Geoffrey G. Hemphill
Practice Focus:
Taxation
ERISA
Employee Benefits
Business Transactions
Contact Information
Norfolk Office
500 World Trade Center
Norfolk, Virginia 23510
(757) 446-8528
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Geoff is a partner with Vandeventer Black and concentrates his law practice in taxation, ERISA, employee benefits and business transactions. His taxation practice focuses on corporate taxation, limited liability company issues, international tax as well as state and local tax.
Geoff’s Benefits practice concentrates on qualified retirement plans, executive compensation and welfare benefits with an emphasis in multiemployer plans. His Business Transactions practice is geared toward closely held business issues and international transactions.
Geoff received a B.S. from Lehigh University, a J.D. from Regent University School of Law, and his LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University.
He served as a Law Clerk for Special Master Richard B. Abell of the United States Court of Federal Claims from 1995-1997. Geoff is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the United States Tax Court.
A few of Geoff’s most notable accomplishments include facilitating the financing and purchase of agricultural products in Africa for distribution in the U.S., and structuring an independent power project in Eastern Europe.
He is the author of “Life After Death of a Tax-Exempt Hospital: Creative Use of Supporting Organizations After the Sale,” Exempt Org Tax Review, June 1997, and “The Administrative Search Doctrine - Isn’t this Exactly What the Framers Were Trying to Avoid?” 5 Regent University Law Review, Spring 1995.