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In his 40+ years of practice, Peter Jost has developed a broad-based global practice featuring:<ul>	<li>International and domestic transactional and project matters</li>	<li>Structuring ventures that require multijurisdictional knowledge</li>	<li>Matters requiring the combination of tax, corporate, commercial, real estate, project finance, and administrative skills</li></ul>

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<li>Advising foreign and U.S. companies on the tax and business aspects of doing business in the United States and abroad.</li>
<li>Structuring foreign branch and subsidiary operations and&nbsp;negotiating international joint venture, license, franchise, partnership, power purchase, equipment,&nbsp;facility lease,&nbsp;and distributorship agreements.</li>
<li>Served as project counsel to TermoEmcali I S.C.A. E.S.P., a Colombian company organized&nbsp;to&nbsp;design, construct, finance, and operate a 233.8 megawatt electric generating facility in Cali, Colombia (1995–1997).</li>
<li>Advised the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources of the Republic of Turkey on electricity law and&nbsp; on the implementation agreements for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan crude oil pipeline (the pipeline, now completed, transports 1,000,000 barrels per day of crude oil from the Caspian region to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan in southern Turkey via the Georgia Republic) (1998–1999).</li>
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Taxation/Administrative/Legislative
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<li>Obtaining rulings from&nbsp;Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of the Treasury, including rulings on the exempt status of newly organized 501(c)(3) organizations,&nbsp;and private letter rulings, the latter&nbsp;to save tax dollars or eliminate tax exposure.</li>
<li>Assisting clients in monitoring, analyzing, and obtaining specific tax legislation.</li>
<li>Served for 22 years&nbsp;(1994–2016) as general counsel to The Student Conservation Association, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization that is the leader in linking volunteers to service on public lands.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li>Provided tax opinions in more than 300 syndications of real property located throughout the United States (1981–1985).</li>
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Real Estate/Commercial
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<li>Advised Japanese investors (Toho America Realty Inc.) on the divestiture of their commercial real estate located in Northwest Washington, D.C. (1999).</li>
<li>Served&nbsp;as counsel to the British Coal Board and advised on the divestiture of its Washington, D.C.-based real estate portfolio (which included the Watergate Complex) from 1989 to 1993.</li>
<li>Serving as special tax/real estate counsel to the Virginia Toll Road Corporation, the first non-governmental entity in the last 50 years chartered to build a privately-funded toll road in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.Assisting clients in monitoring, analyzing, and obtaining specific tax legislation.</li>
<li>Served for 22 years&nbsp;(1994–2016) as general counsel to The Student Conservation Association, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization that is the leader in linking volunteers to service on public lands.</li>
<li>Provided tax opinions in more than 300 syndications of real property located throughout the United States (1981–1985).</li>
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