Sipe Law Firm ("SLF") is located in the Wells Fargo Center on Main Street in historic downtown Rock Hill, York County, South Carolina. SLF is a South Carolina limited liability company, and is also registered in Virginia as Sipe Law Firm, PLLC. The principal is W. Henry (Hank) Sipe III.
Hank has over twenty-three years of legal experience in the areas of Estate Planning and Estate/Trust Administration, Business/Corporate Law and Tax. Hank's interests also include Sports Law, and he is a member of the Sports Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association Sports Committee, Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries.
An alumnus of Woodberry Forest School, Hank graduated from the University of Virginia with distinction in 1979, and received his law degree from the University of Richmond in 1983. After law school, he clerked for United States District Court Judge William M. Acker, Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama. Hank earned a Masters in Tax Law (LL.M.) from Georgetown University Law Center in 1988, and is a Certified Tax Specialist (SC). He is admitted to practice law in South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia (inactive). Prior to establishing his own law firm, Hank was a partner with Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, LLP (now K&L Gates), headquartered in Charlotte, NC, and Hamilton Martens Ballou & Sipe, LLC in Rock Hill, SC.
Hank is rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell®, signifying that he has been ranked by his peers at the highest level of professional excellence. He is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America®† in the dual categories of Trusts and Estates, and Tax Law, and is listed in South Carolina Super Lawyers®‡ (2009). Sipe Law Firm is also named in U.S. News-Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" as a First Tier law firm in the categories of Trusts & Estates Law and Tax Law in the Charlotte metropolitan area.
Hank's practice includes the following:
- Federal and State Taxation
- Tax Controversies
- Estate Administration/Probate
- Trust Administration
- Estate Planning
- Wills
- Trusts and Estates
- Choice of Entity/Entity Formation
- Business Succession
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- Limited Liability Companies
- Contracts
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Purchase/Sale of Business
- Business Reorganizations
- Charitable Giving
- Nonprofit/Tax-Exempt Organizations
- Wealth Transfer
- Sports Law
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† The Best Lawyers in America® (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC) is widely regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Lawyers are selected for inclusion on the list through an exhaustive peer-review survey in which thousands of the top lawyers in the United States confidentially evaluate their peers.
‡ © 2012 Super Lawyers® is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc., Minneapolis, MN. South Carolina Super Lawyers® is an annual listing of outstanding lawyers around the State who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Only five percent (5%) of the total lawyers in the State are selected for inclusion.