareholder and redemption agreements, reviewing compensation arrangements, advising clients regarding inbound investments
in United States, providing tax and legal advice and documentation for stock and asset purchases, and resolving tax controversies
at various stages with the U.S. Tax Court, IRS, California Franchise Tax Board, California Board of Equalization and
local governments.
Mr. Pace is the 2008 recipient
of the V. Judson Klein Award. The Taxation Section of the California State Bar presents the V. Judson Klein Award annually
to a tax practitioner in mid-career purportedly for possessing a keen and imaginative intellect, a true passion for the law
and great personal integrity.
Mr. Pace
is a past member and advisor to the Executive Committee of the Taxation Section of the California State Bar.
He is a past chair of the Taxation Section’s Business Entities Committee, was Federal Tax Editor of its publication,
the California Tax Lawyer, and is currently active on several of its substantive committees. Mr. Pace is currently
an at large member of the Executive Committee and past chair of the Business Entities Committee of the Taxation
Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He is an inactive member of the Oregon State Bar and
the Washington State Bar Association.
Mr. Pace speaks frequently and writes on various real property, limited liability company, partnership, S corporation and
other federal and California tax-related topics, including seminars sponsored by the California CPA Education Foundation,
the California State Bar, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and other organizations. He has written and presented
three position papers on partnership tax issues to the federal government in Washington DC, which can be found at the following
links:
http://www.lacba.org/Files/Main%20Folder/Sections/Taxation/Files/Layton_Pace.pdf http://www.lacba.org/Files/Main%20Folder/Sections/Taxation/Files/2007-6.pdf http://www.lacba.org/Files/Main%20Folder/Sections/Taxation/Files/2002%20DC%20Papers.pdf
Mr. Pace graduated cum laude from UC Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, California in 1987.
He received an undergraduate degree in Business Administration (accounting concentration) from the University of Washington
in Seattle, Washington in 1980.
Before attending law school, Mr. Pace worked as a cost accountant for AT&T Technologies in Sunnyvale
and Anaheim, California, a legal intern for US Sprint in Burlingame, California and as a tax intern at Coopers & Lybrand
in San Francisco, California.
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