Jon D. Seawright is a shareholder in the Jackson office, and concentrates his practice in the areas of health care and general business transactional matters and federal and state corporate, partnership and exempt organization tax matters. Mr. Seawright has extensive experience in compliance and operational matters for health care joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, physician compensation models, corporate reorganizations and exempt organization matters. He regularly advises clients on various tax issues involving real estate transactions, including like-kind exchanges, tax-efficient exit strategies and issues associated with foreign investors. His practice also includes federal and state regulatory issues for health care providers, secured transactions, executive compensation structures and corporate and individual tax planning.
- Author – "Employers Subject to New Payroll Reporting Requirements in 2011," ABA Health eSource, Vol. 7 No. 6 (February 2011)
- Author – "IRS Has Success Challenging LILO/SILO Transactions," Andrews Bank and Lender Liability Litigation Reporter (January 2009)
- Author – "Health Savings Accounts: Congress Prescribes Remedy for Rising Healthcare Costs," American Health Lawyers Association Tax & Finance Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 2 (August 2004)
- Author – "Fifth Circuit Vacates Ruling in St. David’s Case: Control by Tax-Exempt Partner Required for Whole Hospital Joint Venture," American Health Lawyers Association Tax & Finance Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 1 (January 2004)
- Listed – Mid-South Rising Stars since 2008
- Listed – Mississippi Business Journal's Top 40 Under 40 Business Leaders (2011)
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Non-Profit/Charities Law (2013)
- Vice Chair – Health Law Committee of the ABA Young Lawyers Division (2006)
- Member – Planning Board for Tax Committee of the ABA Young Lawyers Division (2006)
- Member – American (Business Law, Taxation, Health Law and Young Lawyers Sections), Mississippi and Capital Area Bar Associations
- Member – American Health Lawyers Association
- Member – Baker Donelson Diversity Committee
- Chair – Baker Donelson Recruiting Committee (Jackson Office)
- Member – Board of Directors of the Mississippi Equal Justice Foundation
- Mississippi, 2001
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 2002
- New York University, LL.M. in Taxation, 2001
- University of Mississippi School of Law, J.D., 2000, cum laude
- Baylor University, B.B.A., 1997