Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death

Business and Corporate Law

• Mergers and Acquisitions
  The majority of the work performed by Armbrust & Brown, PLLC tax lawyers involves domestic and international transactional, entity, and estate tax planning. The work involves inbound and outbound U.S. federal income tax planning, multi-jurisdictional planning in conjunction with our clients’ other advisors, mergers and acquisitions, and general tax planning. In short, we advise clients on the tax efficient ways of structuring ongoing or yet to be created operations and transactions.
• Business Disputes
• Limited Liability Companies
  General representation of business entities from initial capitalization and organization, private placements, and venture capital investments. This representation includes formation of joint ventures, limited partnerships, limited liability companies and other entity forms as well as profit and non-profit corporations organized under the laws of California, Delaware, Nevada, Texas, Wyoming, and other states. The firm assists in planning and implementing entity and capitalization structuring and restructuring.

Employment Law

• Employment Discrimination

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  In representation of the firm’s clients, the real estate attorneys work closely with tax, environmental, construction, and labor law attorneys within the firm in structuring entities to undertake various real estate activities, analyzing environmental risks, and addressing the employment and corporate issues that arise in the course of such undertakings. Armbrust & Brown, PLLC also handles the litigation and arbitration needs of clients in real estate disputes, construction disputes, and condemnation matters, as well as lobbying before local, state, and federal governmental and regulatory entities.
• Construction Litigation
• Real Estate Transactions
  The firm’s substantial Real Estate Practice Group is able to serve our clients in all aspects of commercial real estate law. Our firm has a particular expertise in complex real estate transactions, construction, and development. Armbrust & Brown, PLLC represents owners, developers, investor groups, property managers, pension funds, insurance companies, financial institutions and other lenders, development arms of Fortune 500 companies, municipalities, river authorities, individuals, local, national, and foreign companies, municipal utility districts, and property owner associations.
• Land Use and Zoning
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  The firm represents clients in all aspects of real estate, including construction, construction loans, commercial financing, mortgage lending, acquisitions and sales of commercial real estate, leasing, and landlord-tenant matters. Examples of these developments include apartment complexes, hotels, office buildings, shopping centers, industrial sites, manufacturing facilities, mixed-use developments, condominium developments, residential and commercial subdivisions and undeveloped land, leasing and counseling regarding operational issues related to the management of properties, as well as, negotiating loan workouts, debt restructuring, and conducting foreclosure sales. We actively assist clients in forming joint ventures, general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations for the acquisition and operation of real estate. Many clients ask us to assist in various tax exempt financing and tax credit programs.
• Condominium Law
  The Master Planned Community and Condominium Practice Group of Armbrust & Brown, PLLC (the “MPC and Condo Group”) concentrates on master planned community and condominium development, from inception of the project through completion and transition to owner control.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Armbrust & Brown trial attorneys have broad experience in litigation, handling a wide variety of our clients’ disputes in state and federal court, on the trial and appellate level, and in alternate dispute resolution forums such as arbitration and mediation. As with the firm’s overall expertise, much of our litigation practice involves real estate, representing clients in disputes over acquisition and disposition of real property, land use and entitlements, commercial landlord/tenant matters, construction, mechanic’s liens, and homeowner and condominium associations. Our litigators are also skilled in handling other commercial disputes, with claims such as breach of contract, fraud, Deceptive Trade Practices Act, defamation and business disparagement, breach of fiduciary duty, and professional malpractice. In addition, our trial lawyers represent clients in catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death claims arising out of natural gas explosions, automobile and recreational vehicle accidents, products liability, and oilfield accidents, obtaining multi-million dollar recoveries for our clients in several cases.
• Auto Accidents

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Armbrust & Brown, PLLC provides a wide range of estate planning services, from the preparation of wills and disability planning documents to the utilization of highly complex family wealth preservation and asset protection techniques, including trusts and family limited partnerships. Each estate plan is customized based upon the nature and value of the assets in the estate, as well as the unique personal, family, and charitable goals and needs of the client.
• Trusts
  Armbrust & Brown, PLLC assists individual and corporate executors and trustees in fulfilling their fiduciary obligations. We advise executors and trustees on administration, asset distribution and trust funding, and the federal and state consequences of transactions regarding estates, trusts, and their beneficiaries.

Finance Law

• Foreclosure
• Tax Law
  The origin of the firm dates back to July 1, 1984, when a group of partners formed Armbrust & Brown. From 1990 to 1997, the firm served as the Austin office of a large Dallas-based law firm. In May of 1997, the firm reconstituted itself as it exists today and has enjoyed a steady and measured growth since its inception. Over the years, Armbrust & Brown has strategically added practitioners with expertise in many legal specialties, from litigation to municipal law to complex tax planning, allowing Armbrust & Brown to offer our clientele all of the advantages of a full service law firm. While we have stayed true to our Texas roots and clients, our clientele has grown with the region to include national and multi-national businesses participating in the growth that makes Austin one of the most dynamic regions in the country.