Mark S. Samila

Experience

• Provides complex estate planning services for clients with taxable federal estates.
• Counsels clients on business succession planning and wealth transfer issues.
• Represents banks and borrowers in bank and bond financing.
• Represents banks and borrowers in workouts of troubled loans.
• Represents business owners in purchase and sale of businesses.
• Provided tax and management consulting to privately-owned businesses for the international accounting firm of Ernst & Young.
• Certified Public Accountant.

Mark has been involved in transactions including the following:

• Sale of Sterling Boiler & Mechanical, Inc.
• Sale of A & D Constructors, Inc.
• Sale of Wabash Container Corporation
• Sale of Mood Media Franchises
• Sale of Mulzer Crushed Stone, Inc.
• Sale of Fire and Rain, LLC
• Investment in Addixxion Resources of Kentucky, LLC
• Purchase of Matt’s Cookie Company, Inc.
• Purchase of XMi Holdings, Inc.
• Purchase of Coburn Ford
• Purchase of Marshall Chevrolet
• Purchase of Lindsay Lincoln Mercury
• Sale of 104.1 FM – WIKY
• Sale of 96.1FM – WSTO
• Sale of 107.5 FM – WABX
• Sale of 93.5 FM – WLFW
• Sale of 92.9 FM – WJXA
• Sale of 96.3 FM – WCJK
• Sale of 97.5 FM- WJXB
• Sale of 95.7 FM – WVRX
• Sale of 103.5 FM – WIMZ
• Sale of Research Systems Corporation
• Sale of Leisure Living West, LLC
• Deaconess Bond Financing

Publications

• “SCOTUS Decision Opens Door for States to Collect Sales Tax on Internet Sales,” Article Published on KDDK.com, Author (June 2018)
• “Estate Planning After the New Tax Act,” Presenter, 72nd Annual IOGA Annual Trade Show and Convention (February 2018)
• “Significant Estate Planning Opportunities for High Net Worth Individuals,” Article Published on KDDK.com, Author (January 2018)
• “GOP Tax Bill Prompts Late Tax Tips for 2017,” Article Published on KDDK.com, Author (December 2017)
• “New IRS regulations will soon have an adverse impact on many family owned businesses,” Article Published on KDDK.com, Author (September 2016)
• “Act Now: IRS Expected to Issue Regulations that will Adversely Affect Wealth Transfer,” Article Published on KDDK.com, Author (August 2015)
• “Legal Updates Regarding Land Development” and “Commercial Property Purchase and Lease,”  Kahn, Dees, Donovan & Kahn Seminar, Presenter (May 2015)
• “Penalties Under Affordable Care Act for Employers with 100 or More Employees Start January 1, 2015,” Article Published on KDDK.com, Author (November 2014)
• “I.R.S. Provides Additional Guidance on Affordable Care Act that Adversely Affects Some Employers,” Article Published on KDDK.com, Author (May 2014)
• “Physicians Beware: Are Your Personal Assets at Risk in a Medical Malpractice Case?” Article Published on KDDK.com, Co-Author (October 2013)
• “Health Care Reform Requires Employers to Give New Notices to Employees Beginning October 1, 2013” Article Published on KDDK.com, Author (August 2013)
• “Fiscal Cliff Avoidance- American Taxpayer Relief Act,” Article Published on KDDK.com, Author (January 2013)
• “Estate Planning under the American Taxpayer Relief Act,” Article Published on KDDK.com, Author (January 2013)
• “Fast-Approaching “Fiscal Cliff” Could Mean Higher Taxes for Most Taxpayers,” Article Published on KDDK.com, Author (November 2012)
• “Individuals – The Effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” Article Published on KDDK.com, Author (July 2012)
• “Employers and Businesses – Compliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” Article Published on KDDK.com, Author (July 2012)
• “Fundamentals of Will and Trust Drafting,” Indiana Continuing Legal Education Foundation Seminar, Presenter
• “Family Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies” Dubois County Estate Planning Council Seminar, Presenter
• “Succession Planning for Family Owned Businesses,” Evansville Business Journal, Author
• “Estate Planning,” The Catholic Foundation of Southwestern Indiana Seminar, Presenter
• “Bankruptcy and Preference Payments,” Institute of Management Accountants, Presenter
• “Basics of Bankruptcy,” Indiana Continuing Legal Education Foundation, Presenter
• “The New Property Tax Regulations For Real Property Assessments,” “The New Property Tax Appeals Procedures,” “Reassessment and the New Property Tax Regulations,” and “Appealing Property Tax Assessments,” Lorman Education Services, Presenter
• “COBRA: Questions and Answers,” Institute of Management Accountants
• “Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code,” and “QDROS: Forms and Facts You Need to Know,” Evansville Bar Association