Meet Sterling

Sterling Busbee is a tax attorney and focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, economic development and corporate law.

Sterling's experience includes:

• • Tax planning for domestic and international companies
• • Mergers and acquisitions
• • Negotiating and drafting fee in lieu of tax (FILOT) agreements and other incentives including job    development credits and job tax credits
• • Business formation and entity structure planning, including drafting articles, bylaws and operating agreements
• • Drafting and reviewing conservation easements
• • Trust and estate planning
• • Formation and governance of charitable and nonprofit entities

• New York University, LL.M., Taxation, 2017
• University of South Carolina, J.D., cum laude, 2016
• Clemson University, B.S., Accounting, cum laude, 2013

• South Carolina, 2016
• North Carolina, 2017

• Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch Corporate Law (2023-2025), Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2023-2025) and Tax Law (2023-2025)
• Order of the Coif

• University of South Carolina School of Law Young Alumni Council, Member (2020-2023)
• South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division, Co-Chair of Professional Development Committee (2024-Present), Co-Chair of Membership Committee (2020-2023)
• Association for Corporate Growth
• Leadership Charleston, Class of 2022
• Richland County Bar Association, Advisory Committee, Young Lawyers Chair (2020-2021)
• Junior League of Charleston

• “New Deadlines for FINCEN Compliance Issued,” HSB Blog, February 21, 2025
• “Navigating FinCEN Compliance: Quickly Approaching Deadlines for Businesses formed before 2024,” HSB Blog, November 25, 2024
• “The Corporate Transparency Act – New Federal Requirements Effective January 1, 2024,” HSB Blog, January 3, 2024
• “Corporate Transparency Act,” Charleston Tax Council, November 16, 2023
• “Estate Planning in the COVID-19 Era,” HSB Blog, May 14, 2020
• “Re-Emergence of the C-Corp,” SCRA Launch & Learn Webinar, March 4, 2020
• “The Re-Emergence of the C-Corporation,” HSB 2019 Corporate Law for Accountants Seminar Series
• “Planning Under the 2017 Tax Act” (Panelist), Charlotte City Club, Charlotte, NC, April 24, 2018
• “Hot Topics for Nonprofits” (Panelist), North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, November 6, 2018