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    Ryan Q. Moon

    Partner

    Baton Rouge
    225-376-0295
    ryan.moon@phelps.com
    Areas Of Focus
    BusinessTaxTax Controversies

    Ryan Moon practices in the areas of business, finance and tax law. Ryan represents individuals and businesses in the areas of federal taxation, state and local taxation, estate planning, business formations and business transactions.

    Experience

    • Representing individuals, estates and businesses involved in tax examinations, audits, appeals and litigation with the Internal Revenue Service, Louisiana Department of Revenue and local taxing authorities.
    • Structuring transactions and businesses to minimize federal, state and local tax liability.
    • Advising clients on various types of entity and joint venture formations, advising buyers and sellers in the acquisition and sale of small and large businesses and general counseling of both established and emerging businesses.
    • Assisting new and expanding businesses to secure federal, state and local tax and business incentives.
    • Representing individuals and businesses, including Certified Public Accountants and their clients, in researching complex tax issues.
    • Advising clients with respect to and the drafting of wills, trusts, nonprofit organizations and family limited liability companies, as well as representing clients in succession matters.
    • Providing advice to nonprofits on formation, corporate governance, tax exemption and compliance with tax exempt law.

    Insights

    • April 25, 2025

      Phelps Advises CF Industries on Development of New $4B Low-Carbon Ammonia Facility…

    • April 1, 2025

      Phelps Advises Premier Equipment Corp in Acquisition by OTC Technologies…

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    • July 3, 2024

      Phelps Advises Renasant Corporation in Sale of Renasant Insurance to Sunstar Insurance Group…

    • March 16, 2023

      Phelps Advises Kindle Energy in $750 Million Magnolia Power Station Project…

    • May 10, 2021

      Phelps Represents First Guaranty Bancshares, Inc. as Co-Counsel in $34.5 Million Public Offering of Depositary Shares…

    • April 23, 2021

      Phelps Represents Bollinger Shipyards in $28.6 Million Acquisition of Gulf Island Fabrication’s Shipyard Division…

    • April 8, 2021

      Phelps Represents Cypress Membership Medicine in Merger with SignatureMD…

    • September 4, 2020

      Phelps Represents Renasant Corporation in Public Offering of $100 Million of Subordinated Notes…

    • September 3, 2020

      What Employers Need to Know Before Joining the New Payroll Tax Deferral Program…

    • May 14, 2020

      SBA Clarifies PPP Certification Requirements for Borrowers…

    • April 2, 2020

      What Small Businesses Need to Know to Get (Potentially Forgivable) Loans from the COVID-19 Stimulus Bill…

    • March 27, 2020

      Breaking Down the Record $2.2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Act…

    • March 18, 2020

      Washington's Response to Coronavirus: Certain Tax Matters…

    • January 31, 2020

      Phelps Dunbar Represents Wampold Companies in Purchase of Historic New Orleans Whitney Bank Building…

    • December 12, 2019

      Phelps Dunbar Represents Providence Photonics in Strategic Investment from FLIR Systems…

    • February 4, 2019

      Phelps Team Advises PosiGen on $90M Credit Facility…

    • September 5, 2018

      Phelps Dunbar Advises Renasant Corporation in $474 Million Acquisition of Brand Group Holdings…

    Recognition

    • Louisiana Super Lawyers- Rising Stars (2017 - 2019)
    • Louisiana Super Lawyers- Rising Stars (2017 - 2019)

    Education

    • University of Florida, Levin College of Law, LL.M., Taxation, 2010
    • Louisiana State University Law Center, J.D./D.C.L., cum laude, 2009
    • McNeese State University, B.S., Accounting, summa cum laude, 2005
    • University of Florida, Levin College of Law, LL.M., Taxation, 2010
    • Louisiana State University Law Center, J.D./D.C.L., cum laude, 2009
    • McNeese State University, B.S., Accounting, summa cum laude, 2005

    Credentials

    • Louisiana
    • U.S. Tax Court
    • Louisiana
    • U.S. Tax Court

    Memberships and Affiliations

    • Louisiana State Bar Association - Taxation Section; Corporate & Business Law Section
    • Baton Rouge Bar Association
    • American Bar Association
    • Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute (2012)
    • Louisiana State Bar Association - Taxation Section; Corporate & Business Law Section
    • Baton Rouge Bar Association
    • American Bar Association
    • Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute (2012)
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    • Transactional Tax
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